Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
If you're embarrassed because you have some notion about how men are supposed to behave, and it doesn't include weeping, then you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
For a long time, the for-profit world has told us in the not-for-profit sector to behave more like businesses. — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
To behave creatively in art means behavior with skill; and skill comes from discipline, not derangement. The artist who knows the rules… — Burne Hogarth Copy Share Image
If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged… — Victoria Wood Copy Share Image
I behave like you, moving, singing, laughing, journeying, but watch out for the blow I inflict all of a sudden, to chastise… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
A retaliator behaves like a hawk when he is attacked by a hawk, and like a dove when he meets a dove.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
So many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad,… — Warren Weaver Copy Share Image
In its relation to the reality of daily life, the high culture of the past was many things opposition and adornment, outcry… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
I've often said that the desire to lecture China on how it should behave in the world is wrong. China was around… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
As I spoke with scientists about the way fat behaves, I couldn't resist drawing an analogy to the realm of narcotics. If… — Michael Moss Copy Share Image
I'm interested in how identity is transient. How do we know who we really are, when different situations and environments dictate how… — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
It's impossible to consistently behave in a manner inconsistent with how we see ourselves. We can do very few things in a… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
My attitude is my way of behaving...so when you ask me to behave yourself, mind you will have to face my attitude… — Annamma Copy Share Image
I didn't want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
You do the best you can. But it's hard. When I find things egregiously misrepresentative of women, I'll make a point to… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
I couldn't be in a relationship and behave like somebody else or pretend I felt something I didn't feel. And that includes… — Kenny Loggins Copy Share Image
Now, unless someone's, like, 50 or older, they're meant to behave like girls. And it's a broad stroke: It's not just a… — Lisa Kudrow Copy Share Image
Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure… — Zosia Mamet Copy Share Image
Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
If you are not thinking correctly, you are not living correctly. What you believe will determine how you behave. — Howard G. Hendricks Copy Share Image
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
You can't do extraordinary things in the world if you're spending time criticizing others because they don't look or behave the way… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
I'm very obsessed with the energy of New York and the idea of the way people behave in the city versus the… — Marco Brambilla Copy Share Image
We cannot force others to behave differently if they disagree with us; but if we change what we are saying or doing… — Nabil N Jamal Copy Share Image
... if one does not have wild dreams of achievement, there is no spur even to get the dishes washed. One must… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When humans behave murderously, such as inflicting senseless slaughter of innocents in warfare, we like to blame it on some dark, 'animalistic'… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
... Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I do think that we are sometimes, as directors, guilty of portraying or asking our actors to behave in certain ways that… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
You never really know what's going to happen. You never know what the audience is going to be like or how they're… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
The great human problem of evil stems from the illusion of separateness. Whenever this illusion is overcome, we behave lovingly to one… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
The people have to know what my portraits are like in order to behave in such a way that the result is… — Thomas Ruff Copy Share Image
