“...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
Men judge by the complexion of the sky The state and inclination of the day: — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence. — George Michael Copy Share Image
Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I always say that as church falls into demise, we still have the inclination to congregate whether by a night of music… — Daniel Lanois Copy Share Image
The goal of maximizing the welfare of all may be better achieved by an ethic that accepts our inclinations and harnesses them… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business.… — George Etherege Copy Share Image
I've got a twin sister who's an artist and growing up I was always "the loud one." She's not actually quiet at… — Sue Tompkins Copy Share Image
By circumstance and perhaps also by inclination, I think in complete intellectual isolation. To expect others to help me think seems to… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan - this is a personal preference - I'm not a fan of tour-de-force writing. I admire it, but… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I had no inclination to perform as a kid. I was a shy child - I always had my nose in a… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
The reality of today, different as it is from the reality of my society one hundred years ago, is and can be… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I believe that the creative impulse is natural in all human beings, and that it is particularly powerful in children unless it… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Firmly believe that the Lord is at all times everything to you. During prayer He is the power and the fulfillment in… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Pure devotional service fries the seeds of material inclinations in our heart. — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy. — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians. — Dalton McGuinty Copy Share Image
The moment someone asks you to do something you don't have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability. — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Brands must make use of the inclination of consumers to be persuaded by friends. — Martin Lindstrom Copy Share Image
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. — Eustace Budgell Copy Share Image
