“The only way to be inclined to write is to write to your inclination.” — Terry Lander Copy Share Image
The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations. — Moliere Copy Share Image
I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations. — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . . — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
“Break free from the binding robes of passion that feels like a lump in your heart, perform that surgery today, and you'll… — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
History unravels; circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story… — Mary Augusta Ward 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
I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
If two angels were sent down from heaven,--one to conduct an empire, and the other to sweep a street,--they would feel no… — John Newton 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
Consider the standard two-person married couple. ... They will share a VCR, a microwave, etc. This is not a matter of ideology… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Your natural inclination is to preach and to warn other travellers of snags in the path, but isn't it better to signal… — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any… — Immanuel Kant 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
