Famous Quotes & Sayings

All the transactions were made in accordance to the Public Construction Committee's regulations. If a man's integrity is compromised by following orders, then how should public servants behave in the future?

The first thing they learn is discipline. You do what you're told, and you behave and listen to instructions.

You can't talk your way out of what you've behaved yourself into.

Douglas Conant

You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into.

Michel Faber

If someone's a cartoon villain, you can dismiss them, but if they behave despicably but you kind of like them, they really get under your skin.

Peter Horton

I consider myself a reasonable man. As such, I tend to expect others to behave with a modicum of reason and common sense. Especially those with power.

Philip Kerr

I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me.

Martin Van Creveld

If you are strong, and you are fighting the weak for any period of time, you are going to become weak yourself. If you behave like a coward, then you are going to become cowardly - it's only a question of time.

You can script exactly how you want the system to behave when things go wrong.

The market behaved worse than most anticipated going into this period because the conditions of the economy were worse than any of us judged it to be. Earnings were revised down steadily and that kind of downward revision was not tolerated well.

The kids are great drivers, ... They were all well behaved and it's my pleasure to give these kids the same opportunities I had when I was young.

The jury understood the company behaved responsibly in regard to developing this drug and in marketing this drug. We feel very vindicated.

T. S. Eliot

To become what you are not, behave as you do not.