Quotes About Behavior

There are those individuals who cannot feel a semblance of aliveness unless they are fused/bonded to another in a maladaptive attachment. In addition, the pain is familiar. It is what the child got used to. Another reason is that the disparaging partner who is cruel and sadistic can also be loving and kind. This fuels the already existing confusion and the fantasy that "If I behave, I will be loved.

Drinking your milk and talking at the same time may result in your having to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwords.

She wasn't nice. She was rarely polite. And no one who knew her well would have called her a generous woman.

by the age of six he had realized that] it was useless to behave and maybe also to believe

Dueling restrained violence, Preston argued; indeed, even the mere threat of a duel urged good behavior. Wise agreed. When it came to slander, he noted, "The law cannot restrain it—a pistol sometimes will.

One reason people might prize socially constructed reinforcement over intrinsic reinforcement is sociocultural programming.

Harassers were often accepted, or even cheered, as mischievous bad boys.

With her mother, Leeda acted a lot.

Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?

There was nothing to be gained by losing his temper. There was never anything to be gained by that.

Treat a man like a dog and sooner or later he'll bite you,

Mercy and weakness are the same thing in war, and there's no prize for nice behavior.

I never saw men act with such ignorance, violence and self-serving malice as when energised by a just cause.

It was what you gave out that made a man, not what you got back.

She never saw more damage done than by folk acting on high principle.

You get what you give, in the long run, and manners cost nothing.

The simple truth is this: Most humans are very much alike. The simple and obvious truth is that there are very few variables to what a person might do, think, fear or desire in any given situation.

Olivia was moody. Moody wasn't a word with which she was very familiar, but if it meant that her moods swung back and forth for no reason at all, and that she felt crabby and wanted to be alone more often than she felt content and friendly, and that she was often tempted to slam her bedroom door - preferably in someone's face - well, then, moody described perfectly the way she'd been feeling lately.

When frazzled, people tend to revert to the familiar and the well rehearsed.

MUCH of the naughtiness in school is a result of the child's lack of interest in his work, augmented by the physical inaction that results from an attempt to sit quietly.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

They didn't need as many external rules as we did because they had internalised the standards of decency.

Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.

On peut rater sa vie par politesse