Disposition Quotes

376 quotes by 264 authors

The individual woman is required . . . a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her… — Jeannette Rankin
With a basic understanding of all humans as brothers and sisters, we can appreciate the usefulness of different systems and ideologies that can accommodate different… — Dalai Lama
What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds.… — Berthold Auerbach
Manufacturing establishments not only occasion a positive augmentation of the produce and revenue of the society . . . they contribute essentially to rendering them… — Alexander Hamilton
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought… — Rebecca West
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as… — William Hazlitt
I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition,… — George Eads
People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. Some people have something in their disposition. Maybe they were born too mean, or… — Dakota Fanning
For me, it's owning the fact that I have a sensitive disposition along with a rampant imagination that makes up stories and convinces me they're… — Zosia Mamet
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men… — Claude Adrien Helvetius
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. — Edmund Burke
Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations...In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true,… — Thomas Jefferson
Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a… — Leonardo da Vinci
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side. — George Eliot
A sunny disposition is worth more than [a monetary] fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind like the body… — Andrew Carnegie
Innate sensuousness rarely has any desire for accuracy, no desire for precise information. It basks in sunshine, bathes in color, dwells in a sense of… — Theodore Dreiser
The poet is never inspired, because he is the master of that which appears to others as inspiration. He does not wait for inspiration to… — Raymond Queneau
When the meal was over we all had a quiet rest in our rooms and I meditated on the race. This is the time when… — Gordon Pirie
I want to feel my own nothingness, I want to give myself up in absolute resignation to God, to lie prostrate and passive at His… — Thomas Chalmers

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