I'm not even sure if empathy is an act, it could be a…

Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal…

— Joseph Addison

You can't let your personal disposition be dictated by the world around you.

— Greg Graffin

All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which…

— John Stuart Mill

And I saw for the first time how, despite the isolation of our own lives, we are always connected to our ancestors; our bodies…

— Alyson Richman

If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the…

— Oswald Chambers

There are petty-minded people who cannot endure to be reminded of their ignorance because, since they are usually quite blind to all things, quite…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a disposition of…

— Charles James

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.

— Martha Washington

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and…

— Giacomo Casanova

Being a Catholic, I was drawn to the mystery of the Latin and the smoke and the mirrors and all of that. That part…

— Susan Sarandon

Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber, the blessed…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes…

— Phyllis Bottome

The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to…

— Sigmund Freud

With a basic understanding of all humans as brothers and sisters, we can appreciate the usefulness of different systems and ideologies that can accommodate…

— Dalai Lama