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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel.
Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.
Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
Some souls attain enlightenment. No one knows why. You could say it is individual inclination. I'm not convinced that's the case.
If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.
Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.
My natural inclination is to think in scenes. So that's how I write, and the issue for me is usually: what to compress for speed.
I did not have any inclination towards cinema. The atmosphere at home was not filmy, and we would never discuss anything related to films.
My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.
You'll face overwhelming odds; you'll be incredibly outnumbered. Fear would be your natural inclination. But keep in mind, God is with you.
But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?
Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.
Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.
I have long been fascinated by our inclination to assume others we meet have the same moral code, similar values, and yet we can never be sure.
While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.
There's an inclination to get on the inside of Jesus' psyche, and I think that's a deep mistake because it assumes that what you have here is someone analogous to us.
Russia's inclination toward authoritarianism undoubtedly strengthened the leaders in Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Kazakhstan, as they are afraid of normal democratic procedures.
There is nothing perhaps more adverse to nature and reason than to hold in obedience remote countries and foreign nations, in opposition to their inclination and interest.
I would also argue... that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small 'l' liberals, we Canadians.
This inclination to hoard is deeply ingrained in me because in the past, in times of scarcity, you took what you could get.
If two angels were sent down from heaven,--one to conduct an empire, and the other to sweep a street,--they would feel no inclination to change employments.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.
My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.
When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.
It, (creativity) requires an inclination to step into the unknown, as well as the ability to persist when
there is no end in sight.
Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.
I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "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."
If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.
The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.
We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inclination in space, and we're just in a little different altitude.
At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about.
Though every human being on the planet has an inclination for leadership, most of us do not have the courage to cultivate it.
Most friendly fire incidents aren't investigated properly because of neglect or a natural inclination to cover up the embarrassing fact that they killed one of their own.
I don't think people are reacting primarily to the danger of the sport. There are many other activities that are truly dangerous that we have no inclination to ban.
Cure yourself of the inclination to bother about how you look to other people. Be concerned only . . . with the idea God has of you.
Doing social media is a way of not giving in to this inclination to hiding. But instead, I'm teaching myself to feel comfortable about being open.
I've lost so many gigs composing commercial or television music because I can't repress my inclination to work against conventions.
So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.
For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it.
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.
How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?
We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.
The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany.
In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.
These differences, they say, are three: shape, arrangement, and position; because they hold that what is differs only in contour, inter-contact, inclination.
Wherever there's capitalism there's this inclination toward simplicity. There's also a human need to process complicated things by turning them into something else.
The ordinary manner of spending their time, is the only way of judging of people's inclination and genius.
I am not going to use the federal government's authority deliberately to circumvent the natural inclination of people to live in ethnic homogeneous neighborhoods.
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.
My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto loyally.'
It's unfair how the kids who are starving for attention tended to be so annoying that people had no inclination to give it to them.
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.
History unravels; circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled.
The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.
If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual funds.
Being a nice girl from the Mid-West, my inclination is always to give in and say yes because I want people to like me.
