Behaved Quotes
172 quotes by 159 authors
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A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes - within the limits…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
— Stephen Covey
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The show's writers had peppered the piece with words like "savage," "wild," and "animalistic." What bullshit. Show me the animal that kills for the thrill…
— Kelley Armstrong
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I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they…
— Robin Wasserman
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The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky—as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured. He unhesitatingly…
— C.S. Lewis
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The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt…
— Aldous Huxley
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Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger, And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved.
— Peter S. Beagle
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I shouldn't have said it, but the word slipped out of my mouth as easy as air. it wasn't exactly the kind of work any…
— Obert Skye
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I cry because the future has once again found its sparkle and has grown a million times larger. And I cry because I am ashamed…
— Douglas Coupland
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It's never been about trying to look well-behaved. It's just how I am. I guess it's a weird thing to be 19 and not ever…
— Taylor Swift
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He was so very large and so very gruff that he rather terrified her, but he always behaved correctly in public, and there was a…
— Gail Carriger
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You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the…
— Jane Austen
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And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not…
— Toni Morrison
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One glance and I knew exactly who and what he was. The classic alpha male, the kind who had spurred evolution forward about five million…
— Lisa Kleypas
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It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone…
— Gregory Maguire
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As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and invisible to the…
— Yann Martel
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I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.
— Deb Caletti
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Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your…
— Eve Ensler
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English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.
— Deborah Harkness
Who Wrote These Behaved Quotes
159 authors contributed a total of 172 Behaved Quotes, led by these top contributors: