#inclination

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

I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#because #character #did #extremes #fact

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

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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

A military life has ever comported with my inclination. ↗

— George Stoneman

#inclination #life #military

It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs. ↗

— David Sylvian

#inclination #into #natural #natural inclination #protest

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

— Daniel Defoe

#came #door #inclination #necessity #vice

I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned. ↗

— Kristin Hersh

#business #concerned #far #i #inclinations

I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want to see is a Conservative government in Ottawa. ↗

— Peter MacKay

#conservative government #finish #government #guess #i