Behave Quotes - Page 33

• Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe has been unknown to us so far. We serve as well as we can to the highest abstraction of which we have some understanding, which is our community.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Punishment, Afterlife, Expectations

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• Though tax records are generally looked upon as a nuisance, the day may come when historians will realize that tax records tell the real story behind civilized life. How people were taxed, who was taxed, and what was taxed tell more about a society than anything else. Tax habits could be to civilization what sex habits are to personality. They are basic clues to the way a society behaves.

  Charles Adams

  Sex, Real, Civilization

  Charles Adams (1993). “For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization”, p.21, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I began to understand that 'America' in reality belonged to the whole world and not just to Americans. The idea of America had already been invented by the philosophers, the vagabonds, the dispersed of this earth, long before the Spanish ships got there. Those whom we call Americans have only rented it for a time. If they behave badly, we can discover another 'America'. The contract can be canceled at any time.

  Sergio Leone

  Reality, Ideas, America

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• The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

  Warren Buffett

  People, Helping, Bigs

  "7 things Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger want new graduates to know" by John Szramiak, www.businessinsider.com. June 15, 2016.

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• Remember you love writing. It wouldn't be worth it if you didn't. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back. Remember writing doesn't love you. It doesn't care. Nevertheless, it can behave with remarkable generosity. Speak well of it, encourage others, pass it on.

  A.L. Kennedy

  Love You, Writing, Remember You

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• The only thing truly within our power, may be whether or not we will behave in each moment with arrogance or reverence.

  Lawrence Kushner

  Arrogance, May, Moments

  Lawrence Kushner (1998). “Invisible Lines of Connection: Sacred Stories of the Ordinary”, Jewish Lights Pub

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• The founders of the United Nations expected that member nations would behave and vote as individuals after they had weighed the merits of an issue - rather like a great, global town meeting. The emergence of blocks and the polarization of the United Nations undermine all that this organization initially valued.

  Ronald Reagan

  Block, Organization, Issues

  Ronald Reagan (1983). “Renewing the U.S. commitment to peace: September 26, 1983”

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• We have a tendency to always test people's love. 'I want to see how badly I have to behave before you'll leave me. Because I don't really think you want me anyhow.'

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Thinking, People, Want

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• There are three pillars, regardless of your work culture, whether you're in Silicon Valley or on Wall Street: how you look, how you speak, and how you behave. It's all three things, and nailing them makes you a contender.

  Sylvia Ann Hewlett

  Wall, Three Things, Pillars

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• It is impossible to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and be a Republican. It's philosophically absolutely opposed - if they could only think about what they were saying for a minute. That's when you get caught up in the webs of what people call themselves and how they behave.

  Neil Peart

  Jesus, Teaching, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Each of these failures for me is a failure of communication, via a mode of communication that can be violent or meant to behave violently. Butler provides a way of thinking about how language becomes an instrument of violence. And why we feel it as such.

  Claudia Rankine

  Communication, Thinking, Violence

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.

  Rachel Holmes

  Nice, Pleasing Others, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was interested in writing about gender in this future world where progress has not only halted but turned backward. On another note, sometimes the personal is not so politically correct, and what we are turned on by can't be made to behave.

  Edan Lepucki

  Writing, Progress, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've heard a lot of nasty rhetoric about the president. We're going to kick your rear end out of the White House and stuff. That's just not the way I behave.

  John Kasich

  White, House, President

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• Now, unless someone's, like, 50 or older, they're meant to behave like girls. And it's a broad stroke: It's not just a moment of being vulnerable and girlish.

  Lisa Kudrow

  Girl, Moments, Vulnerable

  "New Again: Lisa Kudrow". Interview with Sara Switzer, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2016.

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• All I'd ever heard my entire life in my family was, "Nobody wanted you, and we took you in." When you get that into your head at a tender age, you really feel like you are an unlovable human being, and then you behave like one. That's exactly what I had done. It took me many years to deal with my own violence and find my own niche.

  Sam Hamill

  Years, Age, Done

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• I haven't seen any poet in this country behave nearly as rudely as Newt Gingrich or Bill O'Reilly. I'm not asking these people to approve of everyone's manners. I don't feel obliged to defend the manners of every poet who submits a poem to my web site. That's not my job. My job is to provide them with an opportunity to speak from the heart. If there's not much in the heart and if the mouth is running wild, that's not my problem.

  Sam Hamill

  Running, Country, Jobs

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• Of course, there are some people who behave rudely. Allen Ginsberg used to like to get up in public and take his clothes off. I don't do that, but I liked Allen Ginsberg. He was a nice guy.

  Sam Hamill

  Nice, Clothes, People

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• Seems like people could behave themselves without making a calculation regarding how likely or unlikely they are to kill other people.

  Robert James Thomson

  People, Unlikely, Calculations

  "Dr. Gridlock". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 8, 2016.

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• On a deeper level, I just feel like women have so many expectations they need to carry, so many different laws these days, and one hand they need to be sexy, and on the other hand they need to behave properly, and on the other hand they need to get what they want and take care of themselves.

  Meital Dohan

  Sexy, Hands, Law

  "Exclusive Song Premiere and Interview: ‘on Ya,’ Meital Feat. Sean Kingston". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Rather, although belief may be adequate for explaining the behavior of individual animals - an animal which believes that p will behave no differently from an animal which knows that p - talk of knowledge is necessary once one begins to look at explaining the cognitive capacities of a species.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Believe, Animal, Looks

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I'm just remembering myself at 22 or 23. I was all engine and no steering. (Laughter) I had the wheels but I had no steering. I do think it's true that when you're younger, you're more likely to listen to all the naysayers, and people are always telling you how you ought to behave and what kind of job you should get and how you should look.

  Anna Quindlen

  Jobs, Laughter, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I often get, 'Oh, you always play the asshole.' An asshole is somebody who knows that they're doing it, but continues to behave a certain way. The one sort of common thread to me has always been that these are imperfect people.

  Will Arnett

  Play, Common Threads, People

  "Will Arnett Is Ready To Confront His Own Demons". Interview with Andi Teran, www.elle.com. March 10, 2016.

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• I don't behave the way people necessarily want me to, but I tried behaving that other way for a short period of time and it didn't take.

  Jessa Crispin

  People, Want, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There is a certain expectation of girls to eventually grow up and behave and fall in line. I've always bucked against that.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Girl, Growing Up, Fall

  "How Lizzy Caplan 'Master'ed Her Career". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. September 27, 2013.

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