Inclinations

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Chechens have inclinations towards independence.

Rather than be reach and submit to others, I would be poor and follow my own inclinations.

It was even whispered about the Court that the Queen had Ogreish inclinations, and that, whenever she saw little children passing by, she had all the difficulty in the world to prevent herself from falling upon them.

He spoke in little, sharp, jerky outbursts, and it seemed to me that to speak at all was very painful to him, and that his will all through was overriding his inclinations.

It is not a small kindness, which has come from very good inclinations.

The deeper we penetrate into the history of early institutions, the less we find grounds for the military theory of origin of authority. Even that power which later on became such a source of oppression seems, on the contrary, to have found its origin in the peaceful inclinations of the masses.

People with criminal inclinations, inclined toward authoritarianism, cynicism, manipulation, intrigue, and terror, sympathize with Stalin. Revolutionary leftist democrats with a decisive, intransigent character, ready to achieve a goal, much prefer Lenin.

The voice of destiny speaks through the inclinations of one's heart.

Later, he talks to the youth of Tanzania who played a greater role in the election, regardless of their political inclinations.