Quotes About Behavior

The guidance counselor convinces them I need a reward-a chew toy or something.

Love messes you up and makes you do strange things

Does being forced to sit in time-out ever make little kids stop putting cats in the dishwasher or drawing on white walls with purple marker? Of course not. It teaches them to be sneaky and guarantees that when they get to high school they'll love detention because it's a great place to sleep.

People act poorly because other people have let them act poorly, and they have been able to get away with it for a lifetime. There is no sense of consequence. So I called a lawyer who looked up the

And morality is nothing if it is merely a form of good behavior.

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

Tell me how she behaves and I will imitate her. In the dark we are all meat and treacherous however our hair kinks or skin smells. Tell me, and I will give you the wedding-smile and fall into your arms like a mountain of silk.

effect of place upon human temperaments.

Unlike cats dogs never scratch you when you wash them. They just become very sad and try to figure out what they did wrong.

The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or unfortunate facts, religion, or politics.

If you're happy, you eat. If you're sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. It's, you know, it's addiction.

At the snowy summit of all these things, however, is the fact that you simply cannot go about locking your siblings in towers when they misbehave. It is unseemly and betrays a sad lack of creativity.

The dog has behaved himself quite well all day, and the show is doing fantastically well in the ratings... I have no reason to be sad!

Going viral isn't random, magic, or luck. It's a science.

Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.

Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.

Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.

Economics has been called the dismal science. Once you get to understand it, you may not find it so dismal, but you don't find it much of a science either.

If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action.

Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

For you teach very clearly by your behaviour how slowly and how meagerly our senses proceed in the investigation of ever inexhaustible nature.