Quotes About Inclination

They experience it as an inner calling. It tends to dominate their thoughts and dreams. They find their way, by accident or sheer effort, to a career path in which this inclination can flourish.

Alles, was wir denken, ist entweder Zuneigung oder Abneigung.

Tener aventuras es algo natural para algunas personas - dijo Ana serenamente - O se tienen, o no se tienen los dotes para vivirlas. Ana de Avonlea

Though Roscoe had been hopeful of staying the night, he was beginning to lose his inclination. Louisa Brooks was almost as scary as wild pigs, in his view.

It was still there, a low-grade fever in the blood, an itch somewhere down beneath the skin, where you couldn't scratch it.

These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.

No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.

There is an art, a science to gaining power. There is a natural force or inclination in all of our beings to accumulate power. The problem that we come into is conditioning.

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like. [in review of a book]

I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.

I never had to choose my subject- my subject rather chose me.

I always like the bad ones. I know he's a bad one of some sort.

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 practiced 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.

Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics.

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

I only do work that suits my temperament.

pitched off-kilter at almost a forty-five-degree angle.

A pause. Sense entered into a short, violent skirmish with instinct and inclination, and was overwhelmed.

All my life I have had this inclination to yield only to gentleness and reason—and to resist all pressure.

You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me when this inclination passes. (Catherine, in a letter to Grigory Potemkin).

offered it a respectful inclination of the head while recovering my

you create severe anxiety when you jump from inclination to "musturbation.