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Quotes About Disposition

Her friendliness and openness were quite at odds with her rather forbidding appearance.
~ Storm Constantine
The same thing that had happened with the flowers was happening with my longing: once I held it in my hands, I didn't know where to put it.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
~ Daniel Boone
y con ningua otra he hablado nunca sobre todo lo imaginable con mayor intensidad y, por tanto, disposición para comprender y, por tanto, he podido pensar con mayor intensidad y disposición para comprender sobre todo lo imaginable, y nadie me ha dejado nunca mirar nunca dentro de sí más profundamente y a nadie he dejado mirar nunca dentro de mí más profunda y desconsideradamente y cada vez más desconsiderada y profundamente.
~ Thomas Bernhard
Tess seemed to Clare to exhibit a dignified largeness both of disposition and physique, an almost regnant power, possibly because he knew that at that preternatural time hardly any woman so well endowed in person as she was likely to be walking in the open air within the boundaries of his horizon; very few in all England. Fair women are usually asleep at mid-summer dawns. She was close at hand, and the rest were nowhere.
~ Thomas Hardy
El mayor descubrimiento de mi generación es que los seres humanos pueden alterar su vida modificando su disposición de ánimo… Si cambias tu forma de pensar, puedes cambiar tu vida».
~ Ken Robinson
Perhaps it was because his hair was a shade too dark that his schoolmates did not call him "Red," and perhaps it was because of something else. At least four of his schoolmates, now living, agree that he possessed an unusually quick temper and a disposition to attack with waspish fury on small provocation
~ C. Vann Woodward
We mean by collective unconscious, a certain psychic disposition shaped by the forces of heredity; from it consciousness has developed. In the physical structure of the body we find traces of earlier stages of evolution, and we may expect the human psyche also to conform in its make-up to the law of phylogeny.
~ C.G. Jung
Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
~ George Crane
But I had no gift for making friends, although I was often attracted by people the very opposite of myself; especially by little, clever, quick, but not too familiar men; but even if they were disposed to make advances, a miserable shyness and stiffness of manner on my part, that I could not help, would raise a barrier of ice between us.
~ George du Maurier
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
~ George Eliot
She possesses what someone once described to me as all the unlovable virtues.
~ Isaac Asimov
He disposes Doom who hath suffered him.
~ Emily Dickinson
Character is long-standing habit.
~ Plutarch
Developing a cheerful disposition can permit an atmosphere wherein one's spirit can be nurtured and encouraged to blossom and bear fruit. Being pessimistic and negative about our experiences will not enhance the quality of our lives.
~ Barbara W. Winder
Courage is the right disposition toward fear.
~ Anonymous
In the end it may well be that Britain will be more honoured by the historians for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.
~ David Ormsby Gore
The things people discard tell more about them than the things they keep.
~ Hilda Lawrence
I don't like to collect music. I don't want it if only I liked it.
~ Seungri
Whether it's his training or his natural disposition, Deacon is charming. The kind of charming that makes you feel like you're the only person in the world who matters. Until you don't anymore.
~ Suzanne Young
I have never in my life been the type to give things away. Sorry, just not my style.
~ Montel Vontavious Porter
A person's disposition should serve as a narrative of their lives not the pigmentation of their skin.
~ Henry Johnson Jr, Liberian Son
Your mental attitude is the most dependable key to your personality.
~ Napoleon Hill