Top 100 Quotes About Well Behaved
#1. Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?
Jeff Goodell
#2. 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
#3. A good boy almost all of the time, as well behaved as a loyal hound
Emma Straub
#4. 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
#5. Sure enough, the water heated up. That's not really a surprise, but it's nice to see thermodynamics being well behaved.
Andy Weir
#6. Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.
Mason Cooley
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Well behaved women do not make history.
Mae West
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. I was quite pleased that Prince Philip didn't say anything like, I hate queers! He was quite well behaved.
Allan Carr
#21. 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
#22. I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.
Deb Caletti
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.
Deborah Harkness
#28. I would never scream at my kids, never raise my voice. But as they often tell me, they were so well behaved that screaming was not necessary.
Marv Albert
#29. The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
Kate Winslet
#30. 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
#31. I'm from a fancy, well-raised background. We were very well-behaved and not allowed to swear. It's the kind of place where people hide their problems under the rug and pretend it's all perfect. Eventually, you get sick of that.
Tove Lo
#32. My parents are very well-behaved. If anything, if my Mom were here right now, she would hug and kiss every one of you hello, and then she would feed you.
Tina Fey
#33. If only others knew that Lady Calpurnia Hartwell, proper, well-behaved spinster, entertained deep-seated and certainly unladylike thoughts about fictional heroes.
Sarah MacLean
#34. 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
#35. The most debilitating characteristic of even the most well-behaved psychopath is the inability to form a workable team.
Robert D. Hare
#36. 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
#37. I have thrown chairs, but only during football matches. Generally, I am well-behaved. I do not like to make people angry.
Jose Carreras
#38. And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life.
Toni Morrison
#40. When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.
Eva Zeisel
#41. By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not like that at all.
Claire Tomalin
#42. The reality is that well-behaved students aren't behaving themselves because of the school discipline program. They're behaving themselves because they have the skills to handle life's challenges in an adaptive fashion.
Ross W. Greene
#43. Didn't you have any sadistic nannies who told you these tales to keep you quiet and well behaved at night? Heavens, what's to become of the Empire if governesses have lost their touch for scaring the wits out of their girls?
Libba Bray
#44. I'm not very good with conventional, prim-and-proper people who are well-behaved, grown-up.
Lesley Nicol
#46. It's the look you give a well-behaved imbecile, an insurance policy against cosmic malevolence.
Dominic Smith
#47. But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest.
Gautama Buddha
#48. The other shoppers were too well behaved to stare at the green-headed stoner and the tear-streaked lady zigzagging up the aisles with a chubby bearded guy scurrying behind them picking up the things they dropped.
Amy Goldman Koss
#49. All my life I've been well behaved," she said. "It's about time I got to push people around and not apologize.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#50. In primary school I was terrible. I don't think I was particularly well behaved in high school, but I started to apply myself.
Jonathan LaPaglia
#51. I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so.
Colin Farrell
#52. No one asks public men to be strictly moral, but they must seem to be well-behaved.
Storm Jameson
#54. I have searched all over the world but failed to see a virtue better than being well-behaved.
Rumi
#55. What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#56. I was like one of those nauseatingly nice children. I was very, very well behaved and boring.
Helena Bonham Carter
#57. It's almost embarrassing how well-behaved I was, which is probably why I do things like spit water on myself onstage as an adult.
Karen O
#58. Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.
Pope Leo XIII
#59. Mr. Speaker, there are some in this Chamber who believe that Christians, like well-behaved children, should be seen and not heard ... Christians will not remain silent. We are here to stay.
Tom DeLay
#60. But a male tree produces only small, well-behaved flowers - that is, if your definition of well behaved includes spewing plant sperm into the air for weeks on end.
Amy Stewart
#61. Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
Calvin Trillin
#62. Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
#63. Cleopatra descended from a long line of murderers and faithfully upheld the family tradition but was, for her time and place, remarkably well behaved.
Stacy Schiff
#64. Storm cannot be well-behaved, it cannot be calm, and it cannot be kind! If it can be all these things, then it cannot be a storm!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#65. I realized that this is what many people in our society seem to want most from children: not that they are caring or creative or curious, but simply that they are well behaved.
Alfie Kohn
#67. Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.
Aldous Huxley
#68. My daughter is wonderful and incredibly well behaved. I am very lucky. She will always be my priority.
Jamelia
#69. Stupidity knows no bounds and certainly no city limits, but by and large, 99 percent of the people who come to Melvins shows seem to be relatively well behaved ... I'm happy and relieved by this.
Buzz Osborne
#70. Every dog should have a man of his own. There is nothing like a well-behaved person around the house to spread the dog's blanket for him, or bring him his supper when he comes home man-tired at night.
Corey Ford
#71. The name Derek Jeter is made for stardom. He's got an infectious smile, and he's so handsome and well-behaved. He's just a fine young man who does everything right. He's like Jack Armstrong and Frank Merriwell, guys I grew up rooting for. Some guys come along who just measure up.
George Steinbrenner
#72. It's the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don't say a word, they don't hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay dearly.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#73. When 'The Cosby Show' came out, and everyone was up in arms about 'The Cosby Show' and that it was reflecting a world that didn't exist - but I knew black doctors. And I knew black lawyers. And I knew families that, you know, had a mother and a father and kids that were well-behaved.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
#74. Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
W.S. Gilbert
#75. Walking onto his terrace those first months to see in the distance the well-behaved mountain sitting under the sun might provoke a reverie about the calm that follows catastrophe.
Susan Sontag
#76. I was brought up to do my duty. Not to be vain, not to shout from the rooftops about my virtues - to be modest and well-behaved. I'm totally wrong for show business.
Terry Wogan
#77. 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
#78. Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.
B.F. Skinner
#79. I've always been told I was extremely well-behaved as a kid.
Prince Andrew
#80. My brother was scouted for a commercial when he was three, and it was just because he could speak clearly and was well behaved, basically. I don't think he had any amazing acting ability at that age - although he is actually a great actor.
Rose McIver
#81. A quiet well-behaved boy is likely to be both frightened and ambitious.
Mason Cooley
#82. My son is an inspired child, a very positive and happy child. The year he was born, he travelled 13 countries with us. I still remember he was so well behaved that the flight attendants used to thank him!
Sonu Nigam
#84. We honed our egos on her, padded our characters with her frailty, and yawned in the fantasy of our strength.
And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved.
Toni Morrison
#85. Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.
Ernestine Rose
#86. Whilst Man, however well-behaved,
At best is but a monkey shaved!
Charles Darwin
#87. Well behaved people and dreamers seldom make history. In fact, history has no place for such people.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#88. I know that sounds odd, but I have always felt that the English love children as long as they are polite, quiet, and well behaved. Americans seem to love children however they behave.
Jane Green
#89. I appreciate my my sleep In sleep my conversation is witty My home is dusted My office work is up to date The dog is even well behaved And food is on the table on time But then when I'm asleep I don't have you to clutter and confuse My hungry heart
Nikki Giovanni
#91. She knew that people generally behaved only as well as they had to.
Daisy Goodwin
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.
Lew Wallace
#95. 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
#96. If i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well?
Henry David Thoreau
#97. If machines do everything well, including allocating capital and resources efficiently, can that be deflationary, can that eliminate poverty? I don't know. It's hard to be very optimistic if you look at how humans have behaved historically.
Stanley Druckenmiller
#98. Imagine the jacket copr: People behaved mostly well and then they died.
Gillian Flynn
#99. Our little ford was almost ready. She was later to be called Auntie after Gertrude Stein's aunt Pauline who always behaved admirably in emergencies and behaved fairly well most times if she was properly flattered.
Gertrude Stein
#100. Now," Kvothe said angrily, "you've both acted understandably, but that does not by any means mean that either of you have behaved well.
Patrick Rothfuss
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