Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Wherever thou goest, whatever thou dost at home, or abroad, in the field, or at church, do all in a desire of… — William Law Copy Share Image
The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A person with homosexual inclinations, where they're kept under control, or, if yielded to are appropriately repented of, is eligible to do… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
There are certain irregularities which are not the subject of criminal law. But when the criminal law happens to be auxiliary to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Our life is managed from behind the scenes: we are actors in dramas that we cannot interpret. Of almost no decisive event… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states,… — Robert Fortune Copy Share Image
Naturally we all have an inclination to command, and a great aversion to obey; and yet it is certain that it is… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the… — Democritus Copy Share Image
There is good reason to make our decision now to serve the Lord. On this Sunday morning, when the complications and temptations… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
I suppose that's a question most often asked of me by people who would like to make a positive contribution towards a… — John Denver Copy Share Image
I also came to see that liberalism's superficial optimism concerning human nature caused it to overlook the fact that reason is darkened… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The soul seeks God by faith, not by the reasonings of the mind and labored efforts, but by the drawings of love;… — Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Copy Share Image
There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity… But in order to try… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If two angels were sent down from heaven -one to conduct an empire and the other to sweep the streets -they would… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In those days I had various strong inclinations, for wine, gambling and cockfighting, and the society of gypsies, together with a passion… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want… — Peter MacKay Copy Share Image
I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I thought some of the stories were neat; I liked some of the liturgy and some of the songs. If you're a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Man is a willful and covetous animal, who makes use of his intellect to satisfy his inclinations, but who cares nothing for… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Her nomination for vice president in 2008 represents the most desperate inclinations of the Republican Party. In two hundred years, I suspect… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I really wanted to be allowed to the [writer's] table. So it makes me happy to be at the table. It sounds… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Spirituality is the master key of the Indian mind. It is this dominant inclination of India which gives character to all the… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The belief that value judgments are not subject, in the last analysis, to rational control, encourages the inclination to make irresponsible assertions… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, Trump has showed hateful inclinations toward many, many groups. Many groups. The most obvious: undocumented immigrants and Muslims. His comments that… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
![“I really wanted to be allowed to the [writer's] table. So it makes me happy to be at the table. It sounds a little shallow, but if I imagine the shadow life, where I didn't get that chance, and all the ways my negative inclinations would have bloomed if I hadn't gotten the attention, but also the…” quote by George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/82e/george-saunders-317_attention_i-really-wanted-to-be-allowed-to-the-wri_2675640.jpg)
