Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
Can I brush your hair?” she asked as she led the way, her disposition doing a 180 on a dime. Kids. Can’t… — Darynda Jones 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
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For the spiritual efficacy of the Sacrament doth not depend upon the nature of the thing received, supposing we received what our… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your… — George Eads Copy Share Image
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. — Edmund Burke 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
For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most –… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure. — David Ambrose Copy Share Image
During intervals of humanity, some disposition has been manifested to permit the return of those who have never offended, who have been… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
I want to feel my own nothingness, I want to give myself up in absolute resignation to God, to lie prostrate and… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Be the light in the dark, be the calm in the storm and be at peace while at war. — Michael Dolan Copy Share Image
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is,… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
“Do What Thou Wilt; because men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur… — François Rabelais Copy Share Image