Inclination Quotes

221 Inclination quotes by 188 unique authors

For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it... — Patrick O'Brian
The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it’s really a gift. A world that… — Chris Van Allsburg
The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I think that life is a bit like a biscuit that you only get one bite at. The best thing is to just go for… — Georgia Byng
There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination… — Charles Dickens
I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what… — Jane Austen
The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary… — Nathaniel Branden
Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or… — Jonathan Edwards
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment. — George Eliot
People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive. Life looks intelligently… — Michael Shermer
Karma is the beginning of knowledge. Next is patience. Patience is very important. The strong are the patient ones, Anjin-san. patience means holding back your… — James Clavell
It only meant that my natural inclination was to draw my "energy" from within instead of seeking it outside myself, plus my mom was an… — Sue Monk Kidd
In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it. — Charles Dickens
It is not difficult to deprive the great majority of independent thought. But the minority who will retain an inclination to criticize must also be… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Christ also takes from us all inclination or power to boast of our national prestige. To me, it is prestige enough to be a Christian--to… — Charles Spurgeon
If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married. — Elizabeth I
He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great deal… — James Boswell
Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition. — Michel de Montaigne
But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool? — Charles Portis
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. — Edsger Dijkstra
I hate the very human inclination towards insensitivity — Megan McCafferty
He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt no inclination to be alone and avoided it… — Stefan Zweig
It's unfair how the kids who are starving for attention tended to be so annoying that people had no inclination to give it to them. — Lauren Myracle
It is the plight of man. And while the blame lies partly on the river " Lotus gestures towards the dark waters before us "most… — Alyson Noel
Bones glanced behind me, with just the barest inclination of his head. I walked away from him, muttering, "Don't worry, you don't need to have… — Jeaniene Frost

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