Inclination Quotes

221 Inclination quotes by 188 unique authors

Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind. — Gautama Buddha
I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians. — Dalton McGuinty
The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is of course the… — William C. Bryant
The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may… — W. Somerset Maugham
It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest… — Mary Wortley Montagu
When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much… — Moses Mendelssohn
It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs. — David Sylvian
Human beings go to church. The guy in the front dressed in black is the guy you defer to. He is in charge of the… — Frederick Lenz
So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one… — Mary Augusta Ward
If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't clear to you, there's a very big inclination on… — Sean Young
Architecture was, or is, a kind of hobby, an inclination I have to fiddling around and building things. Putting up shelves or cupboards, or making… — Gerhard Richter
These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination. — Democritus
It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they… — Edmund Burke
Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to,… — Joseph Butler
My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to… — Wolf Blitzer
First inclination is to become a monk and leave the situation. — Young MC
Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone's parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone's child, and love… — Criss Jami
Hitler ... lacked the [inclination] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which mesmerized the mob… — John Keegan
Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of… — Michel de Montaigne
What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if no one know… — William Hazlitt
We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it. — Robert Genn
The inclination of my life...has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways. — Walt Disney
Some souls attain enlightenment. No one knows why. You could say it is individual inclination. I'm not convinced that's the case. — Frederick Lenz
I don't think people are reacting primarily to the danger of the sport. There are many other activities that are truly dangerous that we have… — Jonathan Gottschall

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