Love is a gift, a miracle, a mystery. You are led to its threshold by your affinities, by your inclinations, and by… — Glenda Green Copy Share Image
To regulate something always requires two opposing factors. You cannot regulate by a single factor. To give an example, the traffic in… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully. — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
For myself the delay [in assuming the office of the President] may be compared with a reprieve; for in confidence I assure… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I'm honestly not sure that I've ever tried to talk as a theologian about "homosexual acts," per se. My disagreement with the… — James Alison Copy Share Image
I like writing dialog but don't think I'd be much good at a screenplay. I once had to write a treatment for… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
I have this self-conscious inclination to just say "anyone who hates it, that's cool that's fine!" — Philip Morrison Copy Share Image
Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
A small craft in the ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. The skipper's brain is the vessel's brain and he… — Tristan Jones Copy Share Image
Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind. — George A. Smith Copy Share Image
I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The distinction between feelings or inclinations on the one hand, and behavior on the other hand, is very clear. It's no sin… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
For me, and for thousands with similar inclinations, the most important passion of life is the overpowering desire to escape periodically from… — Bob Marshall Copy Share Image
There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations, in opposition… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not,… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Natural inclinations are present in things from God, who moves all things. So it is impossible for the natural inclinations of a… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Mum has always been a huge anti-war activist. She would go off to protest and get arrested. I have her passion, but… — Joan Cusack Copy Share Image
The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it. — Charlotte Lennox Copy Share Image
