Quotes About Behavior

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.

Real change happens on the level of the gesture. It's one person doing one thing differently than he or she did before.

This is not because he doesn't love you. But love doesn't make a mean drunk not a mean drunk or a narcissist not a narcissist or a jackass not a jackass.

Kids were always writing FUCK on things. Hollis Jurkowski had always wondered whether the students, ranging in age from five to twelve, really knew what it meant or whether they just wrote it because they knew the word was particularly upsetting to grownups.

preety girls behave best when you ignore them

The missed call and call back drama between men and women deserves its own user mannual.

pretty girls behave better when you ignore them.

Everyone is a psycho, and the average of all psychos is what we call normal.

While airports are particularly good places to hunt for Indian stupidity, many other Indian processes are retarded too.

For any lasting change to happen in the country, society has to change in terms of its behaviour, attitudes and values. It is easy, even fun, to blame politicians for every wrong in the nation. However, politicians only reflect what society thinks.

Tax evasion, dubious accounting and shady friendships are almost seen as natural behaviour for an Indian businessman. We don't see them as crimes.

Agi como um esnobe, que como vocês devem saber, significa indivíduo sem nobreza.

Most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior... Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. There is no mystery about disease, nor crime, nor war, nor the thousand and one things which plague us. Live simply and wisely.

My dear boy... anybody can be good in the country.

What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

Be father to virtue, but father-in-law to vice.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Some folks wear their halos much too tight.

They are the lords and owners of their faces, Others but stewards of their excellence. The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself it only live and die, But if that flower with base infection meet, The basest weed outbraves his dignity: For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

When wine enters modesty departs.

Wine and wealth change wise men's manners.

Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogethery, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling...