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Quotes About Incline

God is not silent; God says, as Isaiah puts it, "Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live" (Isaiah 55:3). Faith
~ John Webster
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
I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.
~ Cole Younger
Well,' I laughed, 'I certainly don't know God, and frankly I'm inclined to think that God is impossible to believe in, at least most of the notions of God that I've come across.' 'Oh, of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that He exists.' He
~ Gregory David Roberts
Better the dull pain of bitter memories, he was half inclined to think, than the raw pain of this new parting that was upon him. And there seemed to be nothing he could do to avert it.
~ Mary Balogh
I can do what I want, when I want. I want to go to this place, I pick up and go. It's nice. I've just never been inclined to do anything that's too crazy. But I still have to work, you know. Some days I don't feel like going to the studio. But I still have to.
~ Daniel Caesar
I want to create as many opportunities as possible for people inclined towards sports.
~ Sangram Singh
During my years in school, I did try to audition for and partake in school plays. Reason being I was not very inclined towards more physically challenging activities like sports.
~ Shweta Bachchan Nanda
So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.
~ Thom Mayne
The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Most of us are naturally inclined to struggle against the restrictions our friends and family impose upon us, but if we are so unfortunate as to lose a loved one, what a difference then! Then the restriction becomes a sacred trust.
~ Susanna Clarke
Being a politician, he was never dissuaded from giving any body his opinion by the mere fact that they were not inclined to hear it.
~ Susanna Clarke
Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain -- and since labor is pain in itself -- it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work.
~ Frederic Bastiat
My hypothesis is that for people who are both trained and inclined to think in rigorously logical ways, it is particularly difficult to adapt to the Soviet system of doublethink.
~ Masha Gessen
the problem of gender identity is our evasion of the implications of power and our may-I-say-"feminine" inclinations to make nice. War is not nice.
~ June Jordan
Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
~ John Burroughs
Men seem inclined to react to a problem either by putting forward some theory and clinging to it as long as they can (if it is erroneous they may even perish with it rather than give it up), or by fighting against such a theory, once they have seen its weakness.
~ Karl Popper
We need the courage as well as the inclination to consult, and profit from, the "wisdom traditions of mankind." —E.F. Schumacher In
~ Huston Smith
On YouTube, when you have a big viral success with a song that isn't your own, the natural inclination for most YouTubers is to keep doing that. What you really should do is show people that you actually have substance and can write your own music.
~ Charlie Puth
He looks like a bumblebee caught under a glass," Lassiter remarked. Butch glanced over at the angel. "I know you're immortal and shit, but you better run like a motherfucker when you let him out." "You know, I'm inclined to agree with you.
~ J.R. Ward
I was always inclined towards spiritualism but was afraid that I would become a sanyasin if I pursued it actively.
~ Tanushree Dutta
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
So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.
~ Thom Mayne
but yet it appeared to her so natural, so inevitable to strive against an inclination of that sort unrequited, that she could not comprehend its continuing very long in equal force.
~ Jane Austen