Inclination Quotes

She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.

Wherever there's capitalism there's this inclination toward simplicity. There's also a human need to process complicated things by turning them into something else.

When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.

It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.

My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.

It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate.

It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.

Being a nice girl from the Mid-West, my inclination is always to give in and say yes because I want people to like me.

I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.

For there is no business of life, no avocation whatever, which will not permit a man, who has an inclination, to give a little time every day to the studies of his youth.

I don't write poetry for the page because my inclination in that area is satisfied by songwriting. "Ornamental Hermit" was a comparatively effortless song to write, which is rare for me.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

Opportunities are not often wanting where inclination goes before.

The ordinary manner of spending their time, is the only way of judging of people's inclination and genius.

Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.

[My mother] would have me smothered like the Princes in the Tower if I showed any inclination for being an artist. She thought all artists little better than lunatics.

There is an art, a science to gaining power. There is a natural force or inclination in all of our beings to accumulate power. The problem that we come into is conditioning.

Some souls attain enlightenment. No one knows why. You could say it is individual inclination. I'm not convinced that's the case.

I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.

Russia's inclination toward authoritarianism undoubtedly strengthened the leaders in Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Kazakhstan, as they are afraid of normal democratic procedures.

My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.

Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.

Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice.

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.

parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.

Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.

As our inclinations, so our opinions.

He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.

I don't think people are reacting primarily to the danger of the sport. There are many other activities that are truly dangerous that we have no inclination to ban.

anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on sleeping soundly

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.

There's often a natural inclination to want more.

Ive had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me. Or it did, anyway. I think Ive gotten over it. It came as naturally to me as wanting to act.

I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned.

It's unfair how the kids who are starving for attention tended to be so annoying that people had no inclination to give it to them.

My natural inclination is to think in scenes. So that's how I write, and the issue for me is usually: what to compress for speed.

Being open source meant that I could work on the technical side (along with lots of other people), and others who had the interest and inclination could start up companies around it.

Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.

The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.

Duty is whatever opposes inclination.

In any show with a character that you really love, one inclination is to cure them of all their flaws but you remember that you like those flaws.

I hate the very human inclination towards insensitivity

Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.

For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it.

History unravels; circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled.

Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.

Preaching means to awaken the real inclination to serve God.

You know, I definitely have an inclination to work in the public sector.