Quotes About Behavior

Virtue, after all, isn't just about morals in the sense of "knowing the standards to live up to" or "knowing which rules you're supposed to keep." Virtue, as we have already seen, is about the whole of life, not just the specifically "moral" choices.

There is a danger in Christians supposing that they simply have to be flaky, awkward, against the government all the time, continually doing things upside down and inside out. Some people of course seem to be born that way, and use the gospel imperative as an excuse for foisting their own cussedness or arrogance on everyone else.

those who worship that which is not God will inevitably produce distortions in the world. The point of "injustice" is not just that it means "wrong behavior" (for which the perpetrator would be culpable), but that it means introducing powerful rogue elements into God's world.

But what we notice in Mark 10 is something which seems to operate in a different dimension. For a start, it is a call, not to specific acts of behavior, but to a type of character. For

We too have swapped the ancient Israelite vision of God and the world (focused on the Temple and thence the new creation and brought into expression in Passover and the other great gatherings, such as the Day of Atonement) for the assumed "goal" of a Platonized "heaven," the assumed human vocation of virtue or good behavior, and the dangerously paganized vision of how humans who have failed to attain that vocation might nevertheless gain that goal.

what we notice in Mark 10 is something which seems to operate in a different dimension. For a start, it is a call, not to specific acts of behavior, but to a type of character. For another thing, it is a call to see oneself as having a role to play within a story—and a story where, to join up with the

Human women have been slapping men for being bastards for centuries. You were doing what comes naturally.

Just because you're bigger doesn't mean you have to be a bully." "Just because you're a woman doesn't mean I'm going to let you get away with bullshit.

You're prone to mood swings." Mood swings? he stopped halfway down the steps. "Women have mood swings. Not men.

I am only a man." It was a rumbling murmur, his eyes on her mouth. "If you continue to play with me thus, I'll forget I came to apologize for my behavior, and act in a fashion that'll have you angry with me all over again.

Your behavior isn't conforming to your known psychological profile.

You must fight, my female friends, and never stop. If under attack, you must endeavor to forget all you have learned about proper behavior and claw your way to freedom. Others in your life may have alternate suggestions, but if they do not involve kicking and biting, clawing and hitting, you may safely disregard them.

I said, Well, looks like he's pretty ornery. I wonder where he gets it? "Jack just shrugged and kissed my cheek, and then whispered in my ear, He gets it from his mother.

I have a deep-down belief that there are folks in the world who are good through and through, and others who came in mean and will go out mean. It's like coffee. Once it's roasted, it all looks brown. Until you pour hot water on it and see what comes out. Folks get into hot water, you see what comes out.

Men are linear creatures, led by their lusts. You only have to give them an excuse to act on what they already want to do.

All sorts of behaviour can be inspired by self-hatred. You can become an artist. Commit suicide. Adopt a new name, a new country, a new language. All of the above.

All sorts of behaviour can be inspired by self-hatred. You can become an artist. Commit suicide. Adopt a new name, a new country, a new language. All of the above (Romain Gary).

De repente, los machos más moderados tuvieron acceso a las hembras e, increíble pero cierto, los machos jóvenes adoptaron unos modales más pacíficos a partir de la siguiente generación. Lo que había cambiado en el espacio de una generación evidentemente no eran los genes sino la educación: los recién nacidos machos no tenían un modelo de agresividad que imitar

This was how he came to trust in the power of emulation; he believed that people could be conditioned to do the right thing by observing good leaders.

the person's memory is or how strange his behavior, he is still a unique and special human being. We can continue to love a person even after he has changed drastically and even when we are deeply troubled

Freudian notion that people act out what they cannot remember or what they cannot allow themselves to feel. It follows that as long as people are able to enact a dynamic (in this case, most frequently a disavowed dependency or a compulsion to be in control), they do not have to think about why they persistently behave in a particular way. When there are no negative consequences for their behavior, interpretations just roll off them.

In short, their practice contradicts what they profess. They are trapped in cognitive dissonance.

The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.

The truth is, it's impossible for any parent to know what his or her child will be like as an adult. But we can tell you that the sensory smart child of sensory smart parents is a person who is empowered to take responsibility for himself, for his body, and for his behavior. That's an outstanding quality any parent would be proud to see in a child.