Quotes About Behavior

In one scene, when I was supposed to say, In a pig's eye you are, what came out was, In a pig's ass you are. Old habits die awfully hard.

the only thing that can make a man do something he doesn't like is guilt

Cleopatra descended from a long line of murderers and faithfully upheld the family tradition but was, for her time and place, remarkably well behaved.

He is drunk at least 22 hours of every 24 and never without one or two whores in company.")

I don't think anything can behave as unintelligently as intelligence.

Yes, it's comforting to know, when you think about it, that only man can be a bastard

Yes, it's comforting to know, when you think about it, that only man can be a bastard.

I've no intention of trying to dissuade you. I'll only say one thing: in an inhuman situation you're trying to behave like a human being. That may be admirable, but it's also futile. Though in fact I'm not even sure it's admirable—I'm not sure something foolish can also be admired.

Just as it is impossible to predict with complete accuracy the path of a single electron, so too you cannot know with certainty the future behavior of a single potato. Thus far observations show that man has mashed potatoes millions of times, but it is not inconceivable that one time in a billion the situation could reverse itself, that a potato could mash a man.

What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good?

According to the principle of indeterminism, the particles behave in a way that is defined only statistically, and within the limits of this indeterminism, they allow themselves to act in ways that are indecent or simply horrifying from the viewpoint of classic physics, because they violate the laws of behavior; but as this is happening within an interval of indefiniteness, they can never be observed in the act of breaking those laws.

Il comportamento logico ci abbandona molto prima che la vita stessa e non è cosa rara che l'uomo si comporti senza senso.

the subordinates had to behave that way; they were hiding from the victims in the hatred of them, but the hatred could not be produced in themselves except through acts of brutality.

Los políticos son demasiado tontos para que nosotros podamos prever sus acciones aplicando la razón

Pirx had long ago observed that a man could be judged better by his behavior toward robots than toward his fellow man.

Kazanmak bir insan?n güçlü olduÄŸunu deÄŸil terbiyeden yoksun olduÄŸunu gösteriyordu.

Emotions aren't doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings.

Males are also damaged by gender expectations that have changed enough to erode many old sources of masculine self-esteem but not enough to lessen the pressures on them to maintain or reinvent manly behaviors and images.29

We should not allow ourselves to be deceived by our outward show of 'civilized' manners and 'cultured' social behavior into believing that self-concern, desirous attachment, aversion, and indifference are steadily losing their hold over us.

Our evolved natures should be treated with respect, but not with deference. We did not evolve to be happy: rather we evolved to be happy, sad, miserable, angry, anxious, and depressed, as the mood takes us. We evolved to love and to hate, and to care and be callous. Our emotions are the carrots and sticks that our genes use to persuade us to achieve their ends. But their ends need not be our ends. Goodness and happiness may be goals attainable only by hoodwinking our genes.

When meeting royalty, it is very important, no matter how excited you are, not to vomit on them. Instead, vomit on the nearest commoner.

But you can't argue that the world isn't in an unhealthy moral state. Wouldn't think of it dearest. People lie, cheat, rape, swindle, kill, maim, torture and destroy. Bad thing. People also pop into bed together and cosy up. Good thing. If we think fucking is a sign of moral decay then we're a little bit stupid-stupid, aren't we?

I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not just between courses,but between mouthfuls. An American woman watched in disbelief. And you so intelligent! Excuse me? said tom Knowing those things are going to kill you she said and still you do it. How differently I might behave Tom said, if immortality were an option

Knowing those things are going to kill you, she said, and still you do it. How differently I might behave, Tom said, if immortality were an option.