The truth is that trout fishermen scheme and lie and toss in their sleep. They dream of great dripping trout, shapely and elusive as mermaids, and arise cranky and haggard from their fantasies. They are moody and neglectful and all of them a little daft. Moreover they are inclined to drink too much.
Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.
If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, where ever you are. Perhaps he may be in great peril at that moment.
I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.
When you win an election, you are always inclined to believe you won for the reasons you wanted to win.
We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
Kim was more than a little inclined to snarl at him, but in the past few days she had learned that snarling at Mairelon did little good. He simply smiled and corrected her grammar.
My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York when I was 17 and I realised I wasn't Southern Baptist. That's not how I am inclined.
As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.
In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution than those who have believed too little.
People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.
If you're inclined to dismiss L. A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L. A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't like to be in anyone's gang; I'm a bit of a loose cannon.
Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved. Sometimes we are inclined to put up with a situation rather than endure. To endure is to bear up under, to stand firm against, to suffer without yielding, to continue to be, or to exhibit the state or power of lasting.
Passion is too important to be without, but too fickle to be guided by. Which is why I’m more inclined to say, 'Don’t Follow Your Passion, But Always Bring it With You. '
Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.
I am surprised by the word psychedelic. João Gilberto Noll does not accept realism in a straightforward way, but I am more inclined to call Quiet Creature a realist text than I am to call it a psychedelic one. The transcendent aspect of the psychedelic experience is totally absent.
When surprised and excited and innocent Gus emerged from Grand Gesture Metaphorically Inclined Augustus, I literally could not resist.