Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terence Lewis

By being an actor, one can explore various personalities of a human being, be that person, behave and live that person's life, and then you are back to your normal life.

James Howard Kunstler

The human race needs a time out from all this techno-magic-mischief, a period to reflect on what we've done and how we ought to behave with this stuff.

Gore Vidal

Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete with no more to accomplish; that, for better or worse, we are what we are, and the only danger to our comfort is external.

Gore Vidal

Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.

Don Cornelius

People who dance well, dress well, are well groomed and know how to behave seem to know others who dance, dress and behave well.

Washington would prefer that the provinces behave -- but Washington doesn't control the provinces.

Amin Maalouf

I have the profoundest respect for people who behave in a generous way because of religion. But I come from a country where the misuse of religion has had catastrophic consequences. One must judge people not by what faith they proclaim but by what they do.

Walter Kirn

A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.

Logan Pearsall Smith

To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.

Hunter King

The solution to putting an end to bullying is to stop it at the source but also to find out what is causing the person to behave the way that they do.

Jane Smiley

With horses, familiarity breeds comfort. If you haven't been around horses for a while (or ever), the best thing to do is to go to the racetrack, a horse show, a rodeo, or some other horsey activity, and watch the horses. Familiarize yourself with the way they move and behave themselves.

Susan Minot

A lot of readers want characters to behave in a responsible way, or they want to understand the characters' dilemma and act, in a way, on their behalf.

Our live set's become increasingly complex recently; we've been doing stuff that's been vastly too much information for most people to deal with and I think it's quite interesting watching how people behave in those situations, under those circumstances.

Stephen Covey

You can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

James Rothman

One of the major lessons in all of biochemistry, cell biology and molecular medicine is that when proteins operate at the sub cellular level, they behave in a certain way as if they're mechanical machinery.

David Russell

One of the most disappointing things about the case is that union members had their hopes raised for no good reason. They were given the false impression that William Hill had behaved inappropriately and that there was a pot of money to compensate them,

My daughter is a very girly girl and this is the kind of thing she'd like to do anyways. Now I feel much more confident when I send her to a friend's house -- I don't have to worry whether she's going to behave or not. Reinforcing her manners from a third party really made an impact on her.

Charles Bronson

I wouldn't tell Jill how I felt. I behaved in such a way that was opposite to how I felt. I must have seemed strong to her. I didn't want to bring her down.

Karen Maitland

The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.

Laura Wade

I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.

Angeles Mastretta

I believe that there is an important part of every human being that is defined in terms of their significant other: how we choose our partner, and how we behave when we are with them. And that is the part that interests me. How that part of the personality is forged doesn't just interest me, it fascinates me.

Given an opportunity to behave the way that people are accusing (Hallowell) of doing, he did not, ... If (Hallowell) were so inclined to bring a developer to somebody, it would have been me, and he didn't.

Scott Turow

I love criminal law. It must be the Dostoyevskian streak in me. I'm fascinated by the accumulation of forces that make people behave in ways that everybody else hates.

I am extremely proud of my students. They made me feel proud to work in Incline. They worked hard in class and were incredibly well behaved on the trip down and back.

Just recently I was reading a message that was hurtful and hateful. People are not perfect and sometimes we don't always behave appropriately. We make poor decisions and we wish we could take something hurtful back that we have said. But this is not a perfect world. That is why children become scared, worried, and anxious. The Core Values and programs like STAND (students taking a new direction) are a means in which to make our students safer and more successful.

I suspect the main reason is that the players are fundamentally well behaved on-field. They have become more and more disciplined.

It came as no surprise. These guys behaved like dictators.

Shakira

My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.

What we have done is computational modeling-that is, using mathematical models coupled on the computer-to simulate the function of the brain. By observing circuits, we can see the way they behave and are controlled.

Fabio Capello

His response to being left out of the team over the last few weeks has been brilliant. He has not been involved but he never sulked and behaved like a real professional both on and off the pitch.

We take significant steps to make sure the sender is legitimate and behaves appropriately. We only support permission-based messages to existing customers.

Viktor Yushchenko

There is an anecdote. It does not really matter whether a man has a daughter or does not have a daughter. It is enough to say in public that his daughter does not behave herself well.

Humans in situations like this, and at a greater personal cost to themselves, are willing to behave in generous ways with complete strangers, ... These chimps were not motivated to provide rewards to others, even those that they knew socially. In order to be pro-social, you have to demonstrate that it is about the other. This just didn't happen.