Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Ive had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me. Or it did, anyway. I think Ive… — Kevin Corrigan Copy Share Image
There's an inclination to get on the inside of Jesus' psyche, and I think that's a deep mistake because it assumes that… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not… — Wolf Blitzer Copy Share Image
But in almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics, without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There is another innovation at Harvard which I think made a tremendous difference and that is the decision to try to recruit… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
Battles, revolutions, pestilence, famine, and death, are never the effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure… — David Hume Copy Share Image
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
We see that God has implanted in all things a natural desire to exist with the fullest measure of existence that is… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
Remembering that Eratosthenes of Cyrene, employing mathematical theories and geometrical methods, discovered from the course of the sun, the shadows cast by… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
About what mainly constituted what you ask, it was something other. It was just a certain inclination to meet people. And as… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Take steadily some one sin, which seems to stand out before thee, to root it out, by God's grace, and every fibre… — Edward Bouverie Pusey Copy Share Image
...night possessed us and the shadow of death encompassed us, for we had fallen into sin and lost the power of sight… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
“Since holiness is the main thing that excites, draws, and governs all gracious affections, it is no wonder that all such affections… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
I have nothing against a community that is made up of people who are Polish, or who are Czechoslovakians, or who are… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The good designer aims at a perfect fusion of the various considerations which enter into his design. He aims at an untortured… — Leo Lionni Copy Share Image
I am in Paris. Yes ma'am , I made it back. I came up from Berlin, stopped here ten days, fought a… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
This system in which a child is constantly moving objects with his hands and actively exercising his senses, also takes into account… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Before writing a single note of music, and even before the spotting session, I find it best to sit down with the… — John Keltonic Copy Share Image
Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
The natural inclination of man is to rely solely upon himself and to ignore the purpose of his existence as well as… — Delbert L. Stapley Copy Share Image
The path to a better future goes directly through our public schools. I have nothing against private schools, parochial schools and home… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Opportunities are not often wanting where inclination goes before. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“...my inclination toward an action always plummets in direct correlation to someone's demand. Call me contrary.” — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies. — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Man’s will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man’s inclinations are always and invariably away from God. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own. — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
Though every human being on the planet has an inclination for leadership, most of us do not have the courage to cultivate… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image