Inclines Quotes

#1. Unlike stories, real life, when it has passed, inclines toward obscurity, not clarity.

Elena Ferrante

#2. 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

#3. I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives is not so much your arguments against it as the fanatical and twisted attitudes of its defenders.

C.S. Lewis

#4. Mind is greedy. When you sense the benefits with people who previously thought rubbish about you, the mind forgoes those thoughts and inclines toward those people only to gain optimal benefits.

Ashish Patel

#5. Running doesn't just make me happy. Running keeps me alive. When I'm running-the blood pumping through my veins, the tunes playing in my ears, the muscles tightening on the inclines- the problems of the world disappear. It's just me, the sidewalk, and God.

Lisa Schroeder

#6. Why is it that any time we speak of temptation we always speak of temptation as something that inclines us to wrong. We have more temptations to become good than we do to become bad.

Fulton J. Sheen

#7. God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant.

Max Lucado

#8. A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

Thomas Fuller

#9. A woman is a deep Ditch, said he, her House inclines to Death and her Paths unto the Devil

Peter Ackroyd

#10. As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

Virgil

#11. The halo effect discussed earlier contributes to coherence, because it inclines us to match our view of all the qualities of a person to our judgment of one attribute that is particularly significant. If

Daniel Kahneman

#12. As a twig is bent the tree inclines.

Virgil

#13. In the break-up of a marriage the world inclines to take the side of the partner with most vitality, rather than the one apparently least to blame.

Anthony Powell

#14. The wisdom of the flesh is a judgement that the ordinary ends of our natural appetites are the goods to which the whole of man's life are to be ordered. Therefore it inevitably inclines the will to violate God's law.

Thomas Merton

#15. ...methinks the older that one grows,
Inclines us more to laugh the scold, though laughter
Leaves us so doubly serious shortly after.

George Gordon Byron

#16. Let the pleasure of doodling led us to writing as decoration rather than to the peculiarly abstract sort of representation it inclines towards: the making of signs to look through rather than at.

Robert M. Kaplan

#17. Those who complete the course will do so only because they do not, as fatigue sets in, convince themselves that the road ahead is still too long, the inclines too steep, the loneliness impossible to bear and the prize itself of doubtful value.

Thabo Mbeki

#18. Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart, And press a suit with passion, Is not a woman's part. If man come not to gather The roses where they stand, They fade among their foliage, They cannot seek his hand.

William C. Bryant

#19. To those that are not accustomed to it the inner beauty appears as ugliness because humanity in general inclines to the outer and knows nothing of the inner.

Wassily Kandinsky

#20. Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

Samuel Johnson

#21. Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.

Marcus Aurelius

#22. The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left.

Anonymous

#23. Man's disposition voluntarily so inclines to falsehood that he more quickly derives error from one word than truth from a wordy discourse. In

John Calvin

#24. Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

Aeschylus

#25. Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

Baron De Montesquieu

#26. There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.

Samuel Johnson

#27. The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

Agnes Repplier

#28. God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#29. All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#30. And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#31. Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#32. Do not be astonished to see simple people believing without argument. God makes them love him and hate themselves. He inclines their hearts to believe. We shall never believe, with an effective belief and faith, unless God inclines our hearts.

Blaise Pascal

#33. Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at great perfection; and no wonder, since every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies; the work then, being pushed on by many hands, must go forward.

John Dryden

#34. I am staring into the hissing face of a cobra. A surprisingly pink tongue slithers in and out of a cruel mouth while an Indian man whose eyes are the blue of blindless inclines his head towards my mother and explains in Hindi that cobras make very good eating.

Libba Bray

#35. I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends.

Willa Gibbs

#36. Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a film's final cut vaporizes every other way it might have been made.

David Mitchell

#37. This circuit is interesting because it has inclines and declines. Not just up, but down as well.

Murray Walker

#38. Of all the simplifications to which the human spirit naturally inclines, unable to reconcile itself to the complexity of the real, there is none more dangerous than the attempt to integrate the whole of society in one vast, permanent action group.

Bertrand De Jouvenel

#39. Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; "stupid to the point of sanctity," they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#40. The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids.

John Milton

#41. When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.

William Shenstone

#42. Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up
thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.

Marshall McLuhan

#43. The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life
the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense
the life of Blake or of Dante
taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music.

James Joyce