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When surprised and excited and innocent Gus emerged from Grand Gesture Metaphorically Inclined Augustus, I literally could not resist. -- John Green
I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain. -- Jacques Cartier
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. -- Alexander Pope
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence. -- David Viscott
I am a person who is inclined to define relations between individuals based on principles. -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment. -- Tony Benn
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment. -- B. F. Skinner
If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves. -- Sugata Mitra
Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so. -- Aristotle
Love your enemies... it's not always an easy tenet to live by... and I have more often than not been inclined to wish my enemies ill than well. -- Lea Salonga
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing. -- Ben Hogan
Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
Killing a baby seal is about the easiest thing you can do if you're inclined to be sadistic; you certainly can't say there's any sport in it - the animal is totally defenceless. -- Paul Watson
We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors. -- Norman Vincent Peale
In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another. -- Jeff Miller
When people start thinking of you more as a persona, they are less inclined to allow you to move into different areas. Sometimes they're wrong. Sometimes they're just very stereotypical or restricted in their own thinking of what they'll allow you to do. -- Robert Redford
And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live. -- James Young
The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude. -- Jon Meacham
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. -- Abraham Lincoln
I'm always involved with the Aerospace Program and NASA and Goddard Space Flight Center. And if kids feel so inclined, they can log onto NASA and the Optimus Prime Spinoff Award, which we present every year to some of the brilliant young minds that are taking up into the academics of space, science, technology, math. -- Peter Cullen
I was not athletically inclined. I was very quiet, introverted, non-confrontational. My three older brothers were athletes - basketball, football - but I was kind of a momma's boy. Then one day, my brother Roger encouraged me to go to the boxing gym with him. I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
Certainly political capital-slash-celebrity attention, whatever you want to call it, certainly is part of the reason why I've been reaching out to CEOs. There's a lot of folks who probably would have taken a call from me before but are even more inclined now and are interested in what we're doing because of all the attention. -- Scott Walker
It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends. -- Iain McGilchrist
According to my mother, there pretty much wasn't anything I wouldn't eat as a child. Not just try, but eat. I was even inclined to dig into stuff about which she expressed open disgust - lobster and other shellfish, and cheap Chinese food with pepper so hot it made your gums feel like a medieval dentist had been at them. -- Alice Dreger
About four days a week, I do pretty good at having a morning prayer time. But even at that, it's a rambling sort of thing. What I have learned to do better is to try to keep my mind turned toward God and ear inclined toward God throughout the day, and I think I'm doing better at that, but I've got a long way to go. -- Max Lucado
I'm rather inclined to liking people. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
Nature has inclined us to love men. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist. -- Ray Bradbury
As the twig is bent the tree is inclined. -- George Ade
At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching. -- James Levine
Those who are inclined to compromise never make a revolution. -- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
People are very inclined to set moral standards for others. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone. -- William Faulkner
Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune. -- Honore de Balzac
Sometimes those who need it the most are inclined the least. -- Jim Rohn
Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve. -- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone. -- Joel Murray
Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant. -- Neville Cardus
[On homosexuality:] I'm more inclined [now] to say live and let live. -- Anita Bryant
I'm still a fiscal conservative, and I'm inclined to pay down debt. -- Jim Flaherty
Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter. -- James Dyson
The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown. -- T. S. Eliot
Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction. -- Pasquier Quesnel
Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes. -- Karl Kraus
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts. -- Harold Nicolson
Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure. -- Bertrand Russell
I'm very much inclined to be a next-chapter guy instead of a last-chapter guy. -- Roy Blunt
Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white. -- Richard Kerry
You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I'm inclined to extravagance. -- Tennessee Williams
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts. -- Harold Nicolson
What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation. -- Lady Gregory
Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain. -- Santiago Ramon y Cajal
We may be particularly inclined to acquire and retain beliefs that make us feel good. -- Thomas Gilovich
A people fatigued by bad presidential judgment aren't inclined to reward him or his party. -- Monica Crowley
I'm inclined to vote for Roberts unless something else comes up. It's a close call. -- Max Baucus
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined. -- Alexander Pope
I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books. -- Emma Donoghue
There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is. -- Nancy Mitford
There, close enough to spit on--if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit--was the dragon. -- Vivian Vande Velde
I am attracting a new audience now, one that is more open and more spiritually inclined. -- Kenny Loggins
He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others. -- Andre Gide
My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being. -- Robert Silverberg
New Yorkers are inclined to assume it will never rain, and certainly not on New Yorkers. -- Brooks Atkinson
People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous. -- Danielle Steel
I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs. -- Edmund Hillary
Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. -- Amy Clampitt
I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies. -- Michael Fassbender
And many to study so much are inclined, that utterly they fall out of their mind. -- Alexander Barclay
For a long time, I have been inclined to start a school for the talented children. -- Sivamani
I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like. -- Hermann Hesse
I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. -- John Constable
The more perfect one becomes, the less he is inclined to speak of the imperfections of others. -- ElRay L. Christiansen
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us. -- Barbara Deming
One can be inclined to just say, "F this political correctness! I don't have time for that!" -- Quentin Tarantino
I am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them. -- Margaret Millar
I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts. -- Barbara Kingsolver
The truth is usually left for us to hunt and gather independently, if we are so inclined. -- Raquel Cepeda
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. -- Samuel Johnson
If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, wherever you are. -- Mary Slessor
I am inclined to believe that some music, like certain poetry, finds its appeal and way to all. -- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts. -- Timothy Noah
Druid log July 15: Dark elves are not only quick and efficient killers, but creative and pyrotechnically inclined ones. -- Kevin Hearne
Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
the heart that is truly virtuous is ever inclined to pity and forgive the errors of its fellow-creatures. -- Susanna Rowson
I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones. -- Adolf Eichmann
People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another. -- George Santayana
The more people doubt their own beliefs the more, paradoxically, they are inclined to proselytize in favor of them. -- David Brooks
Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff -- Harold Nicolson
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. -- Thomas Jefferson
When you're comfortable, you're not necessarily inclined to care about things that are contributing to your comfort. It's difficult. -- Alex Ebert
At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined. -- Philip Neri
We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this. -- Holbrook Jackson
For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others. -- BolesÅ?aw Prus
The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges. -- Ernest Hemingway
The press exerts the pressure of dissent on officials otherwise inclined to rest content with the congratulations of their retainers. -- Bill Vaughan
All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater. -- Shane Carruth
When you win an election, you are always inclined to believe you won for the reasons you wanted to win. -- William Galston
Life has changed. People have changed. They are more forgiving, less inclined to rush to judgment. And I have changed. -- Marianne Faithfull
I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it. -- Abraham Lincoln
It is surrounded by a thin flat ring, inclined to the ecliptic, and nowhere touches the body of the planet. -- Christiaan Huygens
Join me? Patting the spot beside him, he inclined his head. "Pretty please? I'm lonely all by myself over here. -- J. Lynn
I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions. -- Sylvia Ashton-Warner
The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious. -- Jonathan Swift
I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet. -- Damian Lewis
I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.' -- Randeep Hooda
I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally. -- Dave Matthews
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. -- Voltaire
Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like. -- George Saunders
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. -- William Shakespeare
All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off. -- Horace
Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature. -- Carl von Clausewitz
A word says more than a thousand images. Exercises for the visually inclined: illustrate "appreciation", "humor", "software", "education", "inalienable rights", "elegance", "fact". -- Erik Naggum
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. -- William Shakespeare
But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
I'm naturally inclined to have sex with every beautiful woman I see. But that doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. -- Rick Warren

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