Behavior Quotes

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. — Milan Kundera
Sexual behavior in our species goes through three characteristic phases: pair formation, precopulatory activity, and copulation, usually but not always in that order. The pair-formation… — Desmond Morris
I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior. — Robert Ludlum
Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make… — Frederic Raphael
Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior. — Ruth Benedict
We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted behavior,… — Ruth Benedict
What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it. — Miguel de Unamuno
It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious. — Lewis Thomas
You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct? — Margaret Culkin Banning
Even Charles Darwin, that human decoder ring of bizarre behavior, found the idea of saving a stranger's life to be a total head-scratcher. — Christopher McDougall
I used to be very self-conscious. I used to wish I was pretty. My cousin Georgia always taught me that if you smile, people will… — Ella Fitzgerald
Considering how bad men are, it is wonderful how well they behave. — Salvador de Madariaga
Good behavior is everybody's business, and good taste can be everyone's goal. — Millicent Fenwick
There are jus times when you can't let the right thing stand in yo way. — Winston Groom
Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification. — Morton Irving Seiden
Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters. — Phyllis Bottome
The way we behave toward people indicates what we really believe about God. — Warren W. Wiersbe
The energy you give off based on your beliefs... your emotions... your behavior... the vibrational frequency you give off is what determines the kind of… — Darryl Anka
Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and… — John L. Phillips

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