Quotes About Behavior

My actions speak harder than words.

I wonder why people commit crimes that are premeditated - to gain love, because of hatred, or for financial reasons.

Rudeness is not having fun, and if it is, it's at the expense of another person.

Although it shouldn't be, men behaving badly is sort of an occupational hazard for those working in Washington.

In some ways, 'decency' is a hazy concept; we know it when we see it.

It's through a leader's actions - what he or she does and says on a daily basis - that the essence of great leadership becomes apparent.

The way a woman or a man handles themselves, at a certain age I can't blame you for the way you act, because somebody didn't bring you up right, and the betterment is why I have a foundation titled Angels and Hearts. That's why I have Trey's Angels: to let women know that they are angels.

It's interesting that there are only two groups of people in our country who are not held accountable for their behavior or decisions. One is exempted by the constitution, and that is foreign diplomats. The other, through a loophole, is HMOs.

Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: 'You simply don't understand - how can a child be held responsible for doing such a dreadful thing to himself?' But then again, at other times I have to acknowledge: it was done wilfully.

Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself.

A helpful thing for me has always been - this is from a great acting teacher Declan Donnellan - is this beautiful way of expressing how and why people do things that other people may not do. It's a simple sentence that says, 'I understand you; you don't understand me.'

If you're on the pull, a hen party gaggle, a gang of rowdy chavs or a group of braying snotty bottys, then Baros is not for you - which means it's just grand for the rest of us.

When you look at elephant herds that are nonstressed, the males are never around. They mate, they go; they're loners.

There are apparently three factors that lead to longevity: heredity, habits, and what your wife will let you get away with.

It's a deal-breaker for me when a girl can't handle herself with class or acts different when you're not around me and things like that.

What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives.

I think a lot of people are curious about what makes people do what they do, and I guess my curiosity isn't hidden in any way.

In our high-tech, high-skilled economy where low-skilled work is being scaled back, phased out, exported, or severely under-compensated, all the right behavior in the world won't create better jobs with more pay.

I know what sexual harassment looks like. I'm also a lawyer by training and am highly aware that these behaviors should have real consequences.

It is a serious mistake to assume that people are simply always voting in their self-interest.

Not to be believed does not at all agree with princesses: for a real princess cannot tell a lie. So all the afternoon she did not speak a word. Only when the nurse spoke to her, she answered her, for a real princess is never rude—even when she does well to be offended.

But he remembered that even if she did box his ears, he musn't box hers again, for she was a girl, and all that boys must do, if girls are rude, is to go away and leave them.

For I had long thought that the way to make indifferent things bad, was for good people not to do them.

Nobody does anything bad all at once. Wickedness needs an apprenticeship as well as more difficult trades.