Quotes About Behavior

anomaly, when in fact it's how the girl usually eats: head down, minimal conversation, maximum speed in clearing what she'll eat from her plate.

If you get a cat because you just loooove cats, you're going to have plenty of days when you hate it because it's acting like a cat.

there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady.

We cannot control other people and their actions but we can control how we act and react to them.

Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.

Little choices determine habit; Habit carves and molds character Which makes the big decisions.

I am openly prideful, secretly judgemental, and cowardly in conflict.

I have established a reputation for being someone who, if you tell her to do one thing, will almost certainly do the other. I also have a temper.

the only truly fearless people I've ever met were straight-up sociopaths and a few exceptionally reckless three-year-olds—and those aren't good role models for anyone. The

sins of the flesh will not get you punished in the afterlife. They will only get you punished in this life.

Why did anyone ever act beyond the scope of base self-interest?

and inoffensive. She [the pet rabbit] particularly enjoyed sitting in the center of the kitchen table and from that spot would regard Ace, Esther and Hoffman gravely. Bonnie had a feline manner. Will she always be this judgmental? Esther wanted to know. Bonnie became more canine when she was allowed outdoors. She would sleep on the porch, lying on her side in a patch of sun, and if...

Fear had a tendency to drive away the courtesy of civilization.

Really, sometimes it would be much easier if one were allowed to simply hit gentlemen over the head.

She ate like a polite wolf.

What someone believes another person thinks is often wrong. That's why the law—our system of law—relies on the closest thing we can get to a fact: observed behavior, acts, and words.

if your child is not getting close to the amount of sleep on the following chart, he may be chronically overtired, and this will directly affect his behavior, moods, health, learning, and growth.

There is no creature better at delicate rudeness than a cat...

I don't know why I should have been so pleased to see Lucas behaving like a gentleman for a change. I never liked the man... But of course I know why. I would have defended Satan himself if he had been in disfavor with Emerson.

Cats cannot be held accountable for their actions, because they have no morals to speak of.

the problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure there going to have some pretty annoying virtues

But there are no men here," said Mrs. Wilkins, "so how can it be improper? Have you noticed," she inquired of Mrs. Fisher, who endeavoured to pretend she did not hear, "How difficult it is to be improper without men?

Have you noticed, how difficult it is to be improper without men?

There were many things she disliked more than anything else, and one was when the elderly imagined they felt young and behaved accordingly.