Quotes About Behavior

I always tell people you can take the thugest thug in the world, and if you put a suit on him, he'll act different, trust me.

Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

I drink because she nags, she said I nag because he drinks. But if the truth be known to you, He's a lush and she's a shrew.

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

I always thought he looked like a postal worker who's about one write-up away from losing it completely." "Personally

It was strange to hear a wolf sigh in clear annoyance and see it roll its eyes. No. It wasn't strange…it was weird.

psychological factors

Discipleship requires at least three things of us: first, coming to love the Lord more than we love anything in the world; second, experiencing a change of heart so that we have no "disposition to do evil, but to do good continually"57—which doesn't mean we no longer make mistakes, it just means we don't want to; and third, behaving like true followers.

I knew books to be objects that loved to cluster and form disordered piles, but here books seemed robbed of their zany capacity to fall about, to conspire. In the library, books behaved themselves.

You can't fix stupid but you can arrest stupid.

Because of his hormones, he only has three emotions: crabby, hungry, horny.

Men can shift gears from romantic to practical - and so can the bitch.

There is no way to hold your own in a relationship and simultaneously accept rude behavior.

when a woman is too nice and will jump through hoops: It invites bad behavior.

Many women talk a lot out of nervousness-which is something that men will often perceive as insecurity.

Don't give a reward for bad behavior.

Success in love isn't about looks, it's about attitude.

Alice's dinner consisted of one-half cup medium-grain white rice (120 calories), four spears of asparagus (20 calories), and a pat of butter (40 calories). Bones watched as she used her index finger to smear the butter on an asparagus spear. Then she sucked her middle finger, pretending to remove the excess butter. The buttered finger scratched an ankle, and the calories disappeared into her leg warmer. "Tricky," he said under his breath. She smiled. "Just good technique.

Never mind what a man says; watch what he does.

A good therapy helps you develop a sense of irony about your life so that when you start to repeat old and unhelpful patterns, something within you says, "There you go again; let's call this to a halt. You can do something different." Often the first step toward doing something different is developing the capacity to not act, to stay still and reflect.

Addiction is to the habits of mind that technology allows us to practice.

Laboratory research suggests that how we look and act in the virtual affect our behavior in the real.