Quotes About Inclination

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We received our initial inspiration from our family, as from childhood we exhibited an inclination towards art. While Johns randomly drew pictures, I used to present dramas for my siblings. But when we grew up, we both got addicted to our interests and it was fueled by political activism.

My adult life has been a patchwork of projects, most of which were fleeting fancies of overreaching vision. I tend to seize on things, only to abandon them due to a lack of time, talent or inclination.

Yo debo tener esperanzas como de paso, vertiginosas, si es posible, y no pensar demasiado en que se cumplan; ese debe ser, también, el sentido del agua, su inclinación instintiva.

Esta funesta inclinación nace de la constitución misma del hombre, de ese sentimiento primitivo, universal, invencible, que lo empuja hacia el bienestar y lo hace huir de la incomodidad, el esfuerzo y el dolor.

The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither.

I hate to say it, but, yeah, I'm a tobacco junkie.

A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it.

Unsere Entschlüsse sind in viel höherem Maß von der Anpassung an Stand und Umgebung abhängig, als wir geneigt sind, uns einzugestehen.

Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.

Most are inclined to recline into a reclining position, in order to enjoy the decline.

What Jewish tradition refers to as the yetzer ha-ra. [15]

Everybody has a sinful nature pulling them at every turn.

It is a dangerous experiment to call in gratitude as an ally to love. Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.

I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more.

velleity, which describes a mild desire, a wish or urge too slight to lead to action.

No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God incline his heart, and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.

It ain't my cup of meat.

Against his inclination, which was to be sullen, a sense of enjoyment overtook Romulan.

I'll tell you why, I don't invite the ones I don't like.

Zac Goldsmith, Jacob Rees-Mogg. I fancy them all.

Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason.

But the plain truth about most of us is that we have let our intellects sink into a condition in which they have neither the muscles nor the energy nor the right habits for the job, nor any effective inclination towards it. We must see how they may be made fit.

We would much rather blame nature for what we don't like in ourselves than credit it for what we do like.