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Quotes About Behavior

Many people preach righteousness and perform sins.
~ Proverb
Fucking for absolutely no reason is another thing that separates us from the animals."
~ Psylance
Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.
~ Publilius Syrus
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
~ Publilius Syrus
The empire of custom is most mighty.
~ Publilius Syrus
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
~ Publilius Syrus
Break the leg of a bad habit.
~ Puerto Rican Proverb
We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.
~ Pythagoras
A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.
~ Quentin Crisp
Manners are love in a cool climate.
~ Quentin Crisp
This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
~ Quentin Crisp
You can't trust Melanie, but you can trust Melanie to be Melanie.
~ Quentin Tarantino
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
~ R. D. Laing
But the disturbing truth, as studies by the secular networks as well as the Christian Broadcasting Network show, is that the viewing habits of Christians are no different than those of non-Christians!
~ R. Kent Hughes
History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.
~ R. Scott Bakker
Beliefs are the foundation of actions. Those who believed without doubting, he would say, acted without thinking. And those who acted without thinking were enslaved.
~ R. Scott Bakker
the repression of primitive, violent impulses in favor of civilized behavior was a control mechanism for the more shrewdly aggressive dominators who successfully channeled *their* primitive, violent impulses into a socially acceptable form known as 'ruthlessness,' while monopolizing the right to use outright violence as a last resort for maintaining an otherwise indefensible accumulation of power and wealth.
~ R. U. Sirius
It wasn't like he was purposely being an asshole. It just came naturally to him.
~ R.L. Mathewson
person's behaviour changes mysteriously according to circumstances. So, it is impossible for anyone to understand it. Explaining this, Chanakya says that like the Neem tree (Indian
~ R.P. Jain
to test the purity of gold, it is heated at high temperature; it is tapped, hammered and cut. That gives it the glitter. Similarly, an honest person is tested for purity by his acts of donation, good deeds, virtuosity, sacrifice and behaviour. Any person, who possesses all these qualities, glitters like gold.
~ R.P. Jain
My half brothers, like so many men and boys, have the impatience of the entitled.
~ Rabih Alameddine
My half brothers, like so many men and boys, have the impatience of the entitled. (Aaliya)
~ Rabih Alameddine
Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.
~ Rachel Blanchard