Behaviour Quotes
399 quotes by 342 authors
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Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.
— Seamus Heaney
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Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love - from my…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities…
— Adolf Hitler
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In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too dynamic, complex, and…
— Timothy Leary
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Small Man can be a very funny or a very tiresome Tour Companion, depending on how this kind of thing grabs you. He gambles, he…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing across premieval swamps…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.
— George Orwell
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A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are humble desires. Their…
— Jonathan Edwards
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She had never been a proficient flirt. Her spasms of kittenish behaviour were graceless and inept, like normal conversation on roller skates. but the combination…
— David Nicholls
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The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.
— Naomi Wolf
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It was behaviour that I thought not far from racism, sexism or any other kind of prejudice or snobbery. 'Because you are not cute, I…
— Stephen Fry
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Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy.
— Charlie Huston
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The most unbelievable thing about my behaviour is that I was convinced it was entirely f**king normal.
— Ozzy Osbourne
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they…
— Terence McKenna
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A retaliator behaves like a hawk when he is attacked by a hawk, and like a dove when he meets a dove. When he meets…
— Richard Dawkins
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Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
— Alain de Botton
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Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
— Yann Martel
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If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviours and attitudes or a…
— Tony Robbins
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Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.
— Cecelia Ahern
Who Wrote These Behaviour Quotes
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