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Quotes About Misbehavior

His eyes were sharp but kind, and it seemed to amuse him to see children misbehave when he knew that deep down they didn't really want to misbehave, but were just feeling lonely or misunderstood or wanted to go outside and play instead of sitting in a hot classroom. (26)
~ Phyllis Theroux
You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.
~ Keegan-Michael Key
delinquents.
~ Ray Bradbury
The truth is always revealed through the Word; but sadly, people don't always accept it. It is a painful process to face our faults and deal with them. Generally speaking, people justify misbehavior. They allow their past and how they were raised to negatively affect the rest of their lives. Our past may explain why we're suffering, but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.
~ Joyce Meyer
Sooner or later everyone behaves badly. Some of us are just better at it than others.
~ Kim Foster, A Beautiful Heist
In my view, there are two fundamentally different ways one can respond to a child who does something wrong. One is to impose a punitive consequence. Another is to see the situation as a "teachable moment," an opportunity to educate or to solve a problem together. The response here is not "You've misbehaved; now here's what I'm going to do to you" but "Something has gone wrong; what can we do about it?
~ Alfie Kohn
Misbehavior is the symptom. Discouragement is the disease. Encouragement is the cure. —Betty Lou Bettner
~ Alyson Schafer
the Spaniard was looking at her bare legs, he was going to accidently-on-purpose hit him when Snow started misbehaving.
~ Jennifer Ashley
egregious Iraqi misbehavior
~ Andrew J. Bacevich
Maybe at some point, I will come out with my #MeToo story. Very well known and important people have tried to take advantage of me or have misbehaved. They are still around. When I want to name them, I will name them. It will not be one name, there will be quite a few names.
~ Himani Shivpuri
put the "freak" in "frequently drunk and belligerent.
~ Rob Sheffield
Guilty like a chastised dog sitting in the corner, not because he knows taking food from the table is bad, but because he's done something inappropriate he doesn't understand.
~ Andrew Mayne
I was a problematic kid, to be sure.
~ Jamie Hyneman
Responsibility for the proper conduct of children was not confined to their parents only. When they misbehaved, they misbehaved against the community. And a senior member of the community was expected to do something about it.
~ Oliver Tambo
The wide and unregulated power of contempt given to the courts has been deliberately interpreted by the courts in a manner which has served to intimidate the media from exposing corruption and misbehaviour by the courts and judges.
~ Prashant Bhushan
By the time I was a teenager, my desire to be daring and taste everything got me in trouble. Too often, I was in the company of kids my parents would call 'wild.'
~ Marlee Matlin
Rockefeller asserted that he was less afraid of exposing misbehavior by talking to the press than of inadvertently spilling trade secrets.
~ Ron Chernow
To make sure that the Pennsylvania Railroad didn't double-cross him, Rockefeller boosted production at his Philadelphia refineries serviced by the railroad—a generous bonus that could be canceled at any moment for misbehavior.
~ Ron Chernow
I suppose if you were inclined to misbehave, you wouldn't exactly tell me the truth anyway. Darling, you have a brother fond of holding a gun on me, a sister who can shoot anything that moves, two other brothers who've repeatedly threatened to thrash me, and a grandmother who buys off constables. Do you really think I'm fool enough to antagonize them by committing adultery? It was hard not to smile at that. An excellent point. I think so.
~ Sabrina Jeffries
Swearing, drunkenness, "haunting bad houses," fighting, and drawing graffiti—hugh penises were a favourite—on the palace walls were all punishable by warnings
~ Alison Weir
I saw them too," said Low. "She had her hand right on his pants. The package. Right on there. Guy had a raging boner." "Gross," said Juicy. He spat. "Goddammit, Juice. You almost hit my toe," said Low. "Demerit." "Your fault for wearing sandals," said Juicy. "Mega lame. A demerit to you.
~ Lydia Millet
Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.
~ Stevie Wonder
Again, behavior is the criterion, and since the devotee is the standard for the most important part of life – spiritual advancement – his misbehavior is the greatest disservice to society.
~ Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami
Whenever you have a lot of money in play, combined with the ability to hide misbehavior behind complexity, you should expect widespread fraud to happen.
~ Scott Adams