Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karrine Steffans

We have to change our behavior, ... We are the mother, the first teacher, and we have to start our own revolution. We need to speak up and say we don't like this music, we don't want to wear these clothes, and we need to educate ourselves and stop letting the men get all that airtime.

We have seen similar behavior in the past.

Graham Alexander

This shows that behavior in snakes is more complex than we previously thought.

We see this as an extremely serious allegation of unacceptable behavior,

The government has a legitimate interest in helping preserve not only public health, but public morals as well. The mere fact that this behavior occurs in private doesn't mean the public doesn't have a stake in these behaviors.

Turkey's behavior during the conflict shows that Turkey no longer is a typical Islamic country. But that's exactly what makes it less credible as a mediator.

Undesirable behaviors can be changed positively by using behavior modification.

First and foremost, this decision shows this type of behavior will not be tolerated.

Michael K. Powell

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

The governor doesn't believe that people should be rewarded for illegal behavior. But the resolution is unnecessary.

When you got over $3, you did see behavior change. That does seem to be the magic number, $3 to $3.50.

David Souter

Every defendant knows, if endowed with the mental competence for criminal responsibility, that the life he will take by his homicidal behavior is that of a unique person, like himself, and that the person to be killed probably has close associates, 'survivors,' who will suffer harms and deprivations from the victim's death.

Carlo Ratti

The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.

We have made very clear to the government of Sudan that that kind of future behavior is just unacceptable." ()

Wen Jiabao

We must change the function of government. We must build up a government with regulated behavior and harmonious operations -- and which is fair, transparent, clean and efficient.

When we look at behavior patterns of most Americans, we're really doing minor things to make a difference. There's not a lot of difference, in many ways, from evangelicals and the public at large.

When J&J lowered the price and came in at $63 a share, it was probably closer to what is the real worth of Guidant. The only thing I can say is this behavior, certainly the behavior of Boston Scientific, is not rational here. I just think they are playing a very dangerous game.

I think if you study people in the street today, you do sometimes feel that they have taken their behavior and their language from things that they have seen rather than read - from soap operas and movies and so on.

We wake up at 3 and 4 in the morning to move the trains in this town. That's not the behavior of thugs and selfish people.

Paul Volcker

We have found no corruption by the secretary general, ... his behavior has not been exonerated by any stretch of the imagination.

We've got 'trigger points' set up depending on what the weather does and what the fire behavior does. This fire is just really devastating.

We already have some specific language about proper behavior in general.

There is no question whether emotion plays a part of decision making. It plays a part of all behavior.

We think their behavior is outrageous for normal business commerce. Essentially they have refused to negotiate with us.

Confucius

Tsze-Kung asked, "Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others

We wouldn't interfere with infants or toddlers unless their behavior interfered with functioning, for example, if they were really aggressive. Most can do fine until ... they're around other children.

Wendy Wright

The recommendation will not rescue patients and neither does it promote healthy behavior. Instead, they have been promoting programs that encourage riskier activities.

There has never, never been an instance found where any sort of anti-competitive behavior led to price increases in this industry,

Michael Eisner

There has been (talk on Wall Street) that major media companies are out of favor. I have seen this chicken-little behavior before, ... I have worked in the industry for four decades. At least once a decade they fall out of favor, but each time they emerge stronger than ever. This is for cyclical economic reasons.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was life on Mars, about the environment in which Earth and the Sun is immersed, the behavior of the Sun.

Parents have lost control. Children are running the show. The tougher I am, the (further) they will come in terms of behavior change.

Alan Greenspan

Over most of the past several years, the behavior of unit labor costs has been quite subdued, ... But those costs have turned up of late, and whether the favorable trends of the past few years will be maintained is unclear.