Quotes About Behaved

#1. It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?

Gregory Maguire

#2. 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.

Charles Bronson

#3. Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

Jeff Goodell

#4. They all behaved as if they were absolutely disgusted by this, and amid the ribbing and hilarity that this elaborate performance of disgust and envy produced they were able to hide their true feelings of disgust and envy.

Jonathan Lynn

#5. I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.

Herman Wouk

#6. I was not very well-behaved. I remember I was a discipline problem. I was a typical American male at twenty years old, and I was causing trouble whenever I could.

Peter DeLuise

#7. A good boy almost all of the time, as well behaved as a loyal hound

Emma Straub

#8. But what was the point, the purpose, of my salvation if it did not permit me to behave with love toward others, no matter how they behaved toward me? What others did was their responsibility, for which they would answer when the judgment trumpet sounded.

James Baldwin

#9. He had had an inkling, even then, that only by losing himself, the well-behaved Connecticut boy he'd always been, might he ever hope to find his other, truer self.

Paul Russell

#10. You know, all spider-like and mother fucking huge and hairy, he made up for with how he behaved and how he treated me.

Mark Alders

#11. She knew that people generally behaved only as well as they had to.

Daisy Goodwin

#12. Had you behaved in a more gentleman like manner!

Jane Austen

#13. You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!

Stephen R. Covey

#14. Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.

Mary Jo Putney

#15. Juliana behaved as if she was performing for an unknown, ever-present viewer

Gabby Bess

#16. These days, kids need to be sensitive and care about others. Not even fake-caring either, but they're actually expected to worry about everyone's every feeling. Children basically have to behave as no adult has behaved ever.

Bijou Hunter

#17. All science ever did was measure a teensy sliver of the universe and assume that everything else behaved the same way.

Peter Watts

#18. Why had Althea's crazed words affected Etta like this? Then the answer came to him: she was pregnant. Women always behaved strangely when they were pregnant.

Robin Hobb

#19. When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.

Philip Yancey

#20. It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question is how would we have behaved in the face of danger and when forced to make major moral choices.

Antony Beevor

#21. Well we're waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real

Billy Joel

#22. The Republican movement have not behaved properly over the years. They have not themselves implemented the Agreement. If they had implemented the Agreement then they would have disarmed completely in May 2000, that is what they undertook to do, that is what they failed to do.

David Trimble

#23. If this goes on . . ." fiction takes an element of life today, something clear and obvious and normally something troubling, and asks what would happen if that thing, that one thing, became bigger, became all-pervasive, changed the way we thought and behaved.

Ray Bradbury

#24. Why was it that her temper and her thinking never happened at the same time? Her temper behaved like a glutton sitting in an expensive restaurant ordering a hundred dishes, only to disappear when the bill came due. It left her lucid mind to do dishes.

Ann Brashares

#25. If people wanted you to write nice things about them, they should have behaved better towards you.

Peedie William

#26. Sure enough, the water heated up. That's not really a surprise, but it's nice to see thermodynamics being well behaved.

Andy Weir

#27. Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.

Mason Cooley

#28. One Direction. Proper pop band. There has to be a band that people want to scream at. I don't think I've ever behaved like a pop star.

Chris Lowe

#29. Neither of us, me nor Dennis, is cavalier about a breakup. We both behaved very honorably.

Meg Ryan

#30. By focusing only on jobs and inflation - and, in effect, only on the former - the Fed behaved myopically, indeed politically.

Raghuram G. Rajan

#31. I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.

Robert Redford

#32. I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

Brigitte Bardot

#33. The truth is I like the crazy ones better than the well-behaved ones normally because they tend to be the passionate ones. They never come after you if you're holding up your end. The only thing that's bad about an abusive director is that they bully the people they can.

Willem Dafoe

#34. The dog has behaved himself quite well all day, and the show is doing fantastically well in the ratings ... I have no reason to be sad!

Robert Stack

#35. You behave like an unknown stranger to the loved ones and to the outer world, you portray to be the nicest-bestest-calmest-well-behaved-EST , This-EST and That-EST..
Yes, You're earning the appreciation of others but how much your near and dear ones hate you.. you cannot count,my dear!

Himmilicious

#36. I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.

Harry Mathews

#37. Only the passionate were immortal, it seemed. If you fought, screwed, screamed, laughed, or otherwise experienced life intensely, for better or worse, you left a record. Those who lived a quiet, well-behaved, well-tempered life? Gone without a trace.

Magnus Flyte

#38. The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify themselves by saying that they invented new rules of propriety according to which they are quite well- behaved.

Franz Grillparzer

#39. India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.

Karisma Kapoor

#40. What mattered was not what you believed but how you behaved. Religion was about doing things that changed you at a profound level.

Karen Armstrong

#41. Nursery schools and bars at 2 a.m. are the only places where it is completely normal if someone just spontaneously throws up on the floor ... and just like a toddler, the bar patron wakes up the next day not remembering or caring how they behaved.

Jim Gaffigan

#42. Hip to the fact that well-behaved women rarely make history, Diane [Wilson] has already inspired a new movement of totally uncontrollable, irresistible and unreasonable women!

Medea Benjamin

#43. By the time we hit the streets they were silent and closed in on us, and they had assumed the Nonchalant Look, an expression that said, I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor. But they were, and we were their six lunatics, so we behaved like lunatics.

Susanna Kaysen

#44. My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.

Honor Blackman

#45. Well behaved women do not make history.

Mae West

#46. Yeah, Atatsuki, don't call him by that name. It's rude! Kuran-sama is handsome, well-behaved, and a perfect honor student. Calling him "gang leader" would ruin his image!! At least call him "SUPREME GANG LEADER!!

Matsuri Hino

#47. I met my second husband on a bus. We looked at each other and that was it. We were both married to other people at the time and behaved badly, but we didn't seem to have any choice. We were very happy for nearly 50 years and would still be together if it wasn't for the bloody railways.

Nina Bawden

#48. I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people.

Augustine Of Hippo

#49. Indeed," Jamie said politely. "I believe that was the Crown's notion in executing my grandsire on Tower Hill after the Rising. Verra effective, too; all my relations have been quite well behaved since.

Diana Gabaldon

#50. Suddenly I saw things differently, and because I saw differently, I thought differently, I felt differently, I behaved differently.

Stephen R. Covey

#51. I used to drum on the table at school. I think a handful of my school reports say that they thought I might have some kind of ADD because I was making sounds. I was far from being an ADD child. I was actually quite quiet and well-behaved. But I used to drum on things.

Jamie Cullum

#52. Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I'm not sure whether they're intrinsically this way, or there are just fewer opportunities for them to do behave badly. You can't go around running red lights if there aren't any red lights to run.

Linwood Barclay

#53. Poirot and I behaved in the customary fashion of people being shown over houses. We stood stock still, looking a little ill at ease, murmuring remarks such as: "Very nice." "A very pleasant room." "The morning-room, you say?

Agatha Christie

#54. My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

Steve Ballmer

#55. The Holocaust is a great warning to us all. We shall never forget our sisters and brothers. We have to ensure it is not repeated and to ensure we never go back to the days when humans behaved as beasts. Forgetfulness is a menace, we must remember.

Shimon Peres

#56. I could lecture on dry oak leaves; I could, but who would hear me? If I were to try it on any large audience, I fear it would be no gain to them, and a positive loss to me. I should have behaved rudely toward my rustling friends.

Henry David Thoreau

#57. Christ loved me enough to die for me while I was yet His enemy. If God had waited for me to learn to love Him before He died, I would never have been saved. I knew that with my head, but when I met someone who behaved in such a completely Christlike way, I was amazed. - Helen Roseveare

Noel Piper

#58. If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.

Jenny Holzer

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

Douglas Conant

#60. The agony of being unable to answer the question of why are we the way we are, divisively instead of cooperatively behaved, has been the particular burden of life. It has been our species' particular affliction or condition - our human condition.

Jeremy Griffith

#61. As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

Lew Wallace

#62. I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.

Cameron Diaz

#63. Conspiracies existed, to be sure; many of them, and many were dark indeed. But fiendish? Fiendishness required brains. Nine times out of ten, conspirators behaved like buffoons and wound up exposing themselves out of sheer, bumbling incompetence.

Eric Flint

#64. But I thought that if people behaved like victims they would become victims, if people expected the worst to happen then it invariably did.

I could see now how wrong I was. Sometimes people don't volunteer to be victims and they become victims anyway.

Marian Keyes

#65. The way the Americans behaved created among the South Vietnamese a lot of habits, a lot of bad habits I would say.

Bui Diem

#66. In any case, the life of a drunk is presumably livelier than that of the ordinary well-behaved citizen. And then - I read that once somewhere - the life of a hedonist is the best preparation for becoming a mystic.
People like St. Augustine are always the ones that become visionaries.

Hermann Hesse

#67. Freedom's never been free, there's always been a price to be paid, but people have forgotten; they're handing their freedom, their lives, over like well behaved puppets on a string ... slavery is returning by choice.

L.M. Fields

#68. The popular conception of free will seems to rest on two assumptions: (1) that each of us could have behaved differently than we did in the past, and (2) that we are the conscious source of most of our thoughts and actions in the present.

Sam Harris

#69. My bottom is my deliquent daughter. I lavish praise upon her cheeks when she's well behaved and when she gets out of control, I pretend she isn't mine.

Anna Johnson

#70. I'm sorry. I behaved like a jerk.
You did.
Is that forgiveness?
I'm not sure. I think it's an acknowledgment of imperfection. And an admission that I believe time is too short to hold a grudge.

Janet Mullany

#71. I was quite pleased that Prince Philip didn't say anything like, I hate queers! He was quite well behaved.

Allan Carr

#72. I'm not interested in meeting management today ... I'm more interested in finding out how a person has behaved in the past.

Bruce Berkowitz

#73. You see, I'd behaved pretty badly. Losing my head about someone I didn't really love and hurting someone I did. Why is one so stupid?"
"The heart has its reasons," said Will, "and the endocrines have theirs.

Aldous Huxley

#74. When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card.
(Sadie Lancaster - to Lara Lington)

Sophie Kinsella

#75. My mom worked as a psychiatric social worker. She was interested in people, and I guess I am, too. So we would talk about the people that we knew, and why they behaved the way they did.

Julianne Moore

#76. The staff, stage managers, ushers all behaved as if they respected the actors.

Estelle Parsons

#77. Instead, an unexpected surprise was waiting for her when she walked in the door. Daisy's trusty West Highland Terrier Shamus was usually so well-behaved. Unfortunately, Shamus picked that night to misbehave.

K.M. Morgan

#78. I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.

Deb Caletti

#79. The headmaster [ ... ] pledged that, provided he behaved himself, he would be duly sheltered and cared for by the state for the rest of his days. It did not occur to any of the boys, nor their fathers, that all this would perhaps not really be free.

Hermann Hesse

#80. Ojiugo often asked, 'But are they treating you well? Are they treating you well?' as though the treatment was what mattered, rather than the blighted reality of it all, that he was in a holding center, about to be deported. Nobody behaved normally. They were all under the spell of his misfortune.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#81. If you behaved properly, they would, but knowing you like their nonsense, they keep it up, and then you blame them.

Louisa May Alcott

#82. During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Milos Forman, Sidney Lumet, James Lapine, unbelievably gifted people. So there I was, saying, 'Don't talk to me, I don't want your opinion.' I behaved abominably.

Mandy Patinkin

#83. It's not like it's hard to be decent and respectful and well-behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#84. It was like a bad dream, in which people one knew quite well behaved fantastically, and one was powerless to escape from some dreadful doom.

Georgette Heyer

#85. Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.

William Shenstone

#86. He told Bill that humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.

Kurt Vonnegut

#87. Even when I knew people were cheating me, what was important was how I behaved, because I have to answer to God. I can't be responsible for other people's actions: They will have to answer to God themselves

Muhammad Ali

#88. I went to a psychotherapist for a year and a bit, and it was fantastic. I went in with a very clear question: I couldn't work out why I behaved in a certain way in certain situations, and I got that answered.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

#89. By teaching our children to stay in line we create well-behaved followers. While this may make parenting a bit easier, it has enormous costs later in life. These same children grow up to be unhappy adults who desperately want to lead their own lives, yet lack the necessary skills to do so.

Cheryl Richardson

#90. That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to.

Scott Westerfeld

#91. I maintain that he is in his right mind, and that if he had not been, he would have behaved more cleverly.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#92. Didn't it seem like really thin, gorgeous people were always so mean? Where did they get that aura of entitlement? And didn't it seem like people always fawned over them even though they behaved badly? Why was that?

Lisa Unger

#93. That's what being Jewish is: summoning the means to question who you are and how you have behaved. Have you remained alight in the darkness of cruel wishes,..? Have you forgiven? Have you lived up to the standards of your one and only heart?

Emily Franklin

#94. I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.

Mickey Rourke

#95. He drank and behaved outrageously because it was expected of him: he was living up to his legend.

William Peter Blatty

#96. Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#97. A man hates the person he has wronged, paradoxically. I think it's because the victim is a perpetual reminder that he behaved shamefully.

Ken Follett

#98. Teaching our children to be well-behaved, good citizens is proper as far as it goes. But we must never mistake this training for Christian nurture or discipline, nor should we mistake their acquiescence to our social mores as true Christian righteousness.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#99. If I pretended to be "normal" and behaved just like everybody else, if I masked my emotions and smiled a lot, even if I felt disconsolate, nobody would be able to tell

Preeti Shenoy

#100. English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.

Deborah Harkness