Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The vain, inconstant, rebellious disposition of the people [of Armorica], was incompatible either with freedom or servitude. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then,… — Plato 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
General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections,… — John Eudes Copy Share Image
As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children,… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Animal knowledge is metaphysically constituted by apt belief, by belief whose correctness manifests the believer's epistemic competence, a relevant disposition to get… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the species, but… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
Some brewers of Ale and Beere doe put it into their drinke to make it more heady, fit to please drunkards, who… — Matthias de l'Obel Copy Share Image
Persons in great stations have seldom their true character drawn till several years after their death. Their personal friendships and enmities must… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
the African leopard is an audacious animal, although it is ungrateful of me to say a word against him, after the way… — Mary Kingsley 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
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition ... This last act of our… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
More fundamental than religion is our basic human spirituality. We have a basic human disposition towards love, kindness and affection, irrespective of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. Unmeddling with the affairs of other nations,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when… — Mehmet Oz Copy Share Image
I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the… — Cole Younger Copy Share Image
I think my general disposition on life is finding what's funny about it. When something happens, the first thing in my mind… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
The Meaning of Mature Femininity: At the heart of mature felinity is a freeing disposition to affirm, receive, and nurture strength and… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is… — William Cavendish Copy Share Image
It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of… — Plautus Copy Share Image
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms, and to… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
There are five signs of righteousness: a gentle disposition and a soft heart, shedding tears of regret, ascetism and not caring about… — Shaqiq al-Balkhi Copy Share Image
Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our… — William Henry Ashley Copy Share Image
One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet,… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
There are certain times when most people are in a disposition of being informed, and 'tis incredible what a vast good a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary… — William John Wills Copy Share Image
I discovered that success has very little to do with education or race or disposition; it has more to do with principles… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie! — John Lydon Copy Share Image