Quotes About Behavior

I'm an incompetent consumer. I have two settings: Buy and Don't Buy.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

Many children fully realize their parents see them as astonishing creatures and incorporate that into their daily presentations. That is, they throw their stuff on the floor because if you are truly amazing you can pretty much do what you want. Right?

I think that, in the '60s, you had lots of things going on in the culture which tended to decrease attraction to marriage, attraction to religion, and which tended to increase attraction to crime.

Our children, manipulated to become exemplary consumers, increasingly admit they do not feel 'in control' of their own Internet use.

Time does not run in a straight line, like the markings on a wooden ruler. It stretches and shrinks, as if the ruler were made of balloon rubber. This is true in daily life: We perk up during high drama, nod off when bored. Markets do the same.

I do really take it for an indisputable truth, and a truth that is one of the corner stones of political science--the more strictly we are watched, the better we behave.

Men survey women before treating them. Consequently how a woman appears to a man can determine how she will be treated.

The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing--each his own interest.

I have always observed, that a rake who is a minute philosopher, when grown old, becomes a sharper in business.

In time action becomes habit, and habit can wear reason away, leaving no traces.

Ultimately, however, there is no absolute good or bad, no timeless right or wrong, only that which does or does not advance our (i.e. God's) existential purpose. Rules of proper behavior depend upon time and place, because the consequences of the things we do largely depend on the context in which they are done. Consider how the sex act can be a crime or a consummation of love, depending solely on the context in which it is performed.

One teacher, Susan Atkins evoked the experience of many of her colleagues when she said, "It's not just one classroom. It's every class. There's a core and you never know what they're going to throw at you, and the other kids watch, wondering if the 'core' is going to come after them.

The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.

Turkish drivers are maniacs.

Chez les fourmis, l'éjaculation tue le mâle. Chez d'autres espèces c'est la femelle, qui, une fois comblée, massacre son bienfaiteur. Tout bonnement parce que les émotions lui ont ouvert l'appétit. Il faut se rendre à l'évidence : l'univers des insectes est globalement un univers de femelles, plus précisément de veuves. Les mâles n'y ont qu'une place épisodique...

Vägivallatsejad on tavaliselt inimesed, kellele pole õpetatud teistsuguseid mooduseid end arusaadavaks teha.

Gentleman?v odÄ›v není žádný pÃ…â"¢evlek. Oble?ení, které nosí, obléká proto, že se v nÄ›m cítí dobÃ…â"¢e, a nikoliv aby na nÄ›koho udÄ›lal dojem. Skute?ný gentleman se podÃ…â"¢ídí pouze daným okolnostem.

M?že se ti zdát ponÄ›kud absurdní, ale je rozhodnÄ› lepÅ¡í pÃ…â"¢ijít ve?er do spole?nosti ve svetru, džínsách a a bundÄ› Barbour než v nevhodných botách nebo ve Å¡patnÄ› stÃ…â"¢iženém smokingu.

Jedno je jasné: Å¡aty z muže gentlemana neudÄ›lají, ale naopak opravdový gentleman z?stane gentlemanem i bez nákladného odÄ›vu. Usuzovat z toho, že vnÄ›jÅ¡í dojem není d?ležitý, by vÅ¡ak byla chyba.

Stojící ?lovÄ›k m?že dát pohodlnÄ› ruce do kapes, což není v Anglii považováno za nevhodné.

There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

So I stopped talking about it. There's no need to talk, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.