Disposes Quotes
28 quotes by 26 authors
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Man has become a superman ... because he not only disposes oinnate, physical forces, but because he is in command ... olatent forces in nature…
— Albert Schweitzer
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The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and…
— Samuel Johnson
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At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark…
— Thomas Merton
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Man proposes, but God disposes.
— Thomas a Kempis
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Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.
— Don Aitkin
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The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it-right or wrong-may be given.
— Susanne Katherina Langer
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How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man who is condemned to it,…
— Andre Breton
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The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross…
— Watchman Nee
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Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and…
— Eliphas Levi
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Man proposes, God disposes.
— Plautus
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A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.
— Theodore White
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Consensus politics is a cyclical thing-in order to accumulate power, one must dispose of it, and as one disposes of it, one must accumulate more…
— Tom Wicker
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Man proposes, and God disposes.
— Ludovico Ariosto
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Heredity proposes and development disposes.
— Peter Medawar
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In life, man proposes, God disposes.
— Aldous Huxley
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Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be…
— Joseph Addison
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The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action…
— Plutarch
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Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health,…
— John Ruskin
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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer;…
— Jonathan Edwards
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Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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