Inclination Quotes

Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.

We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inclination in space, and we're just in a little different altitude.

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 of every desire.

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

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 the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.

I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.

I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians.

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.

Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?

At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.

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 be close to the patient, so that if things don't work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient.

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.

I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.

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 practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.

I'm a mediator by training and inclination.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

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 people's part to want to take responsibility for it - that this must be happening because I'm a terrible person, I did something, and I'm getting repaid for it.

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

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 every where those ideas which are most present to it.

I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.