Inclination Of Sorts Quotes & Sayings

That the Will is always determined by the strongest motive, — Jonathan Edwards

I've always been a contrarian of sorts. I'm not exactly sure where this quality comes from. I am among the approximately 13 percent of people who are left-handed, and a great deal has been written about the differences in the ways southpaws process ideas and motivations. In any event, always fitting in or going with the crowd has never been a big concern for me if my head and heart lay elsewhere. Admittedly, my inclination to stray from the pack didn't go over too well with my drill sergeant. My armed forces stint offered many lessons, one of which was that if I was to be successful as an individual in whatever I chose to do, I would have to work, and think, independently. — Charles Brandes

In the simplest language, spoken without a single word between out two bodies. — Cara McKenna

I did a lot of good work for the rest of the forty years ... science is an incremental thing. Everything builds on everything else, it's a pattern, it's a mosaic. — Gustav Nossal

[A man] finds in himself a talent which with the help of some culture might make him a useful man in many respects. But he finds himself in comfortable circumstances and prefers to indulge in pleasure rather than to take pains in enlarging and improving his happy natural capacities. He asks, however, whether his maxim of neglect of his natural gifts, besides agreeing with his inclination to indulgence, agrees also with what is called duty. He sees then that a system of nature could indeed subsist with such a universal law, [where] men... let their talents rest and resolve to devote their lives merely to idleness, amusement, and propagation of their species - in a word, to enjoyment; but he cannot possibly will that this should be a universal law of nature, or be implanted in us as such by a natural instinct. For, as a rational being, he necessarily wills that his faculties be developed, since they serve him, and have been given him, for all sorts of possible purposes. — Immanuel Kant

I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe. — Norman Rush

You judge the gods by who bows down at their altars? Ai Ling asked. — Cindy Pon

Dowager grumbled a bit about that, using the same peevish — Julia Quinn

At the end of the day, what matters most is not what tore you apart but the love than binds and heals your heart. — Kemi Sogunle

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos. — John Forbes Nash

I wanted to smack Logan over the head for his pessimistic attitude. — Micalea Smeltzer

I know that when he has sex he laughs like the world is a perfect place. And when he did that, my hands curled into fists because I thought about touching his face like maybe I could catch joy in my hands and hold it. — Karen Marie Moning

A cigarette, a sip, a question; breathing, drinking and asking, she demonstrates all the basic applications for the human mouth. — Chuck Palahniuk