While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin. — Susanna Rowson Copy Share Image
Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The conduct of a man, who studies philosophy in this careless manner, is more truly sceptical than that of any one, who… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination. — Democritus Copy Share Image
It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
“Kant finds that the ‘virtue of the heart’ is central and emphasizes the role of the understanding and concepts at the expense… — Manfred Kuehn Copy Share Image
At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
We love them [people who have same-sex attractions] as sons and daughters of God. They may have certain inclinations which are powerful… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
In view of the vast size of the occupied areas in the East the forces available for establishing security in these areas… — Alfred Jodl Copy Share Image
We must not indulge our inclinations, as we do little children, till they grow weary of the thing they are unwilling to… — Henry Scougal Copy Share Image
Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Making matters worse is people's natural inclination to be easy on themselves, judging themselves according to their good intentions-while holding others to… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I have been trying for a long time to understand God. Now I have made friends with him. To love him truly… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
For there is no business of life, no avocation whatever, which will not permit a man, who has an inclination, to give… — Daniel Albert Wyttenbach Copy Share Image
I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up… — Elizabeth Fry Copy Share Image
Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The impulses of my heart are the voice of Nature, which is never mistaken. The institutions that stand in my way are… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The Buddha never intended to make desire itself the problem. When he said craving causes suffering, he was referring not to our… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
[My mother] would have me smothered like the Princes in the Tower if I showed any inclination for being an artist. She… — Francis Meadow Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image