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Quotes About Behavior

It is observed, that the red haired of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest, whom yet they much exceed in strength and activity.
~ Jonathan Swift
Thus the young ladies are as much ashamed of being cowards and fools as the men, and despise all personal ornaments, beyond decency and cleanliness: neither did I perceive any difference in their education made by their difference of sex, only that the exercises of the females were not altogether so robust; and
~ Jonathan Swift
seen the moral of my own behavior very frequent in England since my return, where a little contemptible varlet, without the least title to birth, person, wit, or common-sense, shall presume to look with importance, and put himself upon a foot with the greatest persons of the kingdom.
~ Jonathan Swift
nas relações vulgares da vida, parecem estúpidos, mazombos, enfadonhos, malcriados.
~ Jonathan Swift
God wants us to be a good example to others who are observing us.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
Bradshaw llama a este recuerdo de la herida primigenia "el niño herido". Es este niño herido que llevamos dentro el que nos hace actuar así.
~ Jorge Bucay
The acts of madmen exceed the previsions of the sane.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
~ Josef Albers
Social structures, types and attitudes are coins that do not readily melt. Once they are formed they persist, possibly for centuries, and since different structures and types display different degrees of this ability to survive, we almost always find that actual group and national behavior more or less departs from what we should expect it to be if we tried to infer it from the dominant forms of the productive process.
~ Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter
The instinctive preference was to read rather than to act. No wonder our actual lives were more or less a shambles
~ Joseph Brodsky
Oh, when I was in love with you,Then I was clean and brave,And miles around the wonder grewHow well I did behave.And now the fancy passes by,And nothing will remain,And miles around they'll say that IAm quite myself again.
~ A. E. Housman
Oh, when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.
~ A.E. Housman
Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep silent.
~ Éliphas Lévi
La neurasthénie, le bégaiement, les phobies, la kleptomanie, certaines paralysies, etc., ne sont autre chose que le résultat de l'action de l'inconscient sur l'être physique ou moral. - Neurasthenia, stuttering, phobias, kleptomania, certain paralyzes, etc., are nothing other than the result of the action of the unconscious on the physical or moral being.
~ Émile Coué
Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
~ Émile Durkheim
No se puede negar que la naturaleza no tenga en nosotros gran influencia como para llevarnos donde quiere y hacernos bien o mal nacidos; pero hay que confesar que tiene sobre nosotros menor poder que la costumbre, porque lo natural, por bueno que sea, se pierde si no es cuidado, y la educación nos hace siempre a su manera, como ésta sea, a pesar de la naturaleza" Página 26, Discurso sobre la servidumbre voluntaria
~ Étienne de La Boétie
Then why are you begging? – To find out what effect it has and to observe people's reaction
~ Ágota Kristóf
He's not a bad guy, deep down," I said. My dad slipped the key into the door. "Deep down, no one is. But you make choices.
~ Aaron Starmer
History teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." --
~ Abba Eban
In plain English: people who lie to themselves make good liars. And good liars usually have more sex.
~ Abby Ellin
The ability to lie successfully, then, is partly correlated with savvy social skills. Sucking up.
~ Abby Ellin
Both psychopaths and sociopaths hide their true selves behind a mask, as American psychiatrist Hervey
~ Abby Ellin
But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.
~ Abigail Adams
Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
~ Abraham Cahan