Quotes of: Incline Keyword

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

Washington Irving

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.

Pope John Paul II

[People] ask themselves, what is suitable for my position? What is usually done by persons of my station and percuniary circumstances? Or (worse still) what is usually done by persons of a station and circumstances superior to mine? I do not mean tha...

On Liberty

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.

The Complete Essays

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.

Collected Works

A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.

The Art of War

The truth is usually left for us to hunt and gather independently, if we are so inclined.

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose.

Gunther Schuller

In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.

Jeff Miller

Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost.

Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer

. . to cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous.

The Inn at the Edge of the World

She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.

Sisterhood Everlasting

The unschooled European mind, inclined to rational reduction, to pigeonholing and simplification, readily pushes everything African into a single bag and is content with facile stereotypes.

The Shadow of the Sun

A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. This is the art of studying moods.

The Art of War

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.

Quentin Crisp

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.

Rowan Atkinson

People are more inclined to ask than . They note errors and faults, seeing weaknesses before strengths. So expect criticism; it's the nature of the beast.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.

Konrad Lorenz

I don't do anything mysterious on purpose. I'm less than forthcoming, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm mysterious. It just means I'm not inclined to go there.

Leon Redbone

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater. But that has to do with content and also because the venues seem to be actively trying to repel people.

Shane Carruth

The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

Steven Pinker