Disposed Quotes

164 Disposed quotes by 121 unique authors

...these things become the norm: that some homeless people die of cold on the streets is not news. In contrast, a ten point drop on… — Pope Francis
The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in… — H. L. Mencken
She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, . . . 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too! — Charles Dickens
Today children are disposed of because there is no food or because they are killed before being born – children are discarded. The elderly are… — Pope Francis
The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear. — Charles James
And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your Philosophers give us… — Benjamin Franklin
Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and… — Thomas B. Macaulay
In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than… — David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure.… — William Shakespeare
It is true that water will flow indifferently to east and west, but will it flow equally well up and down? Human nature is disposed… — Mencius
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community. — Baron de Montesquieu
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed. — Seneca the Younger
The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed… — Wilhelm Ostwald
As president of the largest Jewish organization, I disposed of budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars; I directed thousands of employees, and all this,… — Nahum Goldmann
We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads… — Tom Baker
Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None… — H. L. Mencken
The compelling thing about making art—or making anything, I suppose—is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance… — Audrey Niffenegger
Re: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are colours in the… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men. — H. L. Mencken
Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side. — George Eliot
It is observed at sea that men are never so much disposed to grumble and mutiny as when least employed. Hence an old captain, when… — Samuel Smiles
Take, O Lord, and receive my entire liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will. All that I am and all that I possess… — Ignatius Loyola
People can pass thirty nights in dancing and no one complains about it, but if they watch through a single Christmas night they cough and… — Saint Francis de Sales
You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends,… — Rachel Cusk
I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is… — Patrick Henry

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