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Quotes About Disposition

She was a sour-sass soul with a rubbery face.
~ Gregory Maguire
People have an inborn disposition that's set within a certain range, but they can boost themselves to the top of their happiness range or push themselves down to the bottom of their happiness range by their actions.
~ Gretchen Rubin
Lively once, expansive and affectionate, in growing older she had become (after the fashion of wine that, exposed to air, turns to vinegar) ill-tempered, grumbling, irritable. She
~ Gustave Flaubert
Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations.
~ William Henry Ashley
Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a disposition towards criminal activity.
~ Daniel Woodrell
Mean comedy is not really something that I personally gravitate towards or something that I do.
~ Kristen Wiig
A thing's innate disposition does not lie.
~ Said Nursi
You like her." "Don't you?" "I don't dislike her." "Hell, boy, for you that's marriage.
~ Shelly Laurenston
The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man...it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.
~ Sigmund Freud
A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger.
~ Rene Descartes
Oh, Lady Maccon, I am unreservedly in love with her. That black hair, that sweet disposition, those capital hats.
~ Gail Carriger
Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Those who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
~ Max Beerbohm
Era nato buono, il che se ti capita è una virtù.
~ Bernard Malamud
Similarly, the problem of the rights of the state in the disposition of inheritances left by individuals presents social aspects of the first importance.
~ Rene Cassin
I'm not cute at all. I'm a very cranky person.
~ Sue Grafton
There was very little about her face and figure that was in any way remarkable, but it was the sort of face which, when animated by conversation or laughter, is completely transformed. She had a lovely disposition, a quick mind and a fondness for the comical. She was always very ready to smile and, since a smile is the most becoming ornament that any lady can wear, she had been known upon occasion to outshine women who were acknowledged beauties in three countries.
~ Susanna Clarke
I believe that one of the most critical factors in the transition to becoming a conscious high performer is the degree to which your relationship to your pursuit stays in harmony with your unique disposition.
~ Josh Waitzkin
The bowlers, men and women both, were of that pastime's typical bent—hefty, of a tribal disposition and with themselves well pleased.
~ Joy Williams
The bowlers, men and women both, were of that pastime's typical bent—hefty, of a tribal disposition and with themselves well pleased. After they released the ball they held the afterward of their poses for a vanity of time.
~ Joy Williams
Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.
~ Judith Butler
A virtue is a disposition which is central to the person, to whom he or she is, a way we standardly think of character.
~ Julia Annas
Iris is not pleasant to live with when she is in ill humor and Daisy is not pleasant to live with when she is in good humor.
~ Julia Quinn
termagant tendencies?
~ Julia Quinn