Quotes About Behavior

Alcohol was the reason we formed complex civilizations, and having to deal with the complexities of civilization is the reason most of us need alcohol.

Much later I would see this kind of behavior with gorillas in captivity. They had nervous tics similar, if not identical, to mine: hair plucking, picking at scabs, scratching, rocking, chewing on themselves, and other repetitive and self-stimulating behaviors. One gorilla spun in tight, fast circles. Another bobbed her head up and down.

There's no excuse for excuses. Many of us are good at finding justification for behavior in men that isn't acceptable. We sometimes let them get away with things that hurt and upset us because we concentrate on what we like about HIM and the crumbs that give us gratification.

We become the way we speak.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.

It is difficult to imagine a stream that flows two directions at the same time, but this is just what the nervous system does. The failure to sufficiently appreciate this unity of seeming opposites leads us into separating too absolutely afferent from efferent, sensation from behavior, attitude from activity. And this leads us in turn into forgetting how powerfully touch, sensation, continually alters internal conditions and overt behavior.

Everyone has a capacity for cruelty. Not everyone gets the chance to exercise it.

I think people are much the same wherever you go. Some of them good, some of them clever, and some of them with the devil in them.

Gentlemen are champion sulkers so long as one doesn't call the behavior by that name.

Six-year-olds can't be assholes," Mary Alice says. "The fact that you think they can says a lot." "Yeah, it says that you've clearly never met a six-year-old.

The very fact that she had been in the grotto and viewed the collection would have catastrophic repercussions for herself and the throne. Married women did not conduct themselves in such a fashion, and married princesses with Puritanical mothers were held to a higher standard still.

The difference between men and women is this—if you catch a woman butt-naked, she tries to cover the private parts with her hands. A man will sit there just like you found him even if he doesn't have much to be proud of.

Once an asshole, always an asshole.

It makes you realize how basically everything we do comes down to a) mating or b) competing for resources. It's just like Animal Planet, only we've got Cover Girl and Victoria's Secret instead of colored feathers and fancy markings, and the violence occurs at the Nordstrom's Half-Yearly Sale.

But then again, a person could turn ugly. Their actual look could change when their actions were repulsive.

And because he was nice in the beginning did not mean he was a good man.

people bring their same selves to every situation, to all their relationships.

And conscience—his thinking was so black and white he thought I was going to hell for having premarital sex. It didn't cross his mind that throwing a water glass across the room at me when he'd found out I'd had premarital sex was not exactly heaven-bound behavior.

How you react to the issue, IS the issue.

Every thought precedes an action.

We as ambitious human beings can maintain self respect by influencing ourselves to behave as civil human beings and focus on our long term goals by not allowing others to take advantage of our lives.

Insanity can inhibit a person from thinking consciously about his or her thoughts and actions that can result him or her to perform dangerous acts without realizing at all.

How much you know it's depending upon your action not in your lip service.