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Quotes About Behavior

When they held constant all the factors that typically push men into marriage, they found that actually getting married made a man less likely to commit crimes immediately thereafter.107 The causal pathway has been pithily explained by Johnny Cash: Because you're mine, I walk the line.
~ Steven Pinker
Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.
~ H. L. Mencken
When dogs and humans make eye contact, that actually releases what's known as the love hormone, oxytocin, in both the dog and the human.
~ Brian Hare
Love should be our walk and our talk.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Kids need love the most when they're acting most unlovable.
~ Erma Bombeck
The greatest obstacle to love is fear. It has been the source of all defects in human behavior throughout the ages.
~ Mahmoud Mohammed Taha
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
~ Irvin D. Yalom
Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
~ J. C. Ryle
Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.
~ Andrew Vachss
Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
~ St. Jerome
I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.
~ Amy Adams
Habit: Often mistaken for love.
~ Marlene Dietrich
habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.
~ Diane Ackerman
If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards
~ Rudyard Kipling
The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.
~ Aldous Huxley
When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.
~ Confucius
The test of love is in how we live.
~ Richard L. Evans
I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.
~ Ben Kingsley
Sometimes discipline, which means 'to teach,' is confused with criticism. Children-as well as people of all ages-improve behavior from love and encouragement more than from fault-finding.
~ Susan W. Tanner
The truth is that we all have lives that are complicated. We all get hurt by people we love sometimes. It's laughable to believe that anyone is immune. The important thing is how you behave.
~ Tamara Mellon
There is no right or wrong behavior. The only meaningful choice is between fear and love.
~ Gerald Jampolsky
Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people.
~ Madeleine L'Engle