Behavior Quotes

My experience is that Delhi behaves the way the leadership defines.

Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener.

Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.

It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

There are two levers for moving men, interest and fear.

If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.

This limited degree of concern is a reflection of an inner conflict which measures cautiously the impact of any change on the status quo. As the nation passes from opposing extremist behavior to the deeper and more pervasive elements of equality, white America reaffirms its bonds to the status quo. It had contemplated comfortably hugging the shoreline but now fears that the winds of change are blowing it out to sea.

It may be true that morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important also.

For usually when people are self-centered, they are self-centered because they are seeking attention, they want to be admired and this is the way they set out to do it. But in the process, because of their self-centeredness, they are not admired; they are mawkish and people don't want to be bothered with them. And so the very thing they seek, they never get. And they end up frustrated and unhappy and disillusioned.

We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.

I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards, our dwellings shape us.

This sort of behavior is left to the psychotic, dogmatic, fundamentalist believers you see on your TV everyday letting off bombs and killing people in the name of God. Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

I was an adult when I was supposed to be a kid. So now I'm an adult and I'm acting like a kid.

You've been acting like Jesus owes you a favor, but he's a little smart for you to fool.

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.

I'm inconsistent, even to myself.