Quotes About Behavior

I have no use for people who exhibit manners.

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Righteousness" for Luke does not mean having the correct theology. Righteousness means behaving in a way marked by justice.

if you are foolish, foolish is going to stay out.

Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

Unhappiness does make people look stupid

It is a human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Il est dans la nature humaine de penser sagement et d'agir d'une façon absurde.

Os povos civilizados são como os cães de caça. Um instinto corrupto os incita a destruir sem proveito nem razão.

Je dis la folie, et non point la démence. La démence est la perte des facultés intellectuelles. La folie n'est qu'un usage bizarre et singulier de ces facultés.

Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Good habits result from resisting temptation.

We ike to think we are our own people, but sometimes it seems we are just playing out a script that was imprinted in us along ago.

Whether the world be good or evil I cannot say, but I am certain that it is men like Bazin who make it a better place. For, in believing life to be good and behaving accordingly, André had a beneficial effect on all who came in contact with him, and one could count on the fingers of one hand those who behaved badly toward him.

The structures of the mise-en-scène flow from it: decor, lighting, the angle and framing of the shots, will be more or less expressionistic in their relation to the behavior of the actor. They contribute for their part to confirm the meaning of the action.

the literary critic is guilty of imprudently prejudging the true nature of cinema, based on a very superficial definition of what is here meant by reality. Because its basic material is photography it does not follow that the seventh art is of its nature dedicated to the dialectic of appearances and the psychology of behavior. While

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

Qu'en savez-vous? dit le docteur. Mais quoi qu'il en soit, le nombre des épouses varie simplement comme le mode d'alimentation de l'espèce. Les lapins, les Turcs, les moutons, les artistes, et d'une façon générale tous les herbivores sont polygames; les renards, les Anglais, les loups, les banquiers, et d'une façon générale tous les carnivores sont monogames.

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.

Non c'è niente di inspiegabile in quello che sentiamo o facciamo, davvero; è solo che a volte le spiegazioni ci causano imbarazzo, e troviamo più conveniente non ricercarle con troppa insistenza.

Männer können im Prinzip ja auch Geschirr spülen und kochen und Kinder wickeln, aber sie tun es nicht. Warum? Weil sie fürchten, ihre Männlichkeit einzubüßen, wenn sie etwas tun, das als typisch weiblich gilt.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.