Quotes About Behavior

Men don't know how to be really angry or really happy—and the ones that do, go to pieces.

Até hoje evito cometer grandes equívocos lembrando, como meu pai orgulhosamente sugeriu e eu orgulhosamente repito, que o senso fundamental de decência é distribuído de forma desigual no nascimento. E, após gabar-me assim da minha tolerância, devo confessar que ela tem limites. Um comportamento pode ser edificado na pedra ou nos pântanos mais lamacentos, mas a partir de certo ponto eu não me importo mais.

Kuigi alus, millele inimese käitumine toetub, võib olla nii kalju kui mädasoo, kaotab aluspõhi pärast teatava punkti ületamist minu silmis tähenduse.

I suppose she talks, and—eats, and everything.

I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and they'd be mean even if they were rich.

His idea of how the country was doing had been determined by the size of the butts he picked up off the sidewalk.

Su idea de cómo iban las cosas al país se medía por el tamaño de las colillas que recogía en la calle

Maggie was the only person she knew with genuine class. "Damn it to hell!" she yelled to the cats. "What ever happened to people behaving like ladies and gentlemen?" The cats had no clue, and got up and left the room. As she sat

Henry Kissinger once claimed, "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac." As seductive as power can be, psychological studies have shown it deadens the sensitivity of those who wield it. In short, power kills empathy.

Every man of action is basically cheerful and optimistic, because those who don't feel are happy. You can spot a man of action by the fact he's never out of sorts.

A society so undisciplined in its cultural foundations could obviously not help but be a victim

Only one thing astonishes me more than the stupidity with which most people live their lives, and that's the intelligence of this stupidity.

En mi época, se daba por supuesto que ser «bueno» políticamente le daba a uno licencia para desentenderse de la moral de cada día; ahora parece aceptado que con intentar portarse éticamente en lo privado ya se hace bastante y no hay por qué preocuparse de los líos públicos, es decir: políticos.

I discovered that everything you do is in response to a request or a suggestion made to you by some other party either inside you or outside. Some of these suggestions are good and praiseworthy and some of them are undoubtedly delightful. But the majority of them are definitely bad and are pretty considerable sins as sins go.

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.

Poorly written novels -- no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters -- are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying.

I believe firmly in mystery and manners.

He has the mistaken notion that a concern with grace is a concern with exalted human behavior, that it is a pretentious concern. It is, however, simply a concern with the human reaction to that which, instant by instant, gives life to the soul. It is a concern with a realization that breeds charity and with the charity that breeds action. Often the nature of grace can be made plain only by describing its absence.

When actors get a bad name for diva behavior - I've never seen it. Because my experience with people who are really famous actors is that they work really hard.

I am fascinated by how people eat and what it reveals about them.

I'm fascinated by real-time behavior.

Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.

I like people, and I like to be around people. They are fascinating. I like to behave like a common man. I am a common man.

The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.