She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
What matters is not your outward appearance. . . but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in. — Saint Peter Copy Share Image
Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Hiding order beneath the cloak of disorder is simply a question of subdivision; concealing courage under a show of timidity presupposes a… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
To attempt to commit the Church to social and political programs may be a short cut . . to escape from the… — J. H. Oldham Copy Share Image
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if,… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“Some people are like gravity; they draw you into a room with a hop in your step and a smile on your… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
There are two very natural propensities which we may distinguish in the most virtuous and liberal dispositions, the love of pleasure and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There are petty-minded people who cannot endure to be reminded of their ignorance because, since they are usually quite blind to all… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of… — Samuel George Morton Copy Share Image
If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Staff officers of inharmonious disposition, irrespective of their ability, must be removed. A staff cannot function unless it is a united family. — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Character refers to dispositions and habits that determine the way that person normally responds to desires, fears, challenges, opportunities, failures and successes. — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Battle not with Hello Kitty lest ye become Hello Kitty; and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition - and perchance to some excess - I… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The choice of opening, whether to aim for quiet or risky play, depends not only on the style of a player, but… — Efim Geller Copy Share Image
Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations...In democratic countries knowledge of how… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We must distinguish between genes that cause physical characteristics, like the color of your eyes or hair, over which you have no… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
He has as yet no perfect love, whose disposition towards men depends on what they are like, loving one and despising another… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Obama can't change his cool disposition, though it would be nice if he lost the vaguely grudging air he gives off that… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either… — Louis Berkhof Copy Share Image
When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision… — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
