Behavior Quote by Joyce Carol Oates Download Open image “Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.” — Joyce Carol Oates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Behavior Evil Human behavior Humans Riddle Selfish
Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Evil then consists not in being created but in the rebellious idolatry by which humans worship and honour elements of the natural world rather… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut). — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“A woman who has lost her husband is invalid, thus an invalid. In” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Did you know, Marianne: how by breaking the code that day, you broke it forever? For us all?” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behaviour. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I now know that deep within the human concept is something dark, selfish, and completely willing to do whatever is necessary to support the… — Melissa West Copy Share Image
The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
To behave creatively in art means behavior with skill; and skill comes from discipline, not derangement. The artist who knows the rules -and proportion… — Burne Hogarth Copy Share Image
You don't put milk in chamomile tea - that's disgusting behavior! That's not right. — Laura Fraser Copy Share Image
The laws of thermodynamics, as empirically determined, express the approximate and probable behavior of systems of a great number of particles, or, more precisely,… — J. Willard Gibbs Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I think we've told a lot of lies about human behavior through film. — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior. — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
