Quotes About Behavior

I'm no longer a child." "Then perhaps it's time you listened to reason and stopped behaving like one.

Humans were predictable creatures. They were prisoners of their own emotions, unable to prevent themselves from repeating the same mistakes over and over.

son los actos y no las palabras los que marcan la diferencia.

Characters may lend the action a certain colouring, but it is what happens that comes first. To overlook this while watching a tragedy would be like treating a football game simply as the acts of a set of solitary individuals, or as chance for each of them to display 'personality'. The fact that some players behave as though this is precisely what football games are about should not distract us from this point.

Quem quiser saber aquilo que homens e mulheres creem precisa dar uma olhada no que eles fazem, não no que dizem

Many people, conservatives point out, grow up in dismal social conditions yet become law-abiding citizens. This is rather like arguing that because some smokers don't die of cancer, nobody who smokes dies of cancer.

Everyone has an effect on others. Some people inspire others to do great things. Some take people into crime with them. Those with the gift affect those around them even more.

Even a good person can be swept up with the sentiments of a crowd and come to hold perverse beliefs.

The bird cawed. The loud cry echoed off the mountains. The raven swooped down before them again, narrowly missing Richard's head. Gaining height, the bird circled. The air whistled through its feathers as it dove at them, driving them back from the water. "Is that bird crazy?" Kahlan asked. "Maybe it's protecting a nest? Or do all ravens behave like that?

that girl has a temper. a very bad temper. and you don't? richard asked. not like hers.

Your actions, not your feelings, speak the truth of your intent." Richard

Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?

Insanity is catching.

No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.

Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.

Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.

I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.

I would like you to teach [the orcs] civilised behaviour, said Ladyship coldly. He appeared to consider this. Yes of course, I think that would be quite possible, he said. And who would you send to teach the humans?

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

Even in a dream, even at a posh ball, the Nac Mac Feegle knew how to behave. You charged in madly, and you screamed... politely. Lovely weather for the time o' year, is it not, ye wee scunner! Hey, jimmy, ha' ye no got a pommes frites for an ol'pal? The band is playin' divinely, I dinna think! Make my caviar deep-fried, wilya?

He'sh mad? Sort of mad. But mad with lots of money. Ah, then he can't be mad. I've been around; if a man hash lotsh of money he'sh just ecshentric.