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Quotes About Behavior

Humans can be fairly ridiculous animals.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?
~ Barbara Kingsolver
You think you're no good, so you can't do good things. Jesus, Codi, how long are you going to keep limping around on that crutch? It's the other way around, it's what you *do* that makes you who you are.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
My prior experience with young men was to hear them swear 'Christ almighty in the craphouse!' at any dress with too many buttons.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
animals behaved with purpose, it seemed. Unlike people.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger?
~ Barbara Kingsolver
An animal is the sum of its behaviors, its community dynamics. Not just the physical body.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behavior in children, and medicate it in adults? That's so random. It's like this whole shady setup.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
He thinks people's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
He thinks people's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
He made a habit of prattling at the top of his lungs through Sunday dinners at our house. Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Putana thalassa pou se gamoun ta psaria." Meaning, "whore ocean where all the fish fuck each other.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behavior in children, and medicate it in adults? That
~ Barbara Kingsolver
whether we realize it or not, we automatically copy the facial expressions we see.
~ Barbara Pease
Tilting the head to the side is a submission signal because it exposes the throat and neck and makes the person look smaller and less threatening. Its probable origin is in the baby resting its head on its parent's shoulder or chest, and the submissive, nonthreatening meaning it conveys seems to be unconsciously understood by most people, especially women.
~ Barbara Pease
Head nodding has its origins in bowing to appear subordinate.
~ Barbara Pease
Dalam keadaan tertekan, wanita berbicara tanpa berpikir, sedangkan laki-laki bertindak tanpa berpikir. Tak heran 90% penghuni penjara sedangkan laki-laki dan 90% pengunjung terapis adalah perempuan.
~ Barbara Pease Allan
Indeed I do know what boys are like, especially that horrid little monster, Adele thought, but said, rather shakily, 'Yes, Emma, you are right to some extent. But occasionally children must be
~ Barbara Taylor Bradford
chastised when they have misbehaved, and taught the difference between right and wrong. Now, where is my dressing gown?
~ Barbara Taylor Bradford
I read Reinhold Niebuhr's Moral Man and Immoral Society, where Niebuhr talked about how the baser self has to deceive the better self to get the better self's buy-in for behavior it would never otherwise agree to.
~ Barry Eisler
but the truth was, his apology meant nothing to her. In her mind, behavior was the truth, not words.
~ Barry Eisler