Behaviour Quotes - Page 3

• What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.

  Bill Vaughan

  Dog, Kings, Shoes

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• A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.

  Barry Levinson

  Mistake, Interesting, Looks

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.

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• Take account of your deeds before they are taken account of.

  Umar

  Taken, Deeds, Accounts

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• I think it's a very central tenet to it yes, it is. I can't bear it, I can't bear inequality, I can't bear bad behaviour to other people. I cannot bear it that people are mean to people who can't help what they are.

  Janet Suzman

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.

  Keith Henson

  Children, People, Drug

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• If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Past, Perspective, Evil

  "The Crucible of Creation". Book by Simon Conway Morris, 1998.

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• Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar.

  James Payn

  Humble, Opportunity, Oatmeal

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.

  Marvin Harris

  Sex, People, Different

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• Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

  Wendy O. Williams

  Hate, People, Bored

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I hope you don't get known for nothing crazy, cause no man ever wants to hear those stories bout his lady.

  Drake

  Relationship, Crazy, Humble

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• Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Educational, Media, Osteoporosis

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• Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Children, People, Adults

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• Seek perfection of character. Be faithful. Endeavor. Respect others. Refrain from violent behaviour.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Character, Perfection, Faithful

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• Sometimes it would be nice to just have some red wine with dinner, but it's not worth the risk. I have a great life, a great situation. Why would I want to risk self-destructive behaviour?

  Kristin Davis

  Nice, Wine, Self

  "Charlotte's web" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2002.

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• Contraries are cured by contraries.

  Bill Vaughan

  Behavior, Manners, Contrary

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• Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

  Keith Henson

  Successful, Attention, Intense

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• Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Habit, Cigarette, Humans

  "'I felt I had befouled myself'". Interview with Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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• Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Abnormal, Novelists

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• A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.

  Bill Vaughan

  Imagination, Inspire, Fuel

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• I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling

  Fanny Burney

  Character, Wish, Appearance

  "The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney", vol. 1, p. 8, 1768.

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• All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.

  Barry Levinson

  Atmosphere, Trying, Small Moments

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.

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• It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, People, Unseen

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• The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it's so crowded.

  Kin Hubbard

  Way, Reason, Behavior

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• Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

  Jane Austen

  Beautiful, Sex, Loss

  Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.100

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• I think maybe when you live with someone who is really very ill for a long time, it somehow gives you more of a greedy appetite for life and maybe, yes, you are less measured in your behaviour than you would otherwise be.

  Nigella Lawson

  Thinking, Appetite For Life, Long

  "Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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