Quotes About Incline

#1. God is or He is not. But to which side shall we incline? Let us weigh the gain and the lose in wagering that God is. Let us estimate the two changes. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, lose nothing. Wager then without any hesitation that He is

Blaise Pascal

#2. We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]

William Whewell

#3. The stars incline, but do not impel.

Robert A. Heinlein

#4. I do body conditioning, spinning and yoga. On the treadmill, I'll do intervals of running flat and then on incline. I'll do that for an hour.

Fleur East

#5. Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father's advice, that by the labor of obedience you may return to Him from whom you had departed by the sloth of disobedience

Benedict Of Nursia

#6. If thou art wise, incline to truth; for truth, not the semblance, remains in its place.

Saadi

#7. Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

Jacques Barzun

#8. What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.

H.L. Mencken

#9. There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike.

Faith Baldwin

#10. Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.

Jane Austen

#11. The idea shared by many that life is a vale of tears is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment.

Leo Tolstoy

#12. If one wants to live one is better to incline towards imbecility than intelligence, and live only in the absurd. Intelligence consists of eating stars and turning them into dung. And the universe, at the most optimistic estimate, is nothing but God's digestive system.

Blaise Cendrars

#13. It's very easy to go down, so always live up. Incline yourself upward.

Jack Nicholson

#14. It is a singular fact that most men of action incline to the theory of fatalism, while the greater part of men of thought believe in providence.

Honore De Balzac

#15. Day and night my thoughts incline To the blandishments of wine, Jars were made to drain, I think; Wine, I know, was made to drink.

Richard Henry Stoddard

#16. You should always say your prayers with tireless diligence, as the Apostle directs, saying: 'Continue in prayer and watch in the same' (Col. 4:2). For humble patience, tirelessness and persistence in prayer conquer the unconquerable God and incline Him to mercy.

Lorenzo Scupoli

#17. And I will trust that He who heeds
The life that hides in mead and wold,
Who hangs you alder's crimson beads,
And stains these mosses green and gold,
Will still, as He hath done, incline
His gracious care to me and mine.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#18. No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God incline his heart, and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.

Blaise Pascal

#19. When it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive.

James Hilton

#20. 30:21 (Asad) And among His wonders is this: He creates for you mates out of your own kind so that you might incline towards them, and He engenders love and tenderness between you: in this, behold, there are messages indeed for people who think.

Anonymous

#21. It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.

William Shenstone

#22. I'm definitely on the incline to a peak.

Fred Durst

#23. People incline to doubt the superiority of a person who will associate with them.

Mary Catherwood

#24. I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character in life and art is only made by an effort that is quite beyond one's ordinary everyday acceptance of things as they are.

Lawren Harris

#25. I'm on a constant yo-yo of health. I will go a week eating incredibly clean, but then I'll follow that up with a month's worth of binge eating. Then I hit the gym and eat clean, and then I mix it up with core exercises, yoga, Pilates, and sitting on an incline bench while checking my phone.

Josh McDermitt

#26. Life is on an incline; you either go up, or you come down.

Kiran Bedi

#27. Do you think I need anything else?" "You could do with some sense," came the reply. "Some faculty to enable you to recognize wisdom and incline you to respect and obey it.

Philip Pullman

#28. If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.

Alexander Hamilton

#29. Virtually all men of action incline to Fatality just as most thinkers incline to Providence.

Honore De Balzac

#30. There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline. In some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.

Bonnie Blair

#31. All things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline.

Brandon Sanderson

#32. Fear does not incline people to be moderate in their use of extreme tactics.

Joe Hill

#33. The fact that they're a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that it's National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.

Barney Frank

#34. The Lord doesn't care at all if we spend our days working in marble halls or stable stalls. He knows where we are, no matter how humble our circumstances. He will use - in His own way and for His holy purposes - those who incline their hearts to Him.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#35. By a steady adherence to the Union we may hope, erelong, to become the arbiter of Europe in America, and to be able to incline the balance of European competitions in this part of the world as our interest may dictate.

Alexander Hamilton

#36. Mrs. Tulliver, as we have seen, was not without influence over her husband. No woman is; she can always incline him to do either what she wishes, or the reverse ...

George Eliot

#37. To the alliance,' agreed Alexon, the words echoing back from those seated around the fire. To the alliance. Charls saw Lamen lift his cup and incline it towards the Prince, who echoed his gesture, the two of them smiling a little. Lamen,

C.S. Pacat

#38. Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance.

Archimedes

#39. I was all, "Oh, dog, Countess gonna crack open a forty of whup-ass on you now. Oh, you in the sh*t now, wigga!" (I am not incline to use hip-hop vernacular often, but there are times when, like French, it just better expresses the sentiment of the moment.) -Abby

Christopher Moore

#40. The miracle is when you shift. The miracle is when you know there is no hill - you're removing the hill. The miracle is when you realize the time of physical decline can be a time of spiritual incline.

Marianne Williamson

#41. I am happy for the first in my life, I can report that I am standing on an incline instead of an edge.

Erica Goros

#42. The more we incline our hearts and minds toward God, the more heavenly light distills upon our souls. Gradually, things that before seemed hazy, dark, and remote become clear, bright and familiar with us.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#43. That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it, which will waste it; and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.

Matthew Henry

#44. But that from us aught should ascend to Heav'n So prevalent as to concern the mind Of God, high-bless'd, or to incline His will, Hard to belief may seem; yet this will prayer.

John Milton

#45. If we bring about that women seek to gain the rights of independence, to increase their sphere of responsibilities, and to incline toward studies, then human abilities will increase daily.

Kang Youwei

#46. The dank night is sweeping down from the sky
and the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.

Virgil

#47. The sight of his great valour and of the extremity of his passion might incline her heart to him.

C.S. Lewis

#48. Different minds incline to different objects; one pursues the vast alone, the wonderful, the wild; another sighs for harmony and grace, and gentlest beauty.

Mark Akenside

#49. It's true. We're really working hard to make Incline Lake a reality, but that doesn't mean that we're not focused on other projects to improve the basin - sometimes big projects.

Rex Norman

#50. We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.

Michel De Montaigne

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

Aldous Huxley

#52. Education must have two foundations
morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

Nicolas Chamfort

#53. 18O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#54. God and your heart both whisper - incline your ear - don't just learn from your head ...

John Geddes

#55. Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress them, and, in truth, our own private interest concurs in it, as it is making ourselves so many friends, instead of so many enemies.

Lord Chesterfield

#56. In my experience there is no such thing as luck, my young friend - only highly favorable adjustments of multiple factors to incline events in one's favor.

George Lucas

#57. What you had left before I saw you, of course I do not know; but I counsel you to resist firmly every temptation which would incline you to look back: pursue your present career steadily, for some months at least

Charlotte Bronte

#58. If you incline towards God the passions that enslaves you will be rendered powerless.

Sathya Sai Baba

#59. The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false.

Robert Browning

#60. He felt, rather than saw, her chin lift toward him. But instead of pulling her hand from his grip and turning away, she tightened her own fingers and unceremoniously, unexpectedly, threw herself down the incline, dragging him with her.
Dragging him with her!

V.S. Carnes

#61. The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.

Mahatma Gandhi

#62. I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.

Theodor Herzl

#63. There sure are a lot of stairs. Holy crap,will these things ever end?
Seriously?
MORE STAIRS?
This is ridiculous.I'm never buying a house with stairs.I won't even steps to my front door,just a gradual incline.

Stephanie Perkins

#64. Physiological expenditure is a superficial way of self-expression. People who incline toward physical love accomplish nothing at all.

Salvador Dali

#65. The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.

Michael York

#66. If we incline our wills in true earnest singleness to God, then we go with Christ out of this world, out from the stars and elements, and enter into God; for in the will of reason we are children of the stars and elements, and the spirit of this world ruleth over us.

Jakob Bohme

#67. They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.

Francis Bacon

#68. Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.

Jonathan Edwards

#69. You remind me
Define me
Incline me.
If you died
I'd.

Lemn Sissay

#70. Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.

George Saunders

#71. A little or superficial knowledge may incline a man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth him back to religion.

Anonymous

#72. [W]e all incline in astonishingly personal ways to idiocy and spite

Alain De Botton

#73. Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.

Samuel Johnson

#74. I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#75. Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.

Harold Nicolson