Quotes About Behavior

Every way of life produces its own environment and in turn is influenced by that environment.

You don't train a dog in a training hall, jerking his neck or even giving him food treats. You train him using life rewards.

It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.

It's not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life.

Virtue is its own punishment.

Some people live life and others talk about it.

No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.

Actions lie louder than words.

I am sure there is a right way and a wrong way and in today's life, there are many different rules of being politically correct.

There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens.

People are shitty for a lot of reasons. Sometimes they're just shitty people. Sometimes people have been shitty to them and, even though they don't realize it, they take that shitty upbringing and go out into the world and treat others the same way. Sometimes they're shitty because they're afraid. Sometimes they choose to be shitty to others before others can be shitty to them. So it's like self-defensive shittiness.

People can be great, but they can also be lousy. I am often lousy.

My plan was to be the biggest asshole I could be—and I was)

Coffee drinkers are less likely to commit suicide than non–coffee drinkers. I

I like to think I'm above that kind of shitty behavior, so you can imagine how disillusioning it's been for me.

Male fruit flies also become a bit randy, although they are less likely to mate successfully—perhaps because, in their alcohol-induced haze, they frequently court other males by mistake, instead of females.

By sixteen months, they know what bothers their siblings and will annoy them on purpose.

My reasoning for going to the spirits, rather than calling them to us is not grounded in anything but my darker self, my suspicious nature and my mistrust of the behavior of other human beings. This culture has no training or grounding in how to respectfully treat the spirits that come. Forgive this harshness, but I have seen a great, disrespectful stupidity in many pagan communities, including our own.

No, I would say they are more arseholey than you.

Her bark's worse than her bite. Although her bite is pretty bad to begin with.

You own a dog but you feed a cat.

I've never known Margot to chicken out before, but I suppose in matters of the heart, there's no predicting how a person will or won't behave.

A reckless driver is better than a scared one; ask anybody

but I suppose in matters of the heart, there's no predicting how a person will or won't behave.