Behaving Quotes

176 quotes by 152 authors

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for… — George Bernard Shaw
When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there was an inquiry… — C.S. Lewis
I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened. — Katherine Paterson
Do not waste time bothering whether you â€˜loveâ€™ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of… — C.S. Lewis
To demand that a person pee in a cup whenever you wish him to, without a documented reason to suspect that he has been using… — Alexander Shulgin
Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did. — Paulo Coelho
You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society. — Kurt Vonnegut
She knows the rituals, she knows how we're supposed to be behaving...But I think these things are impenetrable and fraudulent, and I can't do them… — Margaret Atwood
The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously. — Julian Barnes
When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else? — Kristin Cashore
I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, thatâ€™s why other people hated them… — Harper Lee
Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his… — George Eliot
It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would… — Bernhard Schlink
Nobody ever gets enough appreciation when they're behaving themselves, but there's no end to hearing about it when they're not. — Jean Ferris
Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses. She could almost touch the destructive energy leaking out of her body. She allowed the… — Paulo Coelho
Something caught in her throat at this second thanks, when she'd threatened him so brutally. When you're a monster, she thought, you are thanked and… — Kristin Cashore
We considered behaving, but it's against our nature. — O.R. Melling
It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want… — Christopher Paolini
Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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