Disposed Quotes

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 us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.

Having achieved such signal successes in the east, Russia and Roumania being both disposed of, the German leaders planned a campaign designed to crush Italy.

Liars are always most disposed to swear.

Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

We should always be disposed to believe that that which appears white is really black, if the hierarchy of the Church so decides.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

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 others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.

The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.

Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.

I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing, that you will be sympathetic with us in our misfortunes.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits.

We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge.

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 of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved.

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

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 the Christian religion.

Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?

I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.