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“At PETA, we often say that the issue of how animals are treated isn't just about them; it's about us, how we behave.”

Animal Issues Treated Behave Peta

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.”

Kids Courses Grows Teach Growing Up Golf Faster Behave Golf Course Golfing Golf Life Great Golf Funny Golf Great Golfing Funny Golfing Golf Clubs Inspirational Golf

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it's very simple and honest and contained. You don't need to use as much expression, as much feeling. Some characters will boil over, and that's another thing, but a lot of times I think you can just do very, very little.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Littles Character Use Feelings Simple Situation Watches Honest Expression Behave

Author:Robert De Niro

“Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.”

Men Humans Said Human Beings Inspiring Female Males Defined Behave

Book:Nature of the second sex

Source: Nature of the second sex

“The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person.”

Knows Should Looks Persons Kids Three Comedy Four Normal Extraordinary Appearance Rings Noses Behave Reverse Absolutely Nothing

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.”

Men World Way Kind Young Certain Influence Behavior Significant Behave Young Man Arab World

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.”

Knows Life Two Body Faces Law Individual Conditions Health Disease Medicine Behave Abnormal Diseased Laws Of Life Normal And Abnormal Variability

Book:Aequanimitas

Source: Aequanimitas

“Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances.”

Humans Mean War Born Democracy Rights Danger Circumstances Normal Human Rights Terror Israel British Behave Britain Introducing Mandates

Author:Shimon Peres

“All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.”

Believe Reason Results Brain Psychology Magic Activity Behave No Reason Behaviour Cognitive Science

Author:Steven Pinker

“So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.”

Ifs Way Responsibility Accepting Positive Reflection Careful Obligation Behave Be Careful

Author:Sidney Poitier

“All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.”

Life Inspirational Mind Believe Form Religion Causes Quiet All Things Endless Useless Behave Strife Great Power

Book:Delphi Complete Peter Rabbit Tales (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Peter Rabbit Tales (Illustrated)

“One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.”

Different Reading Literature Attention Novel Behave

Author:Manuel Puig

“I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others.”

People Thinking Way Inspirational Trying Funny Failing Trouble Behave Copies Volleyball

Author:Gabrielle Reece

“Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.”

Life Trying Believe Lord Atheism Atheist Behave

Author:Christopher Reeve

“The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in.”

Ifs Memories Doors Promise Behave Thrown Halls Concerts Bangs Noisy Analysts Repressed Intruders Live Concerts

Author:Theodor Reik

“It's funny, because there are so many stereotypes out there about actors and movie stars in general, but I've had a great opportunity to meet a lot of them, and maybe it's just because they don't behave that way around me, but I rarely see that kind of abuse of power.”

Way Kind Actors Opportunity Stars Abuse Behave Stereotype Movie Star Great Opportunity Abuse Of Power

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.”

People Humans Ends Reason Feelings Natural Loss Disaster Reactions Behave No Reason Scare Civility Natural Disaster

Author:Eli Roth

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

Ifs Huge Surprise Behave Bigots

Author:Salman Rushdie

“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Should Kind Cost Paid Satisfaction Cruelty Behave

Author:Richard Russo

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

Author:Bayard Rustin

“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.”

People Way Young Choices Girl Poverty Teach Administration Behave Regulation Avoiding Abstinence Bad Choices

Author:Rick Santorum

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

Thinking Humans Human Beings Courage Hero Behave Decent Heroic Heroism Being A Hero

Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

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

Knows Helping Know How Clean Behave Plates Buffets

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

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

Knows Literature Social Know How Fine Maturity Behave Restaurants

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“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.”

People World Needs Watches Power Five Authority Percent Behave Ninety Authority And Power

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.”

Men Fun Animal Clever Behave Imbeciles Clever Man

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“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.”

Thinking Play Might Force Sports Loss Ability Deals Taken Victory Models Fairs Scales Behave Strategic Brutes Brute Force Strategic Thinking

Author:Will Self

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

Thinking World Persons Goodness Behave

Author:Vikram Seth

“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.”

Tree Consequence Seeds Behave Apples Sowing Sowing Seeds Avocados

Author:Tom Shadyac

“The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.”

Men Love Life Happiness Success Women Attitude Family Tests Anger Behave Quarrels Breeding Philanderer

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

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

Should Age Guy Information Should Have Behave Birthday Volume 60th Birthday

Author:Charlie Sheen

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

Community Moral Authority Behave

Author:Michael Shermer

“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.”

Giving Wells Kids School Jobs House Return Protect Behave Charming Polite Being Thankful Protect You Always Be Thankful

Author:Gene Simmons

“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.”

People Humans Has Beens Certain Rain Clouds Behave More Time Rainy Day Human Knowledge

Author:Herbert Simon

“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.”

Ifs Needs Government Would Be Dark Powerful Leader Citizens Behave Rely Incentives Secrecy Mislead

Book:Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter

Source: Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter

“Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.”

“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?”

Ifs Men Way Long Levels Emotional Months Men And Women Female Feminist Rational Supposed To Be Behave Cycles Logical Lowest Hormones

Book:Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

“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.”

People Thinking Way Kind Real Theater Behave Tension Contradiction

Book:Tom Stoppard in Conversation

Source: Tom Stoppard in Conversation

“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.”

Different Matter Jobs Motivation Next Worry Managers Permanent Behave Senior Private Sector Bureaucrats

Author:John Sununu

“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.”

Persons Father Saws Grew Grew Up Anger Calm Behave Fascinating Temperament

Author:Sachin Tendulkar

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

Way Quality Judging Discipline Doctrine Behave

Author:Tertullian

“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.”

Thinking Way Water Too Much Century Privilege Witness Behave Preservation Countryside Dumped Meddling

Author:Lewis Thomas

“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.”

People Way Want Children Behave Grandmother My Grandmother Old People Eccentric Short Time

Author:Julie Walters

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

World Believe Wells Country Hollywood Thirds Don't Believe Behave Crew Third World Third World Countries

Author:Rachel Weisz

“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.”

Ifs Men World Has Beens Ends Literature Chance Trouble Rate Behave Reasonable Cheerful Justified Cheerfulness Reasonable Man

Book:Apropos of Dolores by H. G. Wells (Illustrated)

Source: Apropos of Dolores by H. G. Wells (Illustrated)

“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.”

Life Is Courses Social Behave Private Life Social Life

Author:Arsene Wenger

“Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.”

Author:George Will

“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.”

Seems Government Choices Interest Groups Influence Economic Theory Behavior Analysis Behave Components Incentives Unfamiliar Interest Groups

Author:George Will

“You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.”

Knows World Needs Giving Hard Seems Goal Path Capable Aim Strive Endure Behave Hard Times Being The Best Persist Aim High

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.”

Way Situation Power Hero Noble Behave Motive Heroic Social Psychology

Author:Philip Zimbardo