I've never tried to measure myself on any scale. A person is more multifaceted than the label they often get stuck with.… — Dmitry Medvedev Copy Share Image
She had never been a proficient flirt. Her spasms of kittenish behaviour were graceless and inept, like normal conversation on roller skates.… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Most of the world’s problems are caused by people who made education compulsory, but personal development optional. Because of them, we have… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behaviour and the spere in which… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
“We are never responsible for another person’s abusive or toxic behaviour. We don’t “choose it” or “create it” … we didn’t “sign… — Fiona McColl Copy Share Image
I think they (Thatcher protesters) ought to be grateful for the fact that the people who hold our (pro-Thatcher) views, and who… — Norman Tebbit Copy Share Image
Faces in the everyday impress us as hives of subtlety. That impression must be sharpened in photography, which discloses only a microsecond… — Max Kozloff Copy Share Image
“Self-leaders are still true leaders even if they have no known followers. True leaders inspire by the influence of their characters and… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Who are the governing bodies to say what is a good and a bad behaviour? I think that's unacceptable, even from an… — Patrick Mouratoglou Copy Share Image
Living becomes a glorious experience only when it is sweetened by tolerance and love. Willingness to compromise with others ways of living… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Two people may be at the same spot in manners and behaviour, and yet one may be getting better, and the other… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high… — Safak Pavey Copy Share Image
If you are an approval addict, your behaviour is as easy to control as that of any other junkie. All a manipulator… — Harriet B. Braiker Copy Share Image
Even professional, paid carers aren't always models of saintly behaviour - and they know they can knock off at the end of… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
We have our values from the church, the temple, the mosque. Do not rob, do not murder. But our behaviour changes the… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or… — Oliver E. Williamson Copy Share Image
Men love women because they are the loveliest things on God's earth. Women love men because chocolate can't mow the lawn. Some… — Guy Browning Copy Share Image
The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
While there are many who would say that the race to the moon was hardly green, many others have noted that the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Peter denied Jesus; Judas betrayed Jesus. The bad news was that both of them fell off the track and were both filled… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the… — Jonathan King Copy Share Image
People are disappearing from movies, and normal human behaviour is disappearing from movies... You are not always fighting a creature in life.… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
“Xingu!" she scoffed. "Why, it was the fact of our knowing so much more about it than she did—unprepared though we were—that… — Edith Wharton 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
'In empathic listening you listen with your ears, but you also, and more importantly, listen with you eyes and with your heart.… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that… — James Payn Copy Share Image
It is essential... that discipline should not be practised like a rule imposed on oneself from the outside, but that it becomes… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is… — Kamal Ahmed Copy Share Image
When I asked Robert Spitzer about the possibility that he'd inadvertently created a world in which ordinary behaviours were being labelled mental… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
We are all socialists now, it seems. John McCain, David Cameron and Gordon Brown attack bankers' irresponsible behaviour and salaries, and call… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
When things could've gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The sport brought me, maybe off… — Daniel Cudmore Copy Share Image
Weddings and funerals have so much in common (except that in Ireland funerals are more fun - better food, better drink): at… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching… — Edward Mayhew Copy Share Image
