Quotes About Behavior

what is startling about the notion of a victimless crime is that even when the behavior in question is genuinely victimless, its criminality is still affirmed by those who are eager to punish it.

Among the many paradoxes of human life, this is perhaps the most peculiar and consequential: We often behave in ways that are guaranteed to make us unhappy.

The urge for retribution, therefore, seems to depend upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior. Despite

The problem with a lot of church people," Craw said, "is that they're trying to be holier than Jesus.

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

ACCUSTOMANCE  (ACCU'STOMANCE)   n.s.[accoûtumance, Fr.]Custom, habit, use. Through accustomance and negligence, and perhaps some other causes, we neither feel it in our own bodies, nor take notice of it in others.Boyle'sWorks.

Pride is undoubtedly the original of anger; but pride, like every other passion, if it once breaks loose from reason, counteracts its own purposes.

He has travelled. But is not human nature the same in every country, allowing only for different customs? — Do not Love, hatred, anger, malice, all the passions in short, good or bad, shew themselves by like effects in the faces, hearts,  and actions of the people of every country?

As for mothers, many of them are for escorting their daughters to public places, because they themselves like racketing.

Sir Charles has made a man of him, once more. His dress is as gay as ever; and, I dare say, he struts as much in it as ever, in company that knows not how he came by it. He reformed! — Bad habits are of the Jerusalem artichoke-kind; once planted, there is no getting them out of the ground.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Indeed, we can always better understand and appreciate a man's real character by the manner in which he conducts himself towards those who are the most nearly related to him, and by his transaction of the seemingly commonplace details of daily duty, than by his public exhibition of himself as an author, an orator, or a statesman.

Sopan santun banyak manfaatnya, tetapi tidak menuntut bayaran.

From something as simple as what goes in to a good meatloaf to the not so simple - religion, culture, how you should vote, every damn thing you think or believe, your reactions, your behavior - were partially shaped by who and what your parents were.

He was rude and disrespectful and treated women abominably. Perhaps that was his attraction, what made him desirable. Geographically

Na?in na koji se kretao, njegov miris, na?in odevanja, sve su to postali kriterijumi na osnovu kojih ?e odsada pa zauvek procenjivati muškarce.

Don't mind her. She keeps her nose so high in the air, she's liable to drown in a good rainstorm.

Unlike the recorded teachings of Jesus, however, anarchist ideology embraced the considered use of violence. Lucy Parsons avowed that had she been at Haymarket Square when the police arrived, had she seen their behavior and heard what transpired, she would have "flung the bomb [her]self.

The point here is to do something. Not just anything, not waste our time just blowing off steam. Let's all of us pick some part of our exploitative economy that especially galls us, consider our own assets and aptitudes, and change our behavior.

You know, feeling and action are always linked, one can't exist without the other. It's sort of a hippie thing.-Wes

which is completely out-of-line behavior. Then you are wholly within your rights to stomp on their foot. No, Delia said, over her shoulder. Actually, you're not. Just excuse yourself as politely as possible, and get out of arm's reach. Kristy looked at me, shaking her head. Stomp them. she said, under her breath. Really

Being nice was the ideal, the one place where people didn't get loud, or so quiet they could scare you. If you could just be nice, then you wouldn't have to worry about arguments at all. But being nice wasn't as easy as it seemed, especially when the rest of the world could be so mean.

In Anger Management,' he said,'we had to do all this role-playing stuff. You know, to get used to handling things in a less volatile way.' 'You role-played,' I said, trying to picture this. 'I had to. It was court-ordered.

You're always a kid around your parents… Unless they're acting like children. Then you don't get the chance.