Angela Carter
Angela Carter

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

Charles Goodyear
Charles Goodyear

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

Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone

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

David Ricardo
David Ricardo

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.

Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix

Society during the last hundred years has been alternately perplexed and encouraged respecting the two great questions: how shall the criminal and pauper be disposed of in order to reduce crime and reform the criminal on the one hand and, on the other, to diminish pauperism and restore the pauper to useful citizenship?

Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix

The lovely daisy, so justly celebrated by European poets, is not a native of our soil; we know it well, however, by cultivation in our gardens and green houses; besides, we are disposed to remember it for the sake of those who have sung its praises in immortal verse.

George Washington
George Washington

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

Haniel Long
Haniel Long

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.

Harry Oppenheimer
Harry Oppenheimer

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

Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Cabot Lodge

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?