#inclination

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't? ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#even #full #had #house #how

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice. ↗

— Plautus

#inclination #overcome #reason #rejoice #you

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

#hearts #i #inclination #know #own

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. ↗

— Eustace Budgell

#friendship #good #habitual #happiness #inclination

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes. ↗

— Ayatollah Khamenei

#atmosphere #cast #causes #constitution #free

When I'm in town on Sundays, I sometimes go down to the Central Bar in the East Village to watch English football. But my natural inclination now is to get in the car with my wife and kids and get out of town. ↗

— Joe Scarborough

#car #central #down #east #east village

But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#amateur #any #became #compose #did

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

— Christine Baranski

#clothes #drinking #i #inclination #indulge

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

— Rumi

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