Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
As the malicious disposition of mankind is too well known, and the cruel pleasure which they take in destroying the reputation of… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
One's appearance bespeaks dignity corresponding to the depth of his character. One's concentrated effort, serene attitude, taciturn air, courteous disposition, thoroughly polite… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
Most of the early Christian writers thought the text "I and my Father are one," was to be understood of an unity… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
The good or evil we confer on others very often, I believe, recoils on ourselves; for as men of a benign disposition… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis , because it… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. Some people have something in their disposition. Maybe they were born… — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
“The child brings with him into the world, not character, but disposition. He has tendencies which may need only to be strengthened,… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
The aggressive incoherence of our common surroundings can be described as entropy made visible. The way we have disposed things on the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Perhaps myself the first, at some expense of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Consider the generosity of our Savior: what He acquired by dying becomes ours by eating. As often as we receive this Sacrament… — Louis of Granada Copy Share Image
A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
That's just my disposition - to create a situation where you have to come up with something. — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Of all of men's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than love. Love will fight no-love every inch of the way. — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition? — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
However benevolent may be the intentions of Providence, they do not always advance the happiness of the individual. Providence has always higher… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Whatever the Holy Spirit prompts a true Christian to do for the glory of God, He allures him to do in a… — Charles Seymour Robinson Copy Share Image
So, what genetic disposition do you need to be a CFO? Essentially, you need to be miserable, you need to be the… — Chris Liddell Copy Share Image
“I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.” — Martha Washington Copy Share Image
If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would… — Nathaniel Smith Copy Share Image
A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
When the meal was over we all had a quiet rest in our rooms and I meditated on the race. This is… — Gordon Pirie Copy Share Image
“Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he… — Plato Copy Share Image
Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Accurate and just reasoning is the only catholic remedy, fitted for all persons and all dispositions; and is alone able to subvert… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits,… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image