It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
When we have told how things behave when they are electrified, and under what circumstances they are electrified, we have told all… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century developments in science support a new animism. Developments in physics have led to a world of energetic events which seem to… — David Ray Griffin Copy Share Image
Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
I was brought up in the Boys' Brigade and grew up not swearing. It's so lovely to behave decently, civilly. — Jimmy Hill Copy Share Image
I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient -… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
OOO objects have all the abjection added back in. They don't behave like normalized patriarchal subjects at all. — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Logic doesn't stop you feeling. You can behave logically and it can hurt like hell. Or it can comfort you. Or release… — Dick Francis Copy Share Image
Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would. — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A guy's calling to say he's failing algebra II. Just as a point of practice, I say, Kill yourself. A woman calls… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The Devil doesn't make us do anything. The Devil, for example, doesn't make us mean. Rather, when we're mean, we make the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Long hair, short skirts, the girls like this image and try to make money with it. What they wear, how they behave,… — Laura Davies Copy Share Image
If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's okay, he's God.… — Dennis McKinsey Copy Share Image
Women in particular seem to say things like, "I'm sure I'd be the one screaming and not moving in an emergency." I… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. "Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The moral of the story of the Pilgrims is that if you work hard all your life and behave yourself every minute… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
