Behave Quotes - Page 27

• It's no accident that Op. 111 attracts literary attention. Though it's music, it doesn't quite behave like it. It seems to be charged with meaning, to communicate in symbols, ciphers, clues.

  Jeremy Denk

  Attention, Ciphers, Clue

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• I support strong sanctions and other penalties against those who aid violent extremists, brutalize their own people and have time and time again rejected calls to behave as responsible nations.

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

  Strong, People, Support

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• We can't behave like crocodiles and cry over spilled milk and broken eggs.

  Giovanni Trapattoni

  Eggs, Broken, Milk

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• The ocean is the only alien and potentially hostile environment on the planet into which we tend to venture without thinking about the animals that live there, how they behave, how they support themselves, and how they perceive us. I know of no one who would set off into the jungles of Malaysia armed only with a bathing suit, a tube of suntan cream, and a book, and yet that's precisely how we approach the oceans.

  Peter Benchley

  Ocean, Book, Animal

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• The best way to insure you achieve the greatest satisfaction out of life is to behave intentionally.

  Deborah

  Way, Satisfaction, Life Is

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• Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Nice, Fairy Stories, People

  "'About the Author', The Many Worlds of Diana Wynne Jones". Published by HarperCollins, 2005.

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• People get excited around me and behave differently than they would normally. I don't feel different from anyone else, except that I drive a racing car round in circles faster than somebody else.

  Michael Schumacher

  Circles, People, Car

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• Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present
  thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Skills, Stealing, Thee

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.41, Lulu.com

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• We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave.

  Katie Holmes

  People, Four, Towns

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• When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Drawing, Pieces, Stylist

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• The girls show more skin these days, but I think, generally, they behave the same way as when I was growing up.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Girl, Growing Up, Thinking

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• Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.

  Alan Perlis

  Mean, Machines, Fit

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• Insanity is to behave like someone that you are not.

  Paulo Coelho

  Insanity, Behavior

  "Paulo Coelho speaks to THT". The Himalayan Times Interview, thehimalayantimes.com. April 26, 2009.

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• If we design the environment properly
  It will permit both child and adult to develop safely
  And to behave logically.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Men, Design

  "And It Came to Pass — Not to Stay".

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• Don't be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage

  Mike Tyson

  Boxing, Savages, Ifs

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• How I feel about and behave toward myself is the basic determinant of most of my behavior. If I improve my self-regard, I will find that dozens of behaviors change automatically. If, for example, I increase my feelings of self-competence, I will probably be less defensive, less angered by criticism, less devastated if I do not get a raise, less anxious when I come to work, better able to make decisions, and more able to appreciate and praise other people.

  William Schutz

  Behavior Change, Self, Appreciate

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• Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Father, Government

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.28, Canongate Books

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• When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.

  Peter Singer

  Pain, Animal, Behaviour

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.46, Princeton University Press

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• In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Men, Littles, Matter

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• One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Feelings, May

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2044, Delphi Classics

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• Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, Men, House

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.336, Harvard University Press

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• Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition.

  Donald Fehr

  People, Perfection, Faults

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• In short, the best thing to do is behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen or under, try not to go bald.

  Woody Allen

  Age, Trying, Sixteen

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Way, Behavior

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.76, Open Road Media

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• A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Children, Tables, Speak

  A Child's Garden of Verses "Whole Duty of Children" l. 1 (1885)

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