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Quotes About Inclination

For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.
~ William F. Buckley Jr.
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
~ Alexander Pushkin
We don't need inspiration to do something, we just need interest.
~ SanviWords
He could not be a breaker, it was against his bent.
~ Edith Pargeter
They had never before avowed their inclination so openly, and Ethan, for a moment, had the illusion that he was a free man, wooing the girl he meant to marry. He looked at her hair and longed to touch it again, and to tell her that is smelt of the woods; but he had never learned to say such things.
~ Edith Wharton
Yet what is deeper in a man than his tastes?
~ Edith Wharton
quando hanno nel cuore uno scapestrato (ed è lì che inclinano sempre), non se lo staccan più.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
We always do what's natural, only sometimes we shouldn't do it.
~ Alfred Bester
I had now been in the United States of America something like five years, working here and there as the inclination seized me, which, I must confess, was not often. I was certainly getting some enjoyment out of life, but now and then the waste of time appalled me, for I still have a conviction that I was born to a different life.
~ W. H. Davies
If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.
~ Dario Argento
I've always been very un-fun. I'm a habit person. I have a very weak version of an addictive personality.
~ Josh Gondelman
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
If individuals are naturally inclined to desire what their neighbors possess, or to desire what their neighbors even simply desire, this means that rivalry exists at the very heart of human social relations.
~ Rene Girard
As the fire doth mount upwards, and the needle that is touched with the loadstone still turneth to the north, so the converted soul is inclined to God. Nothing else can satisfy him, nor can he find any content and rest but in his love. In a word, all that are converted do esteem and love God better than all the world; and the heavenly felicity is dearer to them than their fleshly prosperity.
~ Richard Baxter
For as long as I can remember I was frighteningly, although often wonderfully, beholden to moods. Intensely emotional as a child, mercurial as a young girl, first severely depressed as an adolescent, and then unrelentingly caught up in the cycles of manic-depressive illness by the time I began my professional life, I became, both by necessity and intellectual inclination, a student of moods.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
Action creates/a taste/for itself.
~ Kay Ryan
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.
~ William Hazlitt
But that from us aught should ascend to Heav'n So prevalent as to concern the mind Of God, high-bless'd, or to incline His will, Hard to belief may seem; yet this will prayer.
~ John Milton
evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire")
~ William S. Wilson
How use doth breed a habit in a man.
~ William Shakespeare
I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.
~ Immanuel Kant
I didn't think I'd ever eat pork; it just does not appeal to me.
~ Bill Callahan
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr