Quotes About Behavior

Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.

So far as other people are concerned, you are your behaviour; so far as you are concerned, you are your thoughts and feelings.

My bottom is my deliquent daughter. I lavish praise upon her cheeks when she's well behaved and when she gets out of control, I pretend she isn't mine.

We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing their behavior as the result of forces beyond their control.

Oddly then, in our search for meaning, we often assign victims too much blame for their assaults, and offenders too little. Our inconsistencies do not seem to trouble us, but they are truly puzzling. After all, if the offender is not to blame for his behavior, why would the victim be, no matter what she did our didn't do? Our views make sense, however, if you think that we are trying to reassure ourselves that we are not helpless and, that, in any case, no one is out to get us.

People, in general, tend to project onto others their own state of mind. Well-meaning people inevitably assume other people are well meaning. People who cheat assume everyone cheats. People who deceive assume everybody deceives. Confessions of a Whistle-Blower: Lessons Anna C. Salter. Ethics & Behavior, Volume 8, Issue 2 June 1998

Humor is probably species specific

I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.

Hark ye,'said the father, 'a bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse. You've not learned your trade yet, Samson.

and finally his current self-awareness, tinged with compulsions whose origins he couldn't access or control.

Most of the time, however, the cruelty of Soviet camp guards was unthinking, stupid, lazy cruelty, of the sort that might be shown to cattle or sheep.

Karen Stenner, a behavioral economist who began researching personality traits two decades ago, has argued that about a third of the population in any country has what she calls an authoritarian predisposition, a word that is more useful than personality, because it is less rigid.

algorithms also favor emotions, especially anger and fear. And because the sites are addictive, they affect people in ways they don't expect. Anger becomes a habit. Divisiveness becomes normal.

Is there some kind of rule for when Sam should be a boy and when he's a Wolf?" "A Wolf lifts his leg and yellows up the snow. A boy has to use the toilet." "And that will work?" "Only if he needs to pee.

O sangramento da lua só me deixa abalada durante três dias num mês. Uma pila torna um homem potencialmente estúpido a qualquer hora do dia.

He hadn't observed Kowalski or Debany licking their mates' hands.

Marian sank down on one of the kitchen chairs and braced her head in her hands. He got mad at her for sweeping up spilled sugar but dragged her outside to throw a skillet at bales of hay. She threw a pot at him and missed, so he was going to teach her how to clobber him with a skillet. Even taking into account that he was an Eyrien male, there was only one explanation for his behavior. The man was insane.

Moon's blood only throws me offstride three days out of a month. A cock makes a man potentially stupid at any hour of any day.

Whether it has two legs or four, just because a pup yaps at you doesn't mean you have to pay it any mind.

What interests me is what dogs bring out in people, mirroring humanity's best and worst.

The evidence is clear that women more than men are relationship special­ists. Women's interpersonal sensitivity has been examined by looking at the ability to read non-verbal information from other's behavior such as posture, vocal inflection, and facial expression. Many studies have examined sex dif­ferences in accuracy and the results clearly favor women.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do." —JANE AUSTEN, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

God's people don't always act like God's people should.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.