Disposed Quotes

164 Disposed quotes by 121 unique authors

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. — Thomas Jefferson
A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of… — Joseph Lancaster
The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches… — Haniel Long
Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few… — James Surowiecki
In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed. — Henry David Thoreau
Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem… — George Washington
Thus is Man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live, not onely like other creatures in divers elements, but in divided… — Thomas Browne
she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change… — Jane Austen
That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to… — Tom Robbins
My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which… — Robert E. Lee
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be… — Anne Bronte
He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.... — Jane Austen
We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves. — William Hazlitt
There was a rock in front of my hut, a tall, gray rock. By its looks it seemed to be well-disposed toward me... — Knut Hamsun
When we are green, still half-created, we believe that our dreams are rights, that the world is disposed to act in our best interests, and… — Tobias Wolff
Most mainline Protestant churches are, to one degree or another, post-Christian. If they no longer seem disposed to converting the unbelieving to Christ, they can… — Mark Steyn
Don't "pole-vault over mouse truds" - by the time you've discussed the many options available to you, the problem itself could have been long behind… — Wayne Dyer
He was having more fun than a barrelful of monkeys.* *Several years earlier Spider had actually been tremendously disappointed by a barrelful of monkeys. It… — Neil Gaiman
The body is so easily damaged, so easily disposed of, water and chemicals is all it is, hardly more to it than a jellyfish drying… — Margaret Atwood
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
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…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

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