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Quotes About Behavior

Los hábitos son cosas que tú haces. ¡No son lo que tú eres! Tú tienes debilidades, pero tú no eres tus debilidades.
~ Rick Warren
If one does not make an ego out of gender, one would still know whether one is a man or a woman, gay, straight, bisexual, transgender—whatever else we may think of. But those identities need to fit very loosely and be worn very lightly. All sense of privilege or deprivation that has developed around one's gender identity, all rigidity regarding proper roles and behaviors for the various genders, must be cut through.
~ Rita M. Gross
Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.
~ Rita Mae Brown
They're walking around in clothing but they're still the same animals who lived in caves, feared the dark, and smashed one another over the head for beans.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Humans are fundamentally irrational. They use what precious rationality they have justifying their irrational behavior. A
~ Rita Mae Brown
Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.
~ Roald Dahl
Is she the only one at fault? For though she's spoiled, and dreadfully so, A girl can't spoil herself, you know. Who spoiled her, then? Ah, who indeed? Who pandered to her every need? Who turned her into such a brat? Who are the culprits? Who did that? Alas! You needn't look so far To find out who these sinners are. They are (and this is very sad) Her loving parents, MUM and DAD. And that is why we're glad they fell Into the garbage chute as well.
~ Roald Dahl
Ik heb gemerkt, juffrouw Engel, in mijn lange loopbaan in het onderwijs, dat een rotmeisje veel gevaarlijker is dan een rotjongen. Bovendien zijn ze veel moeilijker klein te krijgen. Een rotmeisje te grazen nemen is als achter een bromvlieg aan zitten. Je mept erop en het gore kreng is alweer weg. Rotmormeld, die meisjes.
~ Roald Dahl
The act of copulation is like that of picking the nose. It's all right to be doing it yourself but it is a singularly unattractive spectacle for the onlooker.
~ Roald Dahl
She was talking very fast and very loudly to everyone, but it was not easy to hear all that she said because she was chewing so ferociously upon a piece of gum at the same time.
~ Roald Dahl
Why do we do the things that we do?
~ Rob Bell
is a bullshit business that produces a product that causes as much or more cirrhosis, car wrecks, fetal alcohol
~ Rob Loughran
We certainly strive for reality in terms of asking our audience to believe the motivations, reactions, and behavior of our characters, but do I know when Veronica has time to do her homework? Not really.
~ Rob Thomas
Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?
~ Robert A Heinlein
He talked a lot about girls, too. His brother, Sam Houston Johnson, recalls that more than once, when he visited his brother at San Marcos, Lyndon, coming back into the room naked after a shower, would take his penis in his hand, and say: "Well, I've gotta take ol' Jumbo here and give him some exercise. I wonder who I'll fuck tonight.
~ Robert A. Caro
Just about everything a Nice Guy does is consciously or unconsciously calculated to gain someone's approval or to avoid disapproval.
~ Robert A. Glover
In dog obedience school we learned that if you want an undesirable behavior to go away, you stop paying attention to it.
~ Robert A. Glover
In many ways, humans aren't much different from pets. People often behave the way they have been trained to behave. For example, if a person gives his dog a treat when he pisses on the carpet, the dog will keep pissing on the carpet. The same is true for humans. If the Nice Guy reinforces his partner's undesirable behaviors, she will keep behaving in undesirable ways.
~ Robert A. Glover
How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Have you ever known me to be rude to a lady? I have seen you be intentionally rude to a woman. I have never seen you be rude to a lady.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
All human behavior, all human motivations, all man's hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind's tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction.
~ Robert A. Heinlein