Behave Quotes - Page 39

• If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

  Salman Rushdie

  Surprise, Bigots, Huge

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• I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.

  Richard Russo

  Thinking, People, Cost

  "Richard Russo on Painting a Canvas With His Novels". HBO Interview, www.hbo.com.

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• To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

  Bayard Rustin

  Ifs

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• The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave.

  Rick Santorum

  Girl, People, Choices

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• One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

  May Sarton

  Courage, Hero, Thinking

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.72, Open Road Media

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• Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Buffets, Helping, Clean

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• Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Maturity, Literature, Social

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• My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Power, People, Watches

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Clever, Fun, Animal

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• It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life.

  Will Self

  Sports, Taken, Loss

  "'You may now turn over your papers'". www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2010.

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• I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.

  Vikram Seth

  Thinking, World, Goodness

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• You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.

  Tom Shadyac

  Apples, Tree, Sowing

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• I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

  Charlie Sheen

  Birthday, Should Have, Guy

  Interview with David Rensin, www.playboy.com. April 15, 2011.

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• We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.

  Michael Shermer

  Community, Moral, Authority

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• The only jobs kids have are to do well in school, to be charming and polite, and be thankful. That's it. I'll house you, protect you, I'll even give my life for you, and in return, you will behave.

  Gene Simmons

  Jobs, School, Kids

  Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. October 14, 2009.

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• Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.

  Herbert Simon

  Rain, Clouds, People

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• If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if leaders knew they could not rely on keeping the public in the dark about what they are doing, they would have a powerful incentive to behave better.

  Peter Singer

  Powerful, Dark, Government

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.256, Princeton University Press

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• If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Emotional, Long

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.555, Open Road Media

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• In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.

  Tom Stoppard

  Real, Thinking, People

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.178, University of Michigan Press

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• Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job.

  John Sununu

  Senior, Jobs, Motivation

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• I grew up looking at my father as to how to behave. In watching him I grasped so many things. His own temperament was of a calm person. He was very composed and I never saw anger in him. To me, that was fascinating.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Father, Anger, Saws

  "Sachin Tendulkar interview: 'I favour England to win the Ashes" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.

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• You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

  Tertullian

  Discipline, Judging, Quality

  "The Prescriptions Against the Heretics" by Tertullian, as translated by Stanley Lawrence Greenslade in "Early Latin Theology: Selections from Tertullian, Cyprian, Ambrose, and Jerome" (p. 63), 1956.

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• We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way.

  Lewis Thomas

  Thinking, Water, Privilege

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• My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.

  Julie Walters

  Children, Grandmother, People

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• Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.

  Rachel Weisz

  Country, Believe, Hollywood

  'I'm a storyteller. I don't save lives', www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2005.

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