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The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany. — Arthur Seyss-Inquart

A military life has ever comported with my inclination. — George Stoneman

You'll face overwhelming odds; you'll be incredibly outnumbered. Fear would be your natural inclination. But keep in mind, God is with you. — James MacDonald

It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation. — Hyman Rickover

Some souls attain enlightenment. No one knows why. You could say it is individual inclination. I'm not convinced that's the case. — Frederick Lenz

In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it ... — Patrick O'Brian

Most of the things we deem as impossible are only impossible because we've given them permission to be impossible. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I'm a mediator by training and inclination. — Joan Blades

My first inclination was toward flying and being a pilot. — Kevin A. Ford

Mothers give us life, love, and the heartfelt inclination to cry 'I want my mommy' no matter how old we get. — Richelle E. Goodrich

that anxiety has at its core disquietude caused by ambiguity and a strong inclination toward problem solving. When — Kelly G. Wilson

When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots. — Nikola Tesla

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition. — Michel De Montaigne

I have no inclination to seek attention. — John Scarlett

I am an American by birth, a Nazi by reputation, and a nationless person by inclination — Kurt Vonnegut

Do not you feel a great inclination, Miss Bennet, to seize such an opportunity of dancing a reel? — Jane Austen

As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment. — Friedrich Schiller

The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination. — Herbert Spencer

I have never had the desire, need, nor the inclination to ever be the one to make the one I love cry."

~R. Alan Woods [2013] — R. Alan Woods

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind. — George A. Smith

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. — Jane Green

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer. — Edsger W. Dijkstra

Schools themselves pervert the natural inclination to grow and learn into the demand for instruction. — Ivan Illich

Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned. — Luc De Clapiers

Man's will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man's inclinations are always and invariably away from God. — R.C. Sproul

You create severe anxiety when you jump from inclination to musturbation. — Albert Ellis

I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination. — Cole Younger

Marriage is a promise. You can't keep a promise only when it suits you. You have to keep it against your inclination. That's what it means. — Ken Follett

Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice. — George Eliot

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. — Lauren Myracle

Why are there no handsome priest in Paris? One has no inclination to confess anything to an ugly man. — Andrew Miller

History unravels; circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled. — Penelope Lively

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination — James Joyce

We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it. — Robert Genn

The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men. — Friedrich Nietzsche

He had ... regarded travel as a hygienic necessity, which had to be observed against will and inclination. — Thomas Mann

I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it. — Christine Baranski

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? — Charles Portis

It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man ... — Joanna Baillie

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton

There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. — Rumi

I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior. — Joe Wilson

Human nature is seldom at a loss to find or create an excuse for pursuing the predominant bias of inclination. — Helen Craik

The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization. — Sigmund Freud

When one felt like a wasp, one's main inclination was to sting. — Lisa Kleypas

I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge. — Immanuel Kant

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination. — Samuel Johnson

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so. — George Saunders

My inclination during sex always is to use sex toys. That's not something men are often used to. — Margaret Cho

People who feel untrusted have little inclination to bond together into a cooperative team. — Tom DeMarco

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

Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding. — Sarah Fielding

Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light. — Honore De Balzac

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination. — Daniel Defoe

There is no business, no avocation, whatever, which will not permit a man, who has the inclination, to give a little time, every day, to study. — Daniel Albert Wyttenbach

Men judge by the complexion of the sky The state and inclination of the day: — William Shakespeare

It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it. — Charlotte Lennox

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. — Thomas Hobbes

He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough. — John Powell

Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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. — Gregory Maguire

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man. — Francis Bacon

Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind. — Gautama Buddha

And men who do not expect to receive mercy eventually lose their inclination to grant it. — Philip Caputo

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination. — Jean Racine

I hate the very human inclination towards insensitivity — Megan McCafferty

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. — Leigh Newman

You were in a mood to quarrel. Please inform me once the inclination passes. — Catherine The Great

It, (creativity) requires an inclination to step into the unknown, as well as the ability to persist when
there is no end in sight. — Shaun McNiff

Follow your inclination. It will take you to the thoughts you'd never known you'd had. — Rachel Simon

My training and my inclination is to invent. — Darin Strauss

In cases in which the related previous personality had committed suicide, the subject has shown an inclination to contemplate and threaten suicide. — Ian Stevenson

Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination. — Albert Einstein

If there is one sin - or rather one waste - it is not doing what you have the inclination or gift for. — Oliver

Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything. — Vikram Seth

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread. — Jimmy Carter

Patience is the inclination to control the racing mind, which wants to jump ahead. — Balroop Singh

My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto loyally. — J.R.R. Tolkien

As our inclinations, so our opinions. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Opportunities are not often wanting where inclination goes before ... — Elizabeth Gaskell

There's no rule in the end, but only the situation and the inclination of your mind — Steve Hagen

This inclination to hoard is deeply ingrained in me because in the past, in times of scarcity, you took what you could get. — Angela Merkel

Duty is whatever opposes inclination. — Mason Cooley

The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it. — Thomas Jefferson

Often dream creates imageries based on your emotional inclination. — Abhijit Naskar

Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness. — Gautama Buddha

Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right. — Napoleon Bonaparte

A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity. — David Gemmell

Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare. — Erin Morgenstern

D'Artagnan looked for some tapestry behind which he might hide himself, and felt an immense inclination to crawl under the table. — Alexandre Dumas

While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin. — Susanna Rowson

Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God. — R.C. Sproul

I do not feel any obligations toward my lineage, or environment,
but an inclination to what feels right. — Natasha Tsakos

For a prohibition always increases an illicit desire so long as the love of and joy in holiness is too weak to conquer the inclination to sin ... — Augustine Of Hippo

Though every human being on the planet has an inclination for leadership, most of us do not have the courage to cultivate it. — Myles Munroe

You don't need proof. You just need an inclination — Mary Roach

Taste may change, but inclination never. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

An idle life always produces varied inclinations. — Lucan