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Quotes About Inclination

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.
~ Joseph Butler
We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inclination in space, and we're just in a little different altitude.
~ Linda M. Godwin
I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want to see is a Conservative government in Ottawa.
~ Peter MacKay
The Jews were slaves in the land of their Exile, and suddenly they found themselves with unlimited freedom, wild freedom that only exists in a land like Turkey. This sudden change has produced in their hearts an inclination toward repressive tyranny, as always happens when a slave rules.
~ Tom Segev
He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.
~ Paulo Coelho
Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association.
~ Jim Rohn
That vulture in you to devour so many As will to greatness dedicate themselves, Finding it so inclined.
~ William Shakespeare
Children in their youth blossomed and bloomed; then chance, inclination, heredity all played their part
~ Winston Graham
Success is a cloudy vision at the top of a steep hill and you have to make up your mind if you've got the energy and inclination to climb it.
~ Clifford Thurlow
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practised at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.
~ Holbrook Jackson
Do not expect others to share my depraved tastes.
~ Holly Black
Our life is managed from behind the scenes: we are actors in dramas that we cannot interpret. Of almost no decisive event can we say: this was our own choosing. We happen upon careers, necessity pushing, blind inclination pulling. If we stop to think we are amazed that we should be what we are.
~ Unknown
Some people aren't good at anything. Some people just really like donuts.
~ Lisa Graff
J?dom?, ka tas visp?r ir dabas likums. Katram cilv?kam ir tas, ko vi?š negrib, toties citiem ir tas, p?c k? vi?š ilgojas.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
~ Jewel Kilcher
She has never read any Gogol herself, but she is willing to place him on a shelf in her mind, along with Tennyson and Wordsworth
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Being open source meant that I could work on the technical side (along with lots of other people), and others who had the interest and inclination could start up companies around it.
~ Linus Torvalds
You know, I definitely have an inclination to work in the public sector.
~ Rashida Jones
I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Pretty much everything that I pick, when it comes to choosing roles, is just based on things and materials that grabs me. It's pretty much the subject matter that I gravitate towards.
~ Brittany Snow
I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.
~ Andy Rooney
For everything naturally desires good
~ Peter Kreeft
What do you want? Egg in your beer?
~ Philip K. Dick
I've always had an addictive nature.
~ Gail Porter