Disposed Quotes

164 quotes by 121 authors

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetitesâ€¦in proportion as they are more… — Edmund Burke
It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who… — Susanna Clarke
Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that… — Alexandre Dumas
As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would… — Charlotte Bronte
We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I would rather see that impulse directed into the… — Stephen Fry
A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are humble desires. Their… — Jonathan Edwards
There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in… — Leo Tolstoy
Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded… — Neil Gaiman
Have you finally grown so jealous of my impeccable fashion sense that you've decided to have me disposed of? — Brandon Sanderson
There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of… — Anne Bronte
Advertising tends to be most effective in jogging finally into action those people who are well-enough disposed towards a product, but have not yet got… — Stephen King
Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of. — H. L. Mencken
Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing. — Aristotle
[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make… — Claude Bernard
Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents. I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and other… — Charles Goodyear
Were I disposed to consider the comparative merit of each of them [facts or theories in medical practice], I should derive most of the evils… — Benjamin Rush
A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only… — R. H. Tawney
Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed that… — Niccolo Machiavelli

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