Quotes About Behavior

Their behavior is defined and can be judged only within this given situation, and it is possible that in this situation, limited like every human situation, they realize a perfect assertion of their freedom. But once there appears a possibility of liberation, it is resignation of freedom not to exploit the possibility, a resignation which implies dishonesty and which is a positive fault.

It is useless to try to integrate life and death and to behave rationally in the presence of something that is not rational: each must manage as well as he can in the tumult of his feelings. I can understand all last wishes and the total absence of them: the hugging of the bones or the abandonment of the body of the one you love to the common grave.

Whatever form, however, Antinomianism may assume, it springs from legalism. None rush into the one extreme but those who have been in the other.

Why, there's no country in the world that can get more hysterical—yes, or more obsequious!—than America.

Honestly, I think that the sense of humor of the people that TALK about having a 'sense of humor' is a worse vice than drinking.

So far as I can see, he brooded, travel consists in perpetually finding new things that you have to do if you're going to be respectable.

Baz? insanlar?n cana yak?nl??? kaba insanlar?n sald?rganl???ndan daha ölümcüldür. S. Holmes. Hikayeleri ~ Åžansl? MüÅŸteri.

Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.

I wondered if [people] weren't psychic because they didn't have the ability, or because they didn't want to have it. [...] Later I'd come to understand how negative behavior and thought patterns block people from their psychic sense.

Honestly, it's so easy to get what you want from people if they think you're a psycho.

I've confromted enough assholes in my time. They never realize they're assholes. Not once. Whatever you say.

When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card. (Sadie Lancaster - to Lara Lington)

You're working for me cut out the attitude.

Should I tolerate it as normal male behaviour, like when he gets a cold and starts Googling nose cancer symptoms discharge nostrils ?

She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the damage they're doing when it's too late.

swivel around wildly and finally spot Minnie. She's balanced on a stone bench, tussling with Suze's son Wilfrid over a red plastic truck. "Pleeease!" she's yelling crossly. "Pleeease!" Now, to my horror, she starts hitting Wilfrid with the truck, yelling with each blow: "Please! Please! Please!" The trouble is, Minnie hasn't really absorbed the spirit of the word "please.

And I can't sigh or roll my eyes or exclaim, "I'm so stressed!" because they, I now realize, are things you do when you're not really worried. When you're really worried, you go silent and pick at your fingernails and forget to put your lipstick on.

Trish and Eddie are darting glances at each other. They really are the oddest people.

I was re-reading The Gracious Hostess last night, and it says that even if your guest is annoying you, you must behave with charm and decorum. Well, fine. I can be charming. I can be decorative.

Harsh ways are taught by harshness.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Anxiety can just as well express itself by muteness as by a scream.

Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word. [Of him that speaks ill, consider the life more than the word.]

Life in clubs is no paltry sign of the times we live in. Here gentlemen gamble with others whom they would not dream of inviting to their homes.