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Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. -- Penn Jillette
Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside. -- Julie Andrews
Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion. -- Penn Jillette
When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children. -- William Feather
Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. -- Will Cuppy
Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it? -- Matthew Weiner
We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today. -- Albert Ellis
If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino. -- Mads Mikkelsen
I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion. -- Jay Weatherill
We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products. -- Dave Ramsey
The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society. -- Roy Hattersley
When you play a guitar for a long time, you get your hand oils in there; it starts feeling good and behaving, and you just don't want to mess with that. -- Mac DeMarco
Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves. -- Herbert Simon
When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction. -- Jesse Eisenberg
I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish. -- Nathan Lane
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. -- Aldous Huxley
You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair. -- Navid Negahban
In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery. -- Jarvis Cocker
The guard rails on a highway may restrict some folks from driving the way they want, but those rules mostly end up saving the lives of those other drivers who understand that living in a society means behaving in a commonly beneficial way. -- Steven Weber
In a world where everyone is behaving honestly, any dishonesty constitutes a big infraction. But, in a world where many people are behaving dishonestly, and the news is filled with stories of their infractions, even big infractions can feel small to the perpetrator. -- Dan Ariely
There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people. -- Vince Cable
If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences. -- Nick Cave
Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct. -- Marianne Williamson
I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it. -- Leo Buscaglia
I try to live my life as honestly as I can, and the last thing I want is to pretend to be something I'm not. To pretend to myself I am a sex symbol would somehow be dishonest. I'd feel, in my heart, that I were behaving artificially and that's the last thing I want to do. -- Cherie Lunghi
You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them. -- Felix Dennis
I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their palms. I think it's a terrible lesson, to use physical punishment to make a point about not behaving, not being kind to their siblings, to other people. I mean that's just absurd. But I've lost it, I understand it. -- Ayelet Waldman
Latham is behaving like a crazy man. -- Michelle Grattan
Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances. -- Sanford Meisner
We considered behaving, but it's against our nature. -- O. R. Melling
Consistency isn't behaving the same way all the time. -- Ken Blanchard
I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened. -- Katherine Paterson
Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did. -- Paulo Coelho
Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly. -- David McCullough
You need to start behaving like the person you want to attract. -- Amy Dickinson
So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God. -- Mignon McLaughlin
The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters. -- Gloria Steinem
Animals talking are very rarely funny. But animals behaving as animals - always funny. -- Adam McKay
By behaving in ways that build trust with one, you build trust with many. -- Stephen Covey
You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it. -- Keegan-Michael Key
To adopt nuclear disarmament would be akin to behaving like a virgin in a brothel. -- David Penhaligon
Living with integrity means... behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. -- Barbara de Angelis
Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine. -- George Orwell
The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers. -- David Lloyd George
Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian. -- Albert Camus
The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously. -- Julian Barnes
Change can come in either of two important ways: Start behaving positively or stop behaving negatively. -- Phil McGraw
When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them. -- C. S. Lewis
A dinery server behaving like a pureblood attracts trouble; trouble attracts blame; blame demands a scrapegoat. -- David Mitchell
Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as. -- Aldous Huxley
Why is the United States behaving so arrogantly? All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil. -- Nelson Mandela
If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire. -- Pat Buchanan
You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society. -- Kurt Vonnegut
We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so. -- Victor Hugo
Happiness comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs. -- Mike Rowe
You see people in different situations behaving in very different ways. That can only benefit you as an actor. -- Joshua Sasse
One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else? -- Kristin Cashore
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before. -- Idries Shah
There is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving naturally and people behaving naturally for a camera. -- Peter Schjeldahl
Until you start thinking right, you will never start behaving right. Repentance always deals with the changing of the mind. -- Johnny Hunt
Nobody ever gets enough appreciation when they're behaving themselves, but there's no end to hearing about it when they're not. -- Jean Ferris
I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive. -- Michael Moore
I said to my doctor, 'You gotta testme, there's something wrong with me that I would be behaving this way.' -- Richard Dreyfuss
Luck is not a magical ability or a gift from the gods. Instead, it is a way of thinking and behaving. -- Richard Wiseman
The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might. -- Gloria Steinem
You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do. -- Daniel Handler
In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us. -- Barry Lopez
Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already. -- C. S. Lewis
When it's just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that. -- Adam Rapp
All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards. -- Paul Feyerabend
Newspapers and magazines didn't want pictures of musicians behaving badly back then. Now, because of the Internet, that's all the media wants. -- Mick Rock
If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. -- Aldous Huxley
Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them. -- C. S. Lewis
If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool. -- Theophrastus
The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal relationship. -- Simone Weil
I like movies about women behaving badly, because women behave badly just like men, and we're not always adorable and cute about it. -- Greta Gerwig
Yes, I see that you are behaving like a prince but that doesn't mean you won't behave like a devil at the first opportunity. -- Deborah Harkness
It's shocking how sophisticated little kids can be, when it comes to behaving in a professional manner, and that's a credit to their parents. -- Sean Astin
Here was a corporation behaving like a monster though the individuals who owned its stock were human cultivated men. A corporation has no soul. -- Margaret Case Harriman
Politics feels, on what I have seen of it, like joining a tribe, and a lot of it is about unspoken ways of behaving. -- Rory Stewart
Leadership is a mindset in which one is unapologetically driven towards their goals and in behaving accordingly, inspires those around them to join in. -- Steve Maraboli
When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men. -- Simone de Beauvoir
I care more about making sure the story is correct and the characters are behaving in character than I do about the individual jokes. -- Michael Schur
When the whole world starts behaving like a big family, protecting and caring each other, the world will become a good place to live! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Always that "if" was there, which meant that the one who was doomed could avoid the doom if he would change his way of behaving. -- Malcolm X
Christian growth doesn't happen by first behaving better, but by believing better--believi ng in bigger, deeper, brighter ways what Christ has already secured for sinners. -- Tullian Tchividjian
In fine, that it is not enough to be good, without behaving in such a manner as shall make others acknowledge us to be so. -- Eliza Haywood
Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Religion isn't about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It's about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness. -- Karen Armstrong
We have recognized that the world is changing. How your children are behaving, how their friends are behaving. What they consume and what they watch. -- James Packer
The downside of aging is a slower metabolism and achy joints.The upside is a knowledge of self that prevents one from behaving like a baboon. -- Dov Davidoff
Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also connect with the irrational. -- John Muir
Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in feeling that you are behaving in an honorable and dignified manner. -Respect yourself by respecting others. -- Miya Yamanouchi
I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind. -- Gore Vidal
Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists on behaving like television. . . . -- Jeremy Bernstein
Religion isnâ??t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. Itâ??s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness. -- Karen Armstrong
I don't behave the way people necessarily want me to, but I tried behaving that other way for a short period of time and it didn't take. -- Jessa Crispin
Mick has expressed an interest in coming to the gallery tonight because he's seen me behaving myself lately. He is being much more supportive, which is nice. -- Ronnie Wood
I tried to nutmeg him. It never came off and he gave me a slap on the back of the head and told me to start behaving -- Steven Gerrard
The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less and behaving more. -- Gary Cole
I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this? -- Gael Garcia Bernal
We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect. -- A. N. Wilson
I have no interest in behaving or thinking cynically. But it's an easy trap to be cynical about anything, certainly when you're talking about politics or the media. -- Stephen Colbert
I regard many of the neoconservatives as personal friends, but that's not stopped them from behaving with extraordinary viciousness towards those of us who raised the immigration issue. -- Peter Brimelow
Congress is the great enabler, constitutionally, for progressive society, and it's the great graveyard, the way it's been behaving, against a prosperous society, or another billionaire or two. -- Ralph Nader
At the tail end of the great global boom, their old richer consumers are behaving more like new poorer ones, also increasingly concerned about cost, quality, and safety. -- Andrew Curry
Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally. -- Kurt Vonnegut
If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals. -- Robert McNamara
When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowardice is more disastrous than that of behaving with integrity. -- Naguib Mahfouz
It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you. -- Terence McKenna
Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates. -- George Eliot
Economists got away from really questioning how the world works, how decisions actually got made. If something doesn't conform to neoclassical models ... people are not somehow behaving themselves properly. -- W. Brian Arthur
We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader. -- Tom Baker
And also I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly. -- Benazir Bhutto
People are getting attention for doing nothing, for behaving poorly, for abusing themselves in public and being abused, exploiting themselves. I find it vulgar and I find it awful. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively." -- bell hooks
Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively. -- bell hooks
She knows the rituals, she knows how we're supposed to be behaving...But I think these things are impenetrable and fraudulent, and I can't do them without feeling I'm acting. -- Margaret Atwood
The true'to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving. -- William James

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