As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive… — John Hall Copy Share Image
Oh, Lady Maccon, I am unreservedly in love with her. That black hair, that sweet disposition, those capital hats. — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both the parties who… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
A happy disposition is largely a disposition to make others happy. One life permeates all things, and there is no corner of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of… — Nicolas Steno Copy Share Image
O my Savior...teach me to pray; implant in me all the dispositions needful for the prayer of the Holy Spirit…Of what use… — Jean Grou Copy Share Image
Bush had expertise in one thing: How to run a Presidential campaign. He understands campaigns and Presidential politics. He has no interest… — John Dean Copy Share Image
Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
There are seeds of happiness in every soul. Our mental attitude and dispositions constitute the environment in which these seeds germinate. There… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Walking companions, like heroes, are difficult to pluck out of the crowd of acquaintances. Good dispositions, ready wit, friendly conversation serve well… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
You may or may not be aware of it, but you have a dreaming nature. You inherited this part of your disposition… — Dutch Sheets Copy Share Image
There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but… — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Copy Share Image
Of what use the friendliest disposition even, if there are no hours given to Friendship, if it is forever postponed to unimportant… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The Temper Trap's 'Sweet Disposition' is an invigorating song. It's my mental cue to let go of stress, disconnect from my career… — Mylene Dinh-Robic Copy Share Image
It seems appropriate that the author of '1984' was a British citizen. George Orwell must have seen how easily the great British… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
A frequent intercourse and intimate connection between two persons make them so like, that not only their dispositions are moulded like each… — Pope Agapetus I Copy Share Image
You will be astonished to find how the whole mental disposition of your children changes with advancing years. A young child and… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I have a certain temperament, a disposition that I think lends itself to not playing outside the lines that much. But I… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Order or disorder depends on organisation and direction; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on tactical dispositions. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be... The natural disposition is always to believe. It… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
A name with meaning could bring up a child, Taking the child out of the parents' hands. Better a meaningless name, I… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We must remain, in a word, in an intellectual disposition which seems paradoxical, but which, in my opinion, represents the true mind… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by… — Anne Catherine Emmerich Copy Share Image
Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the… — Rene Cassin Copy Share Image
