Quotes About Inclination

If I had a choice, I'd say I'm right-handed.

I let action rise out of character, really.

I'd say I am partial to women.

God is, or he is not. Which way should we incline? Reason cannot answer.

By definition, chaplains minister to the spiritual needs of our men and women in armed services, a vital function that an individual without any inclination toward spirituality would not be able to perform.

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

I choose roles according to my sensibilities.

So I never wanted to be an actor anyway, so I only do the films which appeal to me and my sensibility.

We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against ...

The Duke of Newcastle, as lord of the Manor of Worksop, was entitled to supply a glove for the sovereign's right hand and to support that hand when Elizabeth clasped the royal sceptre. Unfortunately, the duke had gone off to live in Rhodesia in 1948, and he showed no inclination to come back for the day.

Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?

Every man has a pattern - I don't care what they say. They don't like to admit it, but they do.

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

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.

To be led and then discarded by one's urges...

For my part, I do not much believe in the predilections of boyhood.

Music was something I chose that I came to as a kid, and acting was something that was suggested to me.

When those who seem to be out competing oneself are foreigners, the inclination to say that they are engaging in unfair competition irresistible: to argue otherwise is to suggest that one simply doesn't measure up.

Good habits are hard to establish and easy to lose. Bad habits are easy to establish and hard to break. The reason has to do with our depravity; our natural inclination is to sin, not be righteous.

Half the urge to write is the premonition that later the thought I am having might disappear so I had better write it down while I still have the inclination, however overshadowed this desire is by indolence.

Familiarity breeds liking. This is a mere exposure effect.

The problem you face is not the problem described in the catastrophe clause of your worry. The problem you face is the discomfort you experience in response to the worrisome thought, and your natural inclination to take that thought seriously and resist it. When you resist the thought with your usual selection of anti-worry responses, this is when you once again experience the difficulty of The harder I try, the worse it gets.

Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to them, or you are moved to the marrow by walls that climb and branch, and break into a inflorescence of pinnacles.

Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not, as Kant was later to think, to act against inclination; it is to act from inclination formed by the cultivation of the virtues.