Behave Quotes

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

If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.

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

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.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as flamboyant as I can.

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation.

The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.

It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.

We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.

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.

In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.

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.

The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!

I can't belong to groups. I've tried. I behave normally, but people don't look at me normally.

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

I couldn't be in a relationship and behave like somebody else or pretend I felt something I didn't feel. And that includes saying things I thought might jeopardize the relationship.

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.

Everybody has to make their own decisions about how they choose to behave.

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?

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.

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.

Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for them to do this than to guide young people to lives of greater meaning, effectiveness, and purpose.

Temptation to behave is terrible.