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Quotes About Behavior

Food didn't kill people, for God's sake, people killed people. With their harping, and criticizing, and careful living.
~ Nina Killham
La humanidad está muy cerca del salvajismo y tiene que regirse por normas. De lo contrario, nos hundiríamos en nuestra propia naturaleza animal y pereceríamos.
~ Noah Gordon
I do not feel that we should set up people as "models"; rather actions, thoughts, principles.
~ Noam Chomsky
The advertising industry's prime task is to ensure that uninformed consumers make irrational choices, thus undermining market theories that are based on just the opposite.
~ Noam Chomsky
This is a very important kind of step, to think about the fact that much of behavior is rule-bound, and this is what Giddens is thinking about when he says that practical consciousness works for most everyday situations, but there are circumstances in which we begin to become aware that we have internalized a whole number of rule-governed behaviors (1984).
~ Noam Chomsky
The new stage of capitalism recognizes that serving the genuine needs of people can be less lucrative than selling predictions of their behavior.
~ Noam Chomsky
There are plenty of young people who are appalled by the behaviour of the older generation, rightly, and are dedicated to trying to stop this madness before it consumes us all. Well, that's the hope for the future.
~ Noam Chomsky
Men are little boys, she would have said as she lifted her glass. Don't stir or you'll bruise the ice cubes.
~ Nora Ephron
Men are boys in bigger packages.
~ Nora Roberts
Studies show adolescent males often make decisions based on sex. Many fail to grow out of it.
~ Nora Roberts
And sometimes those major, monumental crises have no effect on certain types. Which means, no matter what the circumstances, assholes remain assholes.
~ Nora Roberts
Why is it men think beating on each other fixes anything?' 'Why do women think eating chocolate does? It's the nature of the beast.
~ Nora Roberts
That dog'll roll in the snow, run in the snow, eat the damn snow, but he wont throught it to shit. I dont clear the path, he shits right by the door. Why is that? Ryder asked. Owen replied, Hence the name. The name of Ryder's dog...Dumbass...
~ Nora Roberts
Men are pigs.
~ Nora Roberts
Major, monumental crises bring out the best or the worst in us—sometimes both. And sometimes those major, monumental crises have no effect on certain types. Which means, no matter what the circumstances, assholes remain assholes.
~ Nora Roberts
You can have a coke since you never did learn to be civilized and drink coffee.
~ Nora Roberts
Excuse me, but I'm very tired of being interrupted and ordered around and spoken to like a recalicitrant eight-year-old. Then don't behave like one, Brian suggested.
~ Nora Roberts
It takes about ten seconds for a puppy to get bored. Bored puppies chew. Happy puppies chew. Sad puppies chew.
~ Nora Roberts
Just because she was a woman, did she have to act coy and pretend to be flattered when a man tried to slobber all over her/
~ Nora Roberts
the dogs growled and snapped. Snarling herself
~ Nora Roberts
Drunkenness is a voluntary madness.' Can't think right off who said that, but it rings true.
~ Nora Roberts
But he wasn't one to make a habit of
~ Nora Roberts
Major, monumental crises bring out the best or the worst in us—sometimes both. And sometimes those major, monumental crises have no effect on certain types. Which means, no matter what the circumstances, assholes remain assholes." "Huh.
~ Nora Roberts
We got a clear night. You see something like that sky, no matter how long you've been the police, you just don't understand why people do what they do to people.
~ Nora Roberts