Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

#inclination

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #inclination




Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.


Pope John Paul II


#avoid #desire #every #evil #hard

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.


Samuel Richardson


#children #education #figure #inclinations #made

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


Samuel Johnson


#him #inclination #just #leads #little

Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities.


William Lyon Mackenzie King


#dangerous #escape #face #facts #frequently

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.


George Saunders


#fiction #god #had #i #i think

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

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.


George A. Smith


#conscience #inclination #listening #lives #mind

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.


Daniel Defoe


#came #door #inclination #necessity #vice

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.


Martha Beck


#certain #constantly #eclectic #exactly #feel






back to top