Quotes About Inclination

If I were to draw, I would apply myself only to studying the form of inanimate objects," I said somewhat imperiously, because I wanted to change the subjects and also because a natural inclination does truly lead me to recognise my moods in the motionless suffering of things.

Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.

I daresay with age comes the inclination not to care much what others think.

There is no field other than the weird in which I have any aptitude or inclination for fictional composition. Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.

Bruno: Me parece que no puedo dejarlo. Me parece que no quiero.

Sorry, I'm not into farm animals.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

I may have the genetic coding that Im inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.

We are formed by what we desire

Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

Desire should be allowed to roam freely. The range is endless .

If you like working out in a gym over playing a sport, then you should go ahead and do it. It is about what your mind has a liking towards.

It is one of the psychological mistakes that the world makes, to assume that a man whose inclination drives him on to attempt seduction after seduction is a man of more ardent erotic passion than the more constant lover. The very reverse is the case.

you start repeating what's already been said, as lawyers have a natural inclination to

We are formed by what we desire

Miss Trixie was never perfectly vertical; she and the floor always met at an angle of less than ninety degrees.

A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith.

We naturally like what we have been accustomed to, and are attracted towards it. [...] The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.

When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.

Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

By contrast, if God works in us, the will is changed, and being gently breathed upon by the Spirit of God, it again wills and acts from pure willingness and inclination and of its own accord, not from compulsion