Quotes About Behavior

It's different for the sociopaths, of course. They're just along for the ride.

And I wondered if these people too, who seemed able to move as they wished about the yard, were in truth constrained to behave as they did and were only pretending to be free, as we ourselves had done when we came in procession through the town.

What shall we say to the wicked man to make him be good, if we cannot reward him with a heaven and frighten him with a hell? Well, my first answer is that we have been trying this process for a couple of thousand years, and the results seem to indicate that we might better seek out some other method of inducing men to behave themselves.

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So you're a functioning drunk. You don't have to be falling down in the street or pissing yourself or sleeping with unsuitable men or losing whole days at a time to be a drunk.

The key to our present behaviour lies in our past.

You can tell a lot about people by the way they treat other people's office staff.

Years ago, I had a conversation with an actor who maintained, 'Once you can fake sincerity, you can achieve anything.' Even when I had no respect for the people I was dealing with, it was important to behave as if I did.

I am a cultural historian specializing in fashion, and the book you are now reading as part of an ongoing project on the relationship between clothing and sexuality. I am interested in exploring fashion as a symbolic system linked to expression of sexuality – both sexual behaviour (including erotic attraction) and gender identity.

People who are in the right often don't know how to behave. They lose their tempers and swear. They act tactlessly and intolerantly. Usually they get blamed for every that goes wrong at home or work. While those who are in the wrong, those who hurt others, always know how to behave. They act calmly, logically and tactfully-and appear to be in the right.

I was afraid she was on something." "No, she's just being Cheryl. Her courtroom rep is that she wins cases by talking the jury to death.

To conclude wars decisively and achieve prewar aims, the victor must defeat, and often even humiliate militarily, an enemy and force the loser to abandon prewar behavior before offering a magnanimous peace. "Humiliate," here, does not mean to gratuitously insult or ridicule a prostrate enemy but rather to show him that the wages of his unprovoked aggression are the end of his ability to make war on others.

Sometimes citizens can do as much harm to their commonwealth by violating custom and tradition as by breaking laws.

Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.

There are no bad herbs or bad men; there are only bad cultivators.

Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.

The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness.

I tell you, monsieur, it's the end of the world. The students' behaviour has never been so outrageous. It's all these damnable modern inventions that are the ruin of everything.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Certaines personnes sont méchantes uniquement par besoin de parler. Leur conversation, causerie dans le salon, bavardage dans l`antichambre, est comme ces cheminées qui usent vite le bois; il leur faut beaucoup de combustible; et le combustible, c'est le prochain.

He was full of sly caution and clumsy recklessness. He

As we have just observed, nothing trains children to silence like unhappiness.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

In a calm and even situation, Thenardier possessed all that is required to make—we will not say to be—what people have agreed to call an honest trader, a good bourgeois. At the same time certain circumstances being given, certain shocks arriving to bring his under-nature to the surface, he had all the requisites for a blackguard. He was a shopkeeper in whom there was some taint of the monster.