(103 quotes found)
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”
Thomas Jefferson
“He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands upon others”
Andre Gide
“Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.”
William Shakespeare
“It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.”
Charles Baudelaire
“Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.”
Jimmy Carter
“I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions”
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
“[W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro is about to sing. So often the request has seemed to savor of the feeling that we could do this and this alone.”
Countee Cullen
“One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to do is worth all of the good thought, warm feelings, and passionate prayers in which idle men indulge themselves.”
David McKay
“`I am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.”
Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.
“The rocks of the original soil, he wrote, are arranged in perpendicular layers or inclined towards the horizon. They are composed of quartz, granite, shale, slate and talcose.”
Antoine Lavoisier
