Quotes about Inclined

When surprised and excited and innocent Gus emerged from Grand Gesture Metaphorically Inclined Augustus, I literally could not resist. Votes: 3

I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain. Votes: 2

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. Votes: 2

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence. Votes: 2

I am a person who is inclined to define relations between individuals based on principles. Votes: 2

I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment. Votes: 2

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions. Votes: 2

A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment. Votes: 2

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so. Votes: 2

Love your enemies... it's not always an easy tenet to live by... and I have more often than not been inclined to wish my enemies ill than well. Votes: 2

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing. Votes: 2

Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me. Votes: 2

Killing a baby seal is about the easiest thing you can do if you're inclined to be sadistic; you certainly can't say there's any sport in it - the animal is totally defenceless. Votes: 2

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

When people start thinking of you more as a persona, they are less inclined to allow you to move into different areas. Sometimes they're wrong. Sometimes they're just very stereotypical or restricted in their own thinking of what they'll allow you to do. Votes: 2

And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live. Votes: 2

The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude. Votes: 2

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Votes: 2

I'm always involved with the Aerospace Program and NASA and Goddard Space Flight Center. And if kids feel so inclined, they can log onto NASA and the Optimus Prime Spinoff Award, which we present every year to some of the brilliant young minds that are taking up into the academics of space, science, technology, math. Votes: 2

I was not athletically inclined. I was very quiet, introverted, non-confrontational. My three older brothers were athletes - basketball, football - but I was kind of a momma's boy. Then one day, my brother Roger encouraged me to go to the boxing gym with him. I tried the gloves on, and it just felt so natural. Votes: 2

Certainly political capital-slash-celebrity attention, whatever you want to call it, certainly is part of the reason why I've been reaching out to CEOs. There's a lot of folks who probably would have taken a call from me before but are even more inclined now and are interested in what we're doing because of all the attention. Votes: 2

It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends. Votes: 2

According to my mother, there pretty much wasn't anything I wouldn't eat as a child. Not just try, but eat. I was even inclined to dig into stuff about which she expressed open disgust - lobster and other shellfish, and cheap Chinese food with pepper so hot it made your gums feel like a medieval dentist had been at them. Votes: 2

About four days a week, I do pretty good at having a morning prayer time. But even at that, it's a rambling sort of thing. What I have learned to do better is to try to keep my mind turned toward God and ear inclined toward God throughout the day, and I think I'm doing better at that, but I've got a long way to go. Votes: 2

I'm rather inclined to liking people. Votes: 0

Nature has inclined us to love men. Votes: 0

I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist. Votes: 0

As the twig is bent the tree is inclined. Votes: 0

At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching. Votes: 0

Those who are inclined to compromise never make a revolution. Votes: 0

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others. Votes: 0

I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone. Votes: 0

Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune. Votes: 0

Sometimes those who need it the most are inclined the least. Votes: 0

Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve. Votes: 0

I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone. Votes: 0

Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant. Votes: 0

[On homosexuality:] I'm more inclined [now] to say live and let live. Votes: 0

I'm still a fiscal conservative, and I'm inclined to pay down debt. Votes: 0

Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter. Votes: 0

The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown. Votes: 0

Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction. Votes: 0

Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes. Votes: 0

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts. Votes: 0

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure. Votes: 0

I'm very much inclined to be a next-chapter guy instead of a last-chapter guy. Votes: 0

Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white. Votes: 0

You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I'm inclined to extravagance. Votes: 0

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts. Votes: 0

What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation. Votes: 0

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain. Votes: 0

We may be particularly inclined to acquire and retain beliefs that make us feel good. Votes: 0

A people fatigued by bad presidential judgment aren't inclined to reward him or his party. Votes: 0

I'm inclined to vote for Roberts unless something else comes up. It's a close call. Votes: 0

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined. Votes: 0

I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books. Votes: 0

There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society. Votes: 0

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is. Votes: 0

There, close enough to spit on--if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit--was the dragon. Votes: 0

I am attracting a new audience now, one that is more open and more spiritually inclined. Votes: 0

He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others. Votes: 0

My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being. Votes: 0

New Yorkers are inclined to assume it will never rain, and certainly not on New Yorkers. Votes: 0

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous. Votes: 0

I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs. Votes: 0

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. Votes: 0

I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies. Votes: 0

And many to study so much are inclined, that utterly they fall out of their mind. Votes: 0

For a long time, I have been inclined to start a school for the talented children. Votes: 0

I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like. Votes: 0

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. Votes: 0

The more perfect one becomes, the less he is inclined to speak of the imperfections of others. Votes: 0

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us. Votes: 0

One can be inclined to just say, "F this political correctness! I don't have time for that!" Votes: 0

I am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently. Votes: 0

When someone gives me three reasons instead of one, I'm inclined not to believe any of them. Votes: 0

I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts. Votes: 0

The truth is usually left for us to hunt and gather independently, if we are so inclined. Votes: 0

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. Votes: 0

If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, wherever you are. Votes: 0

I am inclined to believe that some music, like certain poetry, finds its appeal and way to all. Votes: 0

Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts. Votes: 0

Druid log July 15: Dark elves are not only quick and efficient killers, but creative and pyrotechnically inclined ones. Votes: 0

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland. Votes: 0

the heart that is truly virtuous is ever inclined to pity and forgive the errors of its fellow-creatures. Votes: 0

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments. Votes: 0

My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones. Votes: 0

People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another. Votes: 0

The more people doubt their own beliefs the more, paradoxically, they are inclined to proselytize in favor of them. Votes: 0

Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff Votes: 0

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Votes: 0

When you're comfortable, you're not necessarily inclined to care about things that are contributing to your comfort. It's difficult. Votes: 0

At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined. Votes: 0

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this. Votes: 0

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others. Votes: 0

The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges. Votes: 0

The press exerts the pressure of dissent on officials otherwise inclined to rest content with the congratulations of their retainers. Votes: 0

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater. Votes: 0

When you win an election, you are always inclined to believe you won for the reasons you wanted to win. Votes: 0

Life has changed. People have changed. They are more forgiving, less inclined to rush to judgment. And I have changed. Votes: 0

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it. Votes: 0

It is surrounded by a thin flat ring, inclined to the ecliptic, and nowhere touches the body of the planet. Votes: 0

Join me? Patting the spot beside him, he inclined his head. "Pretty please? I'm lonely all by myself over here. Votes: 0

I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions. Votes: 0

The preaching of divines helps to preserve well-inclined men in the course of virtue, but seldom or ever reclaims the vicious. Votes: 0

I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet. Votes: 0

I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.' Votes: 0

I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally. Votes: 0

Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. Votes: 0

Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like. Votes: 0

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. Votes: 0

All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off. Votes: 0

Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature. Votes: 0

A word says more than a thousand images. Exercises for the visually inclined: illustrate "appreciation", "humor", "software", "education", "inalienable rights", "elegance", "fact". Votes: 0

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. Votes: 0

But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it. Votes: 0

I'm naturally inclined to have sex with every beautiful woman I see. But that doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. Votes: 0

I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots. Votes: 0

I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't like to be in anyone's gang; I'm a bit of a loose cannon. Votes: 0

I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly. Votes: 0

The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words.... Votes: 0

People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her. Votes: 0

We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it. Votes: 0

Some of us are inclined to look to the weaknesses and shortcomings of others in order to expand our own comfort zone. Votes: 0

Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life. Votes: 0

...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic. Votes: 0

A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. Votes: 0

A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God. Votes: 0

I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football. Votes: 0

If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not withdrawal. Votes: 0

There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published. Votes: 0

Believers are inclined to attribute their spiritual successes to their godliness when it would be more accurate to connect them with God's faithfulness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change. Votes: 0

Those who are socially inclined will find a new power to help humanity through the lessons of books written by noble and gifted people. Votes: 0

Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity. Votes: 0

To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness. Votes: 0

Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit. Votes: 0

I am not naturally inclined to history or geography - maybe that's why I like to sing about it, because it helps me remember. Votes: 0

The people that are inclined to hate are also inclined to belosers. A loser could never congratulate a winner "“ it's not in them Votes: 0

When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward. Votes: 0

I love doing comedy and I love watching comedy... I'm more inclined to go watch a Seth Rogen film than a serious Oscar drama. Votes: 0

I love doing comedy and I love watching comedy... Im more inclined to go watch a Seth Rogen film than a serious Oscar drama. Votes: 0

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Votes: 0

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him. Votes: 0

. . to cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous. Votes: 0

When I find something at a flea market or an antique store, it feels more special and I'm more inclined to want to wear it. Votes: 0

I think, as most people are, I'm fascinated with love, relationships, and my daily life so I'm very inclined to make films about those things. Votes: 0

He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire. Votes: 0

I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one. Votes: 0

History, in a democratic age, tends to become a series of popular apologies, and is inclined to assume that the people can do no wrong. Votes: 0

When I find something at a flea market or an antique store, it feels more special and I'm more inclined to want to wear it." Votes: 0

My family was scientifically inclined: My brother did turn into a neurophysiologist, and I almost became a scientist myself. I could have gone that way. Votes: 0

My mom is a gym teacher, and shes not musically inclined, but she always wanted to help me out with music as best she could. Votes: 0

Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle. Votes: 0

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree. Votes: 0

Anybody who tunes into Rush Limabaugh already knows what he's going to say and is already inclined to agree. So it winds up creating tribes. Votes: 0

I am inclined to put the zenith of success-the time of most consideration and public labor -as somewhere in the sixties, say from sixty-five to seventy. Votes: 0

Learning itself, received into a mind By nature weak, or viciously inclined, Serves but to lead philosophers astray, Where children would with ease discern the way. Votes: 0

Some persons are so inclined to mortify themselves that at every opportunity they have, they do so. What a beautiful practice this is, and how profitable! Votes: 0

There is no suggestion of regime change; quite the contrary, this is an initiative to help people and to help governments who are inclined toward change. Votes: 0

I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler. Votes: 0

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig. Votes: 0

I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does. Votes: 0

Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas! Votes: 0

There were a lot of people who were willing to write a letter for me. Not because I was academically inclined, but because I worked hard. Votes: 0

Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear. Votes: 0

It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is advertising. Votes: 0

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment. Votes: 0

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women. Votes: 0

You must strive to become much less susceptible to influences outside of yourself and much more inclined to trust the instincts and feelings that lie within you. Votes: 0

Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food Votes: 0

Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree. Votes: 0

Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to help you, you may accidentally get something you want. Votes: 0

There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you. Votes: 0

If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do. Votes: 0

I am inclined to believe that if there can be a meaningful human right to any material thing, surely it starts with access to minimum clean freshwater. Votes: 0

It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book. Votes: 0

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault. Votes: 0

Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace. Votes: 0

If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be in great peril at that moment. Votes: 0

I am almost inclined to coin a word and call the appearance fluorescence, from fluor-spar, as the analogous term opalescence is derived from the name of a mineral. Votes: 0

I guessed my mother figured if my father got right down to the task of eating he wouldn't be so inclined to jump up and strangle my grandmother. Votes: 0

It isn't bad judgment to make a man believe he is something. He is by nature inclined to it, and a little encouragement is good for most people. Votes: 0

The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that man really thinks very little and very seldom. Votes: 0

Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves. Votes: 0

You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes Votes: 0

Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties. Votes: 0

He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arrogance, that is the sole providence of cats, dragons, and certain highborn women. Votes: 0

We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage. Votes: 0

I think film is a director's medium and the good filmmakers that I like tell the darker stories. Therefore, I'm always inclined to follow people like David Cronenberg. Votes: 0

Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity. Votes: 0

Your unhappiness doesn't help anyone else - and in fact, as I mentioned in another answer, happy people are more altruistically inclined. So happiness is not a selfish goal. Votes: 0

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. People are very inclined to set moral standards for others. Votes: 0

Whenever we are inclined to feel burdened down with the blows of life, let us remember that others have passed the same way, have endured, and then have overcome. Votes: 0

I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose. Votes: 0

I think my cheerfulness keeps my writing from sinking into the depths of melancholy, while the darker side keeps in check any literary silliness I might be inclined toward. Votes: 0

"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..." Votes: 0

In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution than those who have believed too little. Votes: 0

It was a great circumstance when I received the script of [Chloe] and Atom [Egoyan] said he wanted me to do it. I was inclined to say 'yes' immediately. Votes: 0

I'm increasingly inclined to think there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish. Votes: 0

I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. Votes: 0

If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler. Votes: 0

It's funny, people who have a lot of sexual energy think of themselves as being not spiritual. They are probably more spiritually inclined. All that sexual energy is kundalini. Votes: 0

People are more inclined to ask what's wrong than what's right. They note errors and faults, seeing weaknesses before strengths. So expect criticism; it's the nature of the beast. Votes: 0

Faced with the nonsense question 'What is the meaning of a word?' and perhaps dimly recognizing it to be nonsense, we are nevertheless not inclined to give it up. Votes: 0

Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one aspect of the tragic fact. Votes: 0

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants. Votes: 0

I feel like people might be slightly less inclined to hate me as much as they did in the past, and I think part of that is selling fewer records. Votes: 0

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them. Votes: 0

Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone. Votes: 0

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself. Votes: 0

I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused. Votes: 0

It was six men of Hindustan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind) That each by observation Might satisfy the mind. Votes: 0

The fact that younger people are more inclined to socialism may well come with the fact that so many young people`s first experience with capitalism is as a debtor. Votes: 0

I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting. Votes: 0

The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this. Votes: 0

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution. Votes: 0

Mary is a very well-written typical eldest child in that she puts her own needs at the forefront... She's not as inclined to conciliate or placate. Cora is fascinated by Mary Votes: 0

Of course, the strippers also take pains not to appear too innocent, valorous, or bookishly inclined. (In direct opposition to the Swayze Mandate of 1987, everybody puts Baby in a goddamn corner.) Votes: 0

I would recommend to those persons who are inclined to stagnate, whose blood is beginning to thicken sluggishly in their veins, to try keeping four dogs, two of which are puppies. Votes: 0

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?' Votes: 0

We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness. Votes: 0

[T]he only thing the United States government ever did about slavery was to abolish it. Perhaps that was a mistake, but I do not feel inclined to apologize for it. Votes: 0

The more I think of all that I have seen in the Confederate States, the more I feel inclined to say...'How can you subdue such a nation as this!' Votes: 0

He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had been inclined to throw it at the fellow's head. Votes: 0

As for myself, I do not believe that such a person as Jesus Christ ever existed; but as the people are inclined to superstition, it is proper not to oppose them. Votes: 0

It never took her long to darken any conversation, as from birth she was inclined to see misery in each and every story, and to fabricate some when there was none. Votes: 0

When it comes to labor and politics, I am inclined to be sympathetic to the left, but when it comes to the Catholic Church, then I am far to the right. Votes: 0

As a kid, I was always the jokester. I was telling stories at dinner and trying to make people laugh. I guess I've always just been naturally inclined to tell stories. Votes: 0

You can teach students to develop the ability to think reflectively, and you can help them understand what this means, but if they are not inclined to do so they never will. Votes: 0

When I would go a-visiting, I find that I go off the fashionable street,--not being inclined to change my dress,--to where man meets man, and not polished shoe meets shoe. Votes: 0

Zoological taxonomists in general are inclined to be practical workers rather than philosophers, if only because they face such an unending task that they are not encouraged to sit back and philosophize. Votes: 0

I may have the genetic coding that Im inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way. Votes: 0

I think modern educational theorists are inclined to attach too much importance to the negative virtue of not interfering with children, and too little to the positive merit of enjoying their company. Votes: 0

I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are innately fragile and kind of dangerous. Votes: 0

He changed his position on virtually everything. I'm a moderate Republican, that's what I am, so I'd be inclined to support someone like Mitt Romney. But all those changes give me pause. Votes: 0

I'd like to start writing scripts. I think I'd probably be inclined to write a very dark comedy or a tragic romance. As a kid, I used to write really dark stuff. Votes: 0

Wine, not too much, inspires and make the mind,to the soft joys of Venus strong inclined,which, buried in excess, unapt to love,stupidly lies and knows not hom to move Votes: 0

We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ. Votes: 0

For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation on the farm), but they thrive on neglect and adversity. Votes: 0

A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it. Votes: 0

... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait. Votes: 0

While the Internet generally tends to have a stress-relieving function for adults - as long as they aren't inclined toward sex addiction - I don't see this being the case for adolescents. Votes: 0

The gods, (if gods to goodness are inclined If acts of mercy touch their heavenly mind), And, more than all the gods, your generous heart, Conscious of worth, requite its own desert! Votes: 0

If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those forces are more inclined toward being good than being bad, then I'm a spiritual person. Votes: 0

After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of being able to like such a stupid occupation. Votes: 0

It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste. Votes: 0

If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me Votes: 0

If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me. Votes: 0

I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them. Votes: 0

Though the fact that they have to be rebuilt And frequently mortgaged to the hilt Is inclined to take the gilt Off the gingerbread, And certainly damps the fun Of the eldest son. Votes: 0

I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best. Votes: 0

Passion is too important to be without, but too fickle to be guided by. Which is why I'm more inclined to say, 'Don't Follow Your Passion, But Always Bring it With You.' Votes: 0

If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough. Votes: 0

I hate myself, that I cannot believe it so constantly and surely as I should; but no human creature can rightly know how mercifully God is inclined toward those that steadfastly believe in Christ. Votes: 0

The tighter a deadline is, the more I'm inclined to be perverse and rebellious - I'll start thinking about another, different project, until it becomes the most fantastic thing which I must start immediately. Votes: 0

A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence. Votes: 0

Photography and photographers have an inevitable development. They progress more or less by steps. Every five or ten years some new point of view is developed and young people are inclined to follow it. Votes: 0

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores. Votes: 0

I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pæderastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the only redeeming feature of sexual life at public schools. Votes: 0

We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice. Votes: 0

If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related about the contempt and disgrace falling upon the ungenerous and mean person.... Votes: 0

Kim was more than a little inclined to snarl at him, but in the past few days she had learned that snarling at Mairelon did little good. He simply smiled and corrected her grammar. Votes: 0

Every affliction tests our will, showing whether it is inclined to good or evil. That is why an unforeseen affliction is called a test, because it enables a man to test his hidden desires. Votes: 0

The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied. Votes: 0

we are, in this country, more open to new ideas. But we are also, it seems to me, more inclined to hail the new as absolute truth - until the next new comes along. Votes: 0

My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York when I was 17 and I realised I wasn't Southern Baptist. That's not how I am inclined. Votes: 0

New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper. Votes: 0

Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity. Votes: 0

I discovered that bone china was a British invention, which had been developed by a pottery sited next to a slaughterhouse - 'bone' china, of course, contains bones, though we are inclined to forget that. Votes: 0

I'm romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not. Votes: 0

I myself am more and more inclined to agree with Omar and Satchel Paige as I grow older: Don't try to rewrite what the moving finger has writ, and don't ever look over your shoulder. Votes: 0

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement. Votes: 0

I have assistants that use the internet a lot more than I do. I use the internet for photo research, but for me personally, probably just because of my age, I'm not that mechanically inclined. Votes: 0

My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology. Votes: 0

You might measure your approach to a horse the same way as your approach to people because there are going to be some horses, like some people, who might be inclined to tune you out. Votes: 0

In such a case, it would be almost sure of success, if the active members of a society established for that purpose, were inclined to meet the poor as men, as brethren, and as Christians. Votes: 0

Most magicians consider the palm an easy move to make. They are inclined to believe that they are 'getting away with it,' when they are in fact fortunate enough to have a polite audience. Votes: 0

In the U.S., we fundamentally need to do new things, which I think is harder for the government to do. And moreover, it is not something our government actually is inclined to particularly do. Votes: 0

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot. Votes: 0