Quotes About Behavior

at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place.

She had, I realized, Retail Tourette's Syndrome, a compulsion to blurt advice. There was nothing she could do about it.

stripped to the waist; their two fingers jabbing the air; the vicious expressions on their faces as they hurled back the objects that had been thrown at them. Italians behaving like hooligans?

Could you imagine a busload from Milan parading around Trafalgar Square showing off their tattoos? "Why do you English behave like this?" one Italian asked me, believing that I was of the same nationality. "Is it something to do with being an island race? Is it because you don't feel European?

Our laws and regulations are so outdated. The phrase "government policy" doesn't exactly set people's hair on fire. But policies—everything from tax rules to environmental regulations—have a huge impact on how people and companies behave. We won't get to zero unless we get this right, and we're a long way from doing that. (I'm talking here about the United States, but this applies to many other countries too.)

Isn't it time we asked ourselves, are we willing to accept any behavior codified within religious or cultural practice? Is there no line to be drawn? If honor killings are okay, then why not virgin sacrifices or cannibalism or sex with children outside the church? We have perversely taken our notion of tolerance to such extremes that we've become tolerant of intolerance.

How come we play war and not peace? Too few role models.

Idiocy is the essence of the male mind.

Calvin: Dear Santa, before I submit life to your scrutiny, I demand to know who made YOU the matter of my fate?! Who are YOU to question my behavior, HUH??? What gives you the right?! Hobbes: Santa makes the toys, so he gets to decide who to give them to. Calvin: Oh.

Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I wonder which one YOU are. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles!

You've got to have something to eat, and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.

though they know in their adult hearts, even as they threaten to banish Timmy to bed for his appalling behavior, that their bosses are Big Fatty Stupids, their wives are Dopey Dopeheads and that they themselves are Mr. Sillypants.

The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world.

Repetition builds conditioning.

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing.

Man is neither angel nor beast, and unhappily whoever wants to act the angel, acts the beast.

Habit is a second nature thta destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

Man is neither angel nor brute, and the unfortunate thing is that he who would act the angel acts the brute.

We never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.

Man is neither angel nor beast, and it is unfortunately the case that anyone trying to act the angel acts the beast.

The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day conduct.

Si no actúas como piensas, vas a terminar pensando como actúas.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.