Inclination Quotes

221 Inclination quotes by 188 unique authors

My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto loyally. — J.R.R. Tolkien
I have nothing against a community that is made up of people who are Polish, or who are Czechoslovakians, or who are French Canadians or… — Jimmy Carter
A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to begin, can foretell… — Stephen Leacock
Being a nice girl from the Mid-West, my inclination is always to give in and say yes because I want people to like me. — Cindy Crawford
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. — Daniel Defoe
I was mainly raised by a working mum who didn't have much time or inclination for making food. So I had three or four basic… — Paloma Faith
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. — Thomas Hobbes
There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find… — David Hume
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be… — Holbrook Jackson
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. — Samuel Johnson
You know, I definitely have an inclination to work in the public sector. — Rashida Jones
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination. — James Joyce
Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole… — Anne Lamott
How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't? — Daniel Day-Lewis
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. — Reinhold Niebuhr
Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to… — Henri Nouwen
In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to… — Mehmet Oz
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction… — Pope John Paul II
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control. — Steven Pinker
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice. — Plautus
Taste may change, but inclination never. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so. — George Saunders
If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law,… — Sonia Sotomayor
In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does… — Alexis de Tocqueville
My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well. — Gary Vaynerchuk

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