Quotes About Behavior

He started a sarcastic smile, but quenched it, according to the etiquette of his profession.

When most people see an adult skipping they assume it must be on the way either to or from the asylum.

Cover your mouth when you cough. Never cover it when you smile.

In a gathering of two or more people, when a lighted cigarette is placed in an ashtray, the smoke will waft into the face of the non-smoker.

You know it really doesn't matter about clothes if we look clean and neat and behave well. I think we've been placing too high a value on looks anyway. Of course looks do count a little, but they are, after all, only a trifle beside real worth. And, if we can't impress that girl with our refinement by our actions, why, we can put on all the clothes in the universe, and we won't be able to do it any better.

Common decency and civil behaviour are just a thin veneer over the animal at the core of mankind that gets out whenever it has the chance.

if people begin by thinking rationally, the danger is that they may end by acting rationally also.

Although our inattention can contribute to our lack of total well-being, we also have the power to choose positive behaviors and responses. In that choice we change our every experience of life!

When revealed theology is reduced to an autonomous study of man, when biblical authority is replaced by an unstable human wisdom, when behavior is directed by the descriptions of social science instead of the prescriptions of God's Word, then we have returned to the situation prevailing at the time of the Book of Judges: every man will do what is right in his own eyes.

In the society of would-be-gods, a humble man is always polite.

I believe in love the verb, not the noun.

It was the kind of behavior that could only occur when people had been trapped for thousands of years, staring at the same sights, fetishizing everything around them, spiraling down toward the full-blown insanity of religion. You didn't need gates and barbed wire to make a prison. Familiarity could pin you to the ground, far more efficiently.

It was Augustine who famously said, "Love God, and do what you will," and coming from a former hedonist like Augustine, you might expect that to be a license for bad behavior. But what he meant, very simply, was this: If you love God completely and totally, if your values are God-values, then the choices you make will tend to be in tune with His will for your life.

He couldn't control what he felt, but he could certainly control what he DID.

I understand that smoking is vaguely inappropriate in certain situations. You know, like an orphanage, cancer ward, whatever.

Then he was silent. Just like last time—one outburst and back to silence or dispassionate interaction.

Laws, enforced by the sword, control behavior but cannot change hearts.

No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels.

There was something about such reflex stupidity that never failed to irritate him.

Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.

The condition of your soul will determine the condition of your life. Because it determines how you think, what you feel, and what you choose to do.

I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.

Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand, not expressing anger often allows it to disappear without leaving ugly traces.

Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.