Behave Quotes - Page 40

• While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Cheerful, Literature

  H. G. Wells (2017). “Apropos of Dolores by H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.36, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) (PublishDrive)

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• Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.

  Arsene Wenger

  Life Is, Social, Private Life

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• Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

  George Will

  Mean

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• Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government.

  George Will

  Government, Choices, Groups

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• We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.

  Greg Graffin

  Believe, Reality, Somewhere Else

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• By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo.

  Howard Rheingold

  Jobs, Writing, Simple

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• As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

  Hanna Rosin

  Powerful, Men, Vain

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• I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Fighting, Thinking, Care

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• Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.

  Aldous Huxley

  Intelligent, Men, World

  Aldous Huxley (1933). “Texts & pretexts: an anthology with commentaries”

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• A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Saint, Persons

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• The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dirty, Reading, Troops

  "Human, All Too Human". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, II.137, 1878.

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• Time -- when pursued like a bandit -- will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping ou the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Country, Hair, Doors

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• My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

  Oscar Wilde

  Girl, Sweet, Nice

  Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.21, Heinemann

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• It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

  Bertrand Russell

  Anger, Men, Justice

  Bertrand Russell (1990). “The Art of Philosophizing: and Other Essays”, p.25, Rowman & Littlefield

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• She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, America, Secret

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.27, Wordsworth Editions

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• He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Giving Up, Years, Games

  "The Age of Reason". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1945.

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• And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love, you deceived your legal wife, and all in the name of honour. That was the damned paradox of it - in order to behave well, you have to behave badly.

  Julian Barnes

  Love You, Order, Names

  Julian Barnes (2010). “Arthur & George”, p.308, Random House

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• A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Spiritual, Hurt

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We wear on our faces the results of what we believe and how we behave, and such behavior is most evident in the eyes and on the faces of those who have lived many years.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Believe, Eye, Years

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• Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough.

  John Irving

  Crazy, People, Giving

  John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

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• For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

  Anne Lamott

  Motivational, Book, Reading

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.15, Anchor

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• We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?

  Edith Wharton

  Life, People, Novel

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.67, Xist Publishing

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• Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Running, Being Yourself

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 29, 2014

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• Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare in awe at her, the goddess. I don't know yet what power feels like. But this is surely what it looks like, and I think I'm beginning to understand why those ancient women had to hide in caves. Why our parents and suitors want us to behave properly and predictably. It's not that they want to protect us; it's that they fear us.

  Libba Bray

  Thinking, White, Blue

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Men, Gentleman, Expecting

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.120, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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