Quotes About Behavior

From a legal perspective, illegal communication behavior also is unethical, but that which is not specifically illegal is ethical. In

Our character is determined not by our circumstances but by our reaction to those circumstances.

Parties somehow represent the rationing of fun, and that very concept depresses me. You're allowed to act like a tit at parties; therefore by implication, you're not allowed to act like a tit the rest of the time

Who do hats think they are? They contribute nothing to society, and don't even display basic manners. Has a hat ever held a door open for you? No. It hasn't.

Technical in the social situation, sociable in the technical situation? That's the hallmark of a nerd.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy.

The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.

I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

The Episcopalian ideal of a gentleman is a man who, if a lady falls down drunk, will pick her up off the floor and freshen up her drink. You practically have to be on the list for your second liver transplant before a Southern Episcopalian notices that you drink too much.

Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior.

The formation of habits is education, and education is the formation of habits.

with a child on his first offence, and a grieved look is enough to convict the little transgressor; but let him go on until a habit of wrong-doing is formed, and the cure is a slow one; then the mother has no chance until she has formed in him a contrary habit of well-doing.

Crime does not decrease in proportion to the severest punishment.

It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.

But people in masks were always assholes. It was a scientific law. Give someone anonymity and all social niceties break down. The Internet had proven that.

Ivory's the kind of girl who gets drunk and immediately starts slurring. I have a lot of friends like that, and I think it's because it makes me look 'more together.

It's not what you do, it's how you do it.

I assume they're still there, ostriching themselves and eating paint chips, or whatever it is they do in their spare time. I

The blind spot under his muzzle explains why a horse might accidentally eat your fingers instead of the treat that you are offering.

Adam Birmingham, whose family is the richest in Britain, decides to get very drunk.

He was a man whose calmness reflected his confidence that he meant whatever he did-- which is different... from confidence that whatever he did was right.

Fucked-up people will try to tell you otherwise, but boundaries have nothing to do with whether you love someone or not. They are not judgments, punishments, or betrayals. They are a purely peaceable thing: the basic principles you identify for yourself that define the behaviors that you will tolerate from others, as well as the responses you will have to those behaviors. Boundaries teach people how to treat you, and they teach you how to respect yourself.

But love doesn't make a mean drunk not a mean drunk or a narcissist not a narcissist or a jackass not a jackass.