Behaviour Quotes

399 quotes by 342 authors

All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and… — Iain Duncan Smith
And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels… — Emma Thompson
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads,… — Lewis Thomas
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions. — Gore Vidal
I think dysfunctional people are being funneled into very corporate behaviour. Look at the Brits... no one's fighting, and it's boring. — Robbie Williams
I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour. — Mary Wollstonecraft
We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour. — Tennessee Williams
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour towards creatures, all men… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of… — Anthony Storr
That the boat did not upset I simply state as a fact. Why it did not upset I am unable to offer any reason. I… — Jerome K. Jerome
It's only now that I realize that behaviour always has a context and precedents, it's what you do rather than what you are, although we… — Irvine Welsh
I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we… — C.S. Lewis
Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and… — E. M. Forster
Most gay men are as sexist in their thinking as are heterosexuals. Their patriarchal thinking leads them to construct paradigms of desirable sexual behaviour that… — Bell Hooks
I would like you to teach [the orcs] civilised behaviour," said Ladyship coldly. He appeared to consider this. "Yes of course, I think that would… — Terry Pratchett
There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim… — Katherine Dunn
Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is the primary, the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing… — Lynne Truss
...when a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows the distinctive high-and-dry feeling of being abandoned for a phone… — Lynne Truss
A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be… — Albert Einstein

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