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
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
Happiness is less regulated by external circumstances than inward enjoyment. Whoever is happy in the satisfaction of himself feels imperturbable felicity; but… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
What acquaintance have the people at large with the arena of political rectitude, with the connections of kingdoms, the resources of national… — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
Whenever a great physician treats diseases, he has to be mentally calm and his disposition firm. He should not give way to… — Sun Simiao Copy Share Image
The art of the writer, like that of the player, is attained by slow degrees. The power of distinguishing and discriminating comick… — Samuel Johnson 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
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
And I saw for the first time how, despite the isolation of our own lives, we are always connected to our ancestors;… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary… — George Will Copy Share Image
Kant's system of duties constitutes a Doctrine of Virtue because the duties also indicate what kinds of attitudes, dispositions and feelings are… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Any one whose disposition leads him to attach more weight to unexplained difficulties than to the explanation of facts will certainly reject… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
No one is so rich that he does not need another's help; no one so poor as not to be useful in… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Every man cannot have his way in all things. If his opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
More important than innate disposition, objective experience, and environment is the subjective evaluation of these. Furthermore, this evaluation stands in a certain,… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
It's really not possible for someone to imagine himself/herself as a subject in the process of becoming without having at the same… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. It is impossible to rightly… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Golf is a particularly severe strain upon the amiability of the average person's temper, and in no other game, except bridge, is… — Emily Post Copy Share Image