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Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice. -- George Eliot
Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare. -- Erin Morgenstern
Taste may change, but inclination never. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
My first inclination was toward flying and being a pilot. -- Kevin A. Ford
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination. -- James Joyce
I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior. -- Joe Wilson
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice. -- Plautus
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -- Eustace Budgell
The moment someone asks you to do something you don't have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability. -- Brene Brown
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. -- Charles Baudelaire
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
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
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. -- Pope John Paul II
The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking is just built into our nature. -- Michael Shermer
I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds. -- Mikhail Bakunin
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. -- Rowan Atkinson
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. -- David Hume
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. -- Edmund Burke
The spiritual quest is not some added benefit to our life, something you embark on if you have the time and inclination. We are spiritual beings on an earthly journey. Our spirituality makes up our beingness. -- John Bradshaw
Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder. -- Pope Benedict XVI
I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects. -- Sufjan Stevens
Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth. -- Robert Fortune
My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics. -- Benazir Bhutto
My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My characters have dark sides; they aren't the god-fearing characters. It wasn't a conscious decision. I'm a very lazy and emotional person who connects with the common man. -- Madhur Bhandarkar
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 him, the more we will be able to sense that his love, which is perfect love, casts out all our fears. -- Henri Nouwen
I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always. -- Abraham Lincoln
Duty is whatever opposes inclination. -- Mason Cooley
Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I have no inclination to seek attention. -- John Scarlett
I'm a mediator by training and inclination. -- Joan Blades
I am myself by inclination an investigator. -- Immanuel Kant
I hate the very human inclination towards insensitivity -- Megan McCafferty
Opportunities are not often wanting where inclination goes before ... -- Elizabeth Gaskell
parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius. -- Hannah More
Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God. -- R. C. Sproul
A military life has ever comported with my inclination. -- George Stoneman
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything. -- Vikram Seth
You have however within you an inclination towards completeness. -- Sri Aurobindo
Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread. -- Jimmy Carter
The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization. -- Sigmund Freud
Preaching means to awaken the real inclination to serve God. -- Radhanath Swami
It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs. -- David Sylvian
First inclination is to become a monk and leave the situation. -- Young MC
History unravels; circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled. -- Penelope Lively
The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man. -- Francis Bacon
...evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire") -- William S. Wilson
Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost. -- Sena Jeter Naslund
At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math. -- William Standish Knowles
You know, I definitely have an inclination to work in the public sector. -- Rashida Jones
I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge. -- Immanuel Kant
It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination. -- Samuel Johnson
Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition. -- Michel de Montaigne
As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment. -- Friedrich Schiller
My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before. -- Billy Corgan
You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes. -- Catherine the Great
A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity. -- David Gemmell
I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination. -- Rowan Atkinson
Brands must make use of the inclination of consumers to be persuaded by friends. -- Martin Lindstrom
For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion. -- Alexander Pope
The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination. -- Herbert Spencer
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. -- Daniel Defoe
While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin. -- Susanna Rowson
Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination. -- Albert Einstein
I've had many idols growing up. The inclination for idol worship comes naturally to me. -- Kevin Corrigan
And men who do not expect to receive mercy eventually lose their inclination to grant it. -- Caputo Philip
When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots. -- Nikola Tesla
She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy. -- Ann Brashares
To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition. -- Albert Einstein
I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination. -- Cole Younger
The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany. -- Arthur Seyss-Inquart
I have this self-conscious inclination to just say "anyone who hates it, that's cool that's fine!" -- Philip Morrison
Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind. -- Gautama Buddha
In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness. -- Gautama Buddha
Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light. -- Honore de Balzac
I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination. -- George Washington
Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind. -- George A. Smith
It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . . -- Joanna Baillie
How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity. -- Robert Gottlieb
He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough. -- John Powell
My inclination during sex always is to use sex toys. That's not something men are often used to. -- Margaret Cho
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination. -- William Hazlitt
The ordinary manner of spending their time, is the only way of judging of people's inclination and genius. -- Ellin Devis
Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned. -- Luc de Clapiers
Unity is the intentional inclination to corporately control our destination. In other words, achieving the dream takes a team! -- DeWayne Owens
If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married. -- Elizabeth I
I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it. -- Christine Baranski
If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married. -- Elizabeth I
In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own. -- Raymond Aron
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. -- Edsger Dijkstra
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. -- Edsger Dijkstra
Some souls attain enlightenment. No one knows why. You could say it is individual inclination. I'm not convinced that's the case. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Russia's inclination toward authoritarianism undoubtedly strengthened the leaders in Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Kazakhstan, as they are afraid of normal democratic procedures. -- Garry Kasparov
The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it. -- Mason Cooley
Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him. -- Oswald Chambers
I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence. -- George Michael
We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it. -- Robert Genn
I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians. -- Dalton McGuinty
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
Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism. -- Michel de Montaigne
These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination. -- Democritus
In cases in which the related previous personality had committed suicide, the subject has shown an inclination to contemplate and threaten suicide. -- Ian Stevenson
You'll face overwhelming odds; you'll be incredibly outnumbered. Fear would be your natural inclination. But keep in mind, God is with you. -- James MacDonald
Mothers give us life, love, and the heartfelt inclination to cry, 'I want my mommy,' no matter how old we get." -- Richelle E. Goodrich
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. -- Samuel Johnson
Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding. -- Sarah Fielding
If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears. -- Mary Balogh
If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully. -- Ahmet Ertegun
There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
Wherever there's capitalism there's this inclination toward simplicity. There's also a human need to process complicated things by turning them into something else. -- Aleksandar Hemon
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.] -- Ovid
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
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
My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming. -- Buzz Aldrin
Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination. -- J. C. Ryle

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