Behavior Quotes
2056 quotes by 1425 authors
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Many people entertain the idea that Christianity,like almost any other religion,is basically a system of beliefs-you know, a set of doctrines or a code of…
— Josh McDowell
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No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying…
— Bertrand Russell
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If we hope to stem the mass destruction that inevitably attends our economic system (and to alter the sense of entitlement - the sense of…
— Derrick Jensen
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All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes - morals, behavior, everything. Absolute trust in…
— E. M. Forster
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The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free…
— Mary Roach
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I called. Why wasn't anyone here?"- Elena We were here." Clay said. "Around, anyway. You should have left a message." I did. Two hours ago."…
— Kelley Armstrong
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All human behavior, all human motivations, all man’s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind’s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I am now convinced that children should not be subjected to the frightfulness of the Christian religion [...]. If the concept of a father who…
— Ruth Hurmence Green
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The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.
— Sigmund Freud
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What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.
— Jodi Picoult
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I could not but wonder at the queen's unprecedented civility, until I realized with a flush of shame that it was my own improved behavior…
— Catherine Gilbert Murdock
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My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.
— Stephen Covey
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He cried when I left, which I find to be standard male behavior.
— Emilie Autumn
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But suppose we are nothing more than the sum of our first, naive, random behaviors. What then?
— Dan Ariely
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We are not philosophers, we are sovereigns. The rules that govern our behavior are not the rules for other men, and our honor, I think,…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively to themselves. All…
— Caleb Carr
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The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so…
— Jeanette Winterson
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You can have me the way i am — bad behavior included — or not at all.
— Stephenie Meyer
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There was a small wooden gazebo built out over the water; Isabelle was sitting in it, staring out across the lake. She looked like a…
— Cassandra Clare
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