Disposition Quotes

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens.

My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

As a person who is not confrontational by disposition I tend to see that the quality of being confrontational is a positive attribute.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.