Quotes About Behavior

like any human practices, those of religions are not exempt from ethical questioning. Rituals and rites in groups change behavior, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. For the madness of crowds is a very close cousin to the fervor or congregations and the martial spirit of armies.

We can check on what people say by seeing what they do.

Reflection matters because it is continuous with practice. How you think about what you are doing affects how you do it, or whether you do it at all.

When these flies were put together in all-male groups they formed long, moving chains resembling conga lines, with each male attempting (unsuccessfully) to mate with the male in front of it.

La gente no nace buena o mala. Quizá nace con tendencias hacia un lado u otro, pero es el modo en que vives tu vida lo que importa. Y la gente a la que conoces.

More than ever before, consumers have the ability to unify their voices and coalesce their buying power to influence corporate behaviors.

When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change.

Be good, my dears, and if you can't be good don't do it in front of witnesses!

Our driver bumped the cars in front and behind us to make space, then we crossed on to the other side in our big 4x4 and started driving the wrong way up the motorway, dodging cars coming at us. I thought back to it afterwards and decided it had felt worryingly normal. I realised I'd been munching on a flapjack and Craig had been texting. I wondered if we were becoming just slightly too immune to risk.

1894-5, he won straight 5s (A grades) for Georgian singing and language and scores like 4, 5, 4, 5 in scripture. He was a model student, earning an 'excellent 5' for behaviour.

Domestic dogs are essentially wolf puppies that have grown up physically, but not reached emotional maturity. That's why many women prepare for life with a man by first practising with a dog.

The cities of the eastern American fall line are well known today—Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Fredericksburg, Philadelphia—even though the part that the very similar accidents of geology and river behavior played in their origins may have been long forgotten.

People might deserve a derogatory epithet, but it showed the mudslinger in just as bad a light.

Okay, seriously, I dont know if this is true or not, but I heard people who use profanity are trying to compensate for their lack of you know... size" -Tuck

your actions with holds your future

It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.

No respect is earned, if behavior is not of good.

The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domesticated animal

Everywhere he found his precept checkmated by his example.

In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

One of the few lessons I have learnt from studying people who do terrible things is that they are all too human. And that we are all capable of doing almost anything.

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

I would not hesitate to say that nine out of ten of the critics of the peace movement get the argument turned upside down. "You cannot change human nature" has become a sort of incantation with those critics. Perhaps you cannot "change human nature" I don't indeed know what the phrase means. But you can certainly change human behavior, which is what matters, as the whole panorama of history shows.

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.