Quotes of Inclination - somelinesforyou

“ We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now. ”

- George Sheehan

“ Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. ”

- Reinhold Niebuhr

“ Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. ”

- Ovid

“ Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Taste may change, but inclination never. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them. ”

- Edward R. Murrow

“ Your heart's desires be with you! - As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I do desire we may be better strangers. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. ”

- Mark Twain

“ By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. ”

- Seneca

“ We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long. ”

- Eugene Delacroix

“ In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. ”

- George Aiken

“ Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due. ”

- George Washington

“ The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand. ”

- Mordecai W. Johnson

“ My master is of churlish disposition And little recks to find the way to heaven By doing deeds of hospitality. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Wherever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. ”

- Thomas Haliburton

“ Don't try to write to the trend of the moment. ”

- Alan Dean Foster

“ The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms. ”

- Dylan Moran

“ Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations. ”

- Erwin W. Lutzer

“ Will and intellect are one and the same thing. ”

- Baruch Spinoza

“ Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ Truth is a tendency. ”

- R. Buckminster Fuller

“ Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horsesAll bent upon killing, because their "of courses"Are not quite the same. ”

- Amy Lowell
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