A Quote by Suzette Haden Elgin

If you behave like a doormat, expect to be stepped on and don't complain about it.

Suzette Haden Elgin

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Suzette Haden Elgin
American - Fictioneer
November 18, 1936 - January 27, 2015

Things on a very small scale behave like nothing that you have any direct experience about. They do not behave like waves, they do not behave like particles, they do not behave like clouds, or billiard balls, or weights on springs, or like anything that you have ever seen.

Richard P. Feynman

I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.

Lucinda Williams

If you allow people to treat you like a doormat, they will expect you to say WELCOME.

Robert Breault

In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.

Naomi Weisstein

God is not a doormat, nor should anyone else be a doormat.

Lewis B. Smedes

You need to walk the talk, because you can't expect your organization to behave a certain way that you're not willing to behave.

Denise Morrison

I realized that I don't like touring. I'll never complain about it because no one wants to hear about a relatively successful musician complain about the hardships of staying in a hotel.

Moby

I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.

Elaine Dundy

The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.

William Proxmire

Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.

Susanna Clarke

If I say [electrons] behave like particles I give the wrong impression; also if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own inimitable way, which technically could be called a quantum mechanical way. They behave in a way that is like nothing that you have seen before.

Richard P. Feynman

But other people also 'invite' us to behave like victims, when they complain about the unfairness of life, for example, and ask us to agree, to offer advice, to participate. Be careful. When you join in that game you always end up losing.

Paulo Coelho

Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.

Enoch Powell

Me going to a big club when I was, like, 19 or 20, I didn't know what to expect, how to behave, whatever. I was just a youngster who wanted to do tricks. I didn't even care about end product, really.