Quotes of: Natural-inclination Keyword

I'm still a fiscal conservative, and I'm inclined to pay down debt.

Jim Flaherty

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Mark Twain

For a long time, I have been inclined to start a school for the talented children.

Sivamani

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Aldous Huxley

You know, I definitely have an inclination to work in the public sector.

Rashida Jones

Rosenfeld went to work for the Herald Tribune after his graduation from Syracuse University and has always been an editor, never a reporter. He was inclined to worry that too many reporters on the metropolitan staff were incompetent, and thought even...

All the President's Men

It has been our experience that American houses insist on very comprehensive editing; that English houses as a rule require little or none and are inclined to go along with the author's script almost without query. The Canadian practice is just what ...

Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters

It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know from experience. God has given us, in a measure, the power to make our own fate: and when our energies seem to demand a sustenance the...

Jane Eyre

A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

B. F. Skinner

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.

Rowan Atkinson

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

Thomas Fuller

I'd quite like to direct. I don't think it will happen, but my urge is that way inclined.

Kate Fleetwood

I am attracting a new audience now, one that is more open and more spiritually inclined.

Kenny Loggins

It's unbelievable that people have the time and inclination to be as negative as they are on a public platform about people who accomplish whatever they do in the public eye.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

Alexander Pope

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

Eustace Budgell

Life has changed. People have changed. They are more forgiving, less inclined to rush to judgment. And I have changed.

Marianne Faithfull

I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.

Emma Donoghue

Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter.

James Dyson

I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.

Tony Benn

If you cultivate a relationship in a genuine, thoughtful way, people will be more inclined to want to help you even though they don't have to help you.

Douglas Conant