Quotes About Being Well Behaved

#1. I have searched all over the world but failed to see a virtue better than being well-behaved.

Rumi

#2. My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.

Robert Winston

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

Andy Weir

#4. I was so self -conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me.

Jackie Mason

#5. This world is moving around like a wheel. That indeed is the last birth in which one gets completely rid of all desires.

Sarada Devi

#6. Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.

Eve Ensler

#7. The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#8. An intimate walk with the Lord also appears to have the following benefits in relation to other team members: It makes one lovable, it makes one trustworthy and reliable, and it provides an attitude of encouragement.

J. Payne

#9. I challenge you to be the best you can be! I challenge you to behave in ways you've never behaved.

Eric Thomas

#10. We must stop being polite and behaved, and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.

Eve Ensler

#11. It was a fine thing indeed, Luna thought, being eleven. She loved the symmetry of it, and the lack of symmetry. Eleven was a number that was visually even, but functionally not - it looked one way and behaved in quite another. Just like most eleven-year-olds, or so she assumed.

Kelly Barnhill

#12. I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates ... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.

Clive James

#13. The work has to have room to breathe.

Rennie Harris

#14. The mind is a wild thing. An adventurer.

A. Spencer

#15. Between the Pope and air conditioning, I'd choose air conditioning.

Woody Allen

#16. Those ruffians, the Gods, shan't have it all their own way,
her notion being that the Gods, who never lost a chance of hurting, thwarting and spoiling human lives were seriously put out if, all the same, you behaved like a lady.

Virginia Woolf

#17. It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if you're too well behaved and don't want to break the rules. You have to think outside the box. That's what I believe. After all, what is the point of being on this earth if all you want to do is be liked by everyone and avoid trouble?

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#18. But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By saints I meant people who behaved decently in a strikingly indecent society.

Kurt Vonnegut

#19. If you have pendulum clocks on the wall and start them all at different times, after a while the pendulums will all swing in synchronicity. The same thing happens with heart cells in a Petri dish: They start beating in rhythm even when they're not touching one another.

Bruce Lipton

#20. A man who is more concerned with being a good man than being good at being a man makes a very well-behaved slave.

Jack Donovan

#21. We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.

Dalai Lama

#22. This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.

Marilyn Manson

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Tuskegee is a state of mind as it is a place, a place of possibility, hope, promise, self-empowerment, and where dreams come true.

Lionel

#28. A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path
[in Mediated Modeling page 43]

Donella H. Meadows

#29. 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

#30. 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