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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. -- Albert Schweitzer
People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity. -- Marilyn Manson
Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis. -- Frank Auerbach
When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man? -- Edith Evans
I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature. -- Vikram Seth
The people of Zimbabwe have a responsibility to ensure that the government that they elected behaves properly. -- Thabo Mbeki
Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda. -- Paul Davies
If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes. -- Saskya Pandita
If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability. -- Murray Gell-Mann
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. -- Simone de Beauvoir
When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.' -- Karl Kraus
Cancer has enormous diversity and behaves differently: it's highly mutable, the evolutionary principles are very complicated and often its capacity to be constantly mystifying comes as a big challenge. -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
It seems Palestinians can't win. The language of peace negotiations has always been predicated on a representation that Palestinians are violent and that is why Israel behaves as it does. -- Randa Abdel-Fattah
My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his own borders, we should not be addressing any attack or resources against him. -- Dick Armey
I'm not saying Obama is right on everything. Of course not. He may be wrong on a number of things. But what I do know is that he behaves like a very, very sane man almost all the time. -- John Cleese
It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man. -- George Crook
Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it. -- Alan King
Much of the time, the things we feel guilty about are not our issues. Another person behaves inappropriately or in some way violates our boundaries. We challenge the behavior, and the person gets angry and defensive. Then we feel guilty. -- Melody Beattie
There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded. -- Jon Ronson
Israel was born under the British mandate. We learned from the British what democracy means, and how it behaves in a time of danger, war and terror. We thank Britain for introducing freedom and respect of human rights both in normal and demanding circumstances. -- Shimon Peres
If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color. -- Johnny Depp
I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the appearance is that you reward bad behavior. But if North Korea behaves for some period of time, I would pretty much favor direct talks. -- Richard Armitage
When we human beings hypothesize that a law of nature holds - even temporarily or situationally - we are creating an idea, but we are also making a hypothesis about how nature behaves, whose truth or usefulness has nothing to do with what we know or believe. -- Lee Smolin
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
No one intuitively understands quantum mechanics because all of our experience involves a world of classical phenomena where, for example, a baseball thrown from pitcher to catcher seems to take just one path, the one described by Newton's laws of motion. Yet at a microscopic level, the universe behaves quite differently. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
I would like to, in some capacity, observe how Tom Cruise goes about his business when it comes to making a movie and how he behaves on set and how he interacts with the crew because from everything that I've heard, it is the template for professionalism and just the way to conduct yourself as an actor. -- Stephen Amell
Everyone behaves badly--given the chance. -- Ernest Hemingway
A novice always behaves with propriety. -- Martial
Subsidies have changed the way the nation behaves. -- James Cook
Something is usable if it behaves exactly as expected. -- Joel Spolsky
Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost. -- Rinus Michels
He sometimes behaves like water, flowing around the obstacles he encounters. -- Paulo Coelho
My experience is that Delhi behaves the way the leadership defines. -- Narendra Modi
A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Wells Fargo behaves better than the average big bank. But nobody's perfect. -- Charlie Munger
A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight. -- George Bernard Shaw
Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
The world behaves differently when I take action to go after what I want. -- Price Pritchett
The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close. -- Alma Katsu
A man who behaves poorly in a Community will not do well in a parish. -- Vincent de Paul
A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would. -- Joel Spolsky
You can tell a lot about a man's character by how he behaves when given anonymity.. -- Dinesh Kumar Biran
Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell. -- Pete Townshend
She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm. -- Oscar Wilde
The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated. -- George Bernard Shaw
I knew my purpose well and clear: to show how Nature behaves without cluttering its beauty with abtruse mathematics. -- Julius Sumner Miller
One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently. -- Manuel Puig
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head. -- Niels Bohr
At the meeting you behaves exactly as Marathi novelists of the last century tell is husbands do in sari shops. -- Sachin Kundalkar
No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled. -- Francoise Sagan
A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
You need someone that behaves like James Bond more than you need someone that is an expert in some particular domain. -- Sam Altman
The only way to know how a complex system will behave-after you modify it-is to modify it and see how it behaves. -- George E. P. Box
...where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united... -- D. H. Lawrence
Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties. -- David K. Shipler
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Water has memory. Depending on how you treat it, what kind of thoughts and emotions you generate, accordingly it behaves in your body. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Seeing sound, the high order stuff that's not audible still affects how everything else behaves. There might be a visual metaphor for that somewhere. -- Jerry Garcia
A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is. -- Abraham Maslow
What appears to us solid is ultimately both a particle and a wavelength, and on that realm everything behaves as both a particle and a wave. -- Vanna Bonta
It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Dismantle your friend to see how he behaves. If he smiles with a beautiful grin, then take him back, he's worthy to be called a friend. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
No true Dharma Master behaves with rage, hate, ranting, self- importance. These are signs of mental instability, a character flaw. Never follow such a one as that. -- Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value. -- Theodore Roosevelt
If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes. -- Saskya Pandita
There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human. -- Karl Kraus
I consider the modernization of the Middle East the central challenge of our time. This region behaves as if it were disturbed, if you'll excuse the clinical expression. -- Zalmay Khalilzad
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go. -- Bertrand Russell
Because imaginary time behaves like another direction in space, histories in imaginary time can be closed surfaces, like the surface of the Earth, with no [existential] beginning or end. -- Stephen Hawking
It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs. -- Chris Patten
We have a right to expect a police force that protects our citizens and behaves in a responsible manner... in the American conscience there is no room for bigotry and racism. -- George H. W. Bush
I mean that psychologically. I think [Donald Trump] showed in the debates when he encounters criticism or challenge he behaves the way a bully would. He just doesn't take it well. -- William Weld
Jews, I know you're God's chosen people and the rest of us are just 'whatever', but when Israel behaves like a violent, psychopathic bully and someone mentions it, that doesn't make them anti-Semitic. -- Marcus Brigstocke
However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions. -- Wietse Venema
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us. -- James Truslow Adams
You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your paintings will have more drama and will evoke strong reactions. -- Mike Svob
Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism. -- Sigmund Freud
European government is a clear expression I still use, you need time, but step by step, as in the Austrian case, the European Commission takes a political decision and behaves like a growing government. -- Romano Prodi
The concept of "mental health" in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress. -- Theodore Kaczynski

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