Quotes About Behavior

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

Habits...the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction...You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.

Las costumbres, Andrée, son formas concretas del ritmo, son la cuota de ritmo que nos ayuda a vivir.

Mi único diálogo verdadero es con este jarrito verde." Estudiaba el comportamiento extraordinario del mate, la respiración de la yerba fragantemente levantada por el agua y que con la succión baja hasta posarse sobre sí misma, perdido todo brillo y todo perfume a menos que un chorrito de agua la estimule de nuevo, pulmón argentino de repuesto para solitarios y tristes.

A cada sucesiva derrota hay un acercamiento a la mutación final, y que el hombre no es sino que busca ser, proyecta ser, manoteando entre palabras y conducta y alegría salpicada de sangre y otras retóricas como esta.

Habits, Andrea, are concrete forms of rhythm, are that portion of rhythm which helps to keep us alive.

Y ojalá que lo que estoy escribiendo le sirbalguno para que mire bien su comportamiento y que no searrepienta cuando es tarde y ya todo se haiga ido al corno por culpa suya!

They fail to see the extent to which America is "negrified" not only racially and demographically, but above all in its civilization, in the behavior, and tastes of Americans, even when there has been no actual mixing with negro blood.

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment: these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.

In the context of tragedy, all polite behavior is self-denial.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

People like her got addictive personalities. You don't want to be catching that.

Even geniuses can be A class assholes.

Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.

Isabel no era una mujer fácil, pero sí era una esnob, y una esnob radical siempre corre el riesgo de acabar comportándose como una meretriz.

It`s remarkable the truly stupid things people can do because it`s expected of them, or they think it`s expected of them.

There is no absolute right or wrong, good or evil, but there are good manners and common decency.

Ah, the people. My countrymen, my fellow citizens, my brothers. Mind you, some of them are all right, when you get to know them. But a lot of them aren't; and here's a funny thing, because when you mix them together, the ones that are all right and the ones that aren't, as often as not the resulting blend is far worse than the sum of its parts. Greedier, more cowardly, more stupid.

When I'm nervous, I talk a lot. And I'm rude to people. This is ridiculous.

He was always very kind and considerate to anybody below him," recalled Harold Cherniss. "But not at all to people who might be considered his intellectual equals. And this, of course, irritated people, made people very angry, and made him enemies." Wendell

his behavior in stormy seas struck some friends as an example of Robert's deeply ingrained arrogance, or perhaps a not very surprising extension of his inner resiliency. He had an irresistible urge to flirt with danger.