Top 1200 Behaving Badly Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.

Since fresh examples and proofs could always be found of the alleged relation between guilt and punishment: if you behave in such and such a way, it will go badly with you. Now, as it generally does go badly, the allegation was constantly confirmed; and thus popular morality, a pseudo- science on a level with popular medicine, continually gained ground.

I heard my mother talking badly of me to people who were talking badly of me in her salon. That's probably the thing that I'm most sensitive of in all my friendships and my relationships. I just... I just can't take that. I'm comfortable with enemies, but I can't take it from friends.

As an actor, I believe that acting is actually behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.

My administration is going to stop the tens of thousands of people coming in from Syria. We have no idea who they are, where they come from. There's no documentation. There's no paperwork. It's going to end badly folks. It's going to end very, very badly.

People have become separated from their bodies. They are no longer whole. I see them move from their offices to their cars and on to their suburban homes. They stress out constantly, they lose sleep, they eat badly. And they behave badly. Their egos run wild; they become motivated by that which will eventually give them a massive stroke. They need the Iron Mind.

Eh Bien you like this sacred pig of a country?" asked Marco. "Why not? I like it anywhere. It's all the same, in France you are paid badly and live well; here you are paid well and live badly.

I said to my doctor, 'You gotta testme, there's something wrong with me that I would be behaving this way.'

Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.

Luck is not a magical ability or a gift from the gods. Instead, it is a way of thinking and behaving.

Even in South Carolina, as badly as we did, and we did very badly, we won the votes of people 29 years of age or younger. The future of the Democratic Party, the future of this country is involving young people in the political process, getting them to stand up for their rights.

Living with integrity means... behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.

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.

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.

Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

Why is the United States behaving so arrogantly? All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil.

The enemy is not the badly written page; it is the empty page the great advantage of a badly written page is that it can be rewritten. It can be improved. A blank page is zero. In fact, it’s worse than zero, because it represents territory you’re afraid, unwilling, or too lazy to explore. Avoid exploring this territory long enough, and you’ll abandon your book.

Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.

You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.

Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

When I'm acting, I have zero control, and it's the scariest thing anyone can do in that field because, you know, your face is always the one that's out there in front of the camera, and any number of things can happen to you once you've done your work. It can be edited badly, it can be distributed badly, or it can not be distributed at all. And I've certainly experienced that; every actor has.

Latham is behaving like a crazy man.

Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.

Playing football and presenting TV are totally different things, but there are similarities: it's exciting, it can go well, it can go badly... the difference is when presenting goes badly, it doesn't really affect anyone's life, whereas when you have a bad day on the pitch, it affects people's moods for a whole week.

Happiness comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs.

... one doesn't want to read badly any more than live badly, since time will not relent. I don't know that we owe God or nature a death, but nature will collect anyway, and we certainly owe mediocrity nothing, whatever collectivity it purports to advance or at least represent.

A lot of good movies produced well can be distributed or marketed badly. Of course, a lot of bad movies marketed well can also fail badly. But we want to be in charge of the value chain. And for this we have to be in software production, distribution, and broadcasting.

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.

One of the things I think the police have to do is to stop behaving like armies.

Can't Hardly Wait was a movie everyone wanted. I wanted the lead girl sooo badly, I think it was Lauren Ambrose. I wanted it so badly, I kept auditioning. I didn't get it, but I think everyone that auditioned - because everyone went out for it - got some screen time in it, like me.

It's not like I want someone to treat me badly. I want somebody who looks like they could treat me badly, but then really treats me good.

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

You were not supposed to show off in Negroland because you are supposed to be perfectly decorous and well behaved. You were also not supposed to tell any stories that reflected badly on the group because that reflected badly on the race. I use past tense, but it still feels like present tense.

The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

When it's just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.

To adopt nuclear disarmament would be akin to behaving like a virgin in a brothel.

The federal government has an exceptionally poor record of behaving responsibly with Americans' personal information when entrusted with it.

Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs.

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

I've had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I'm on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I'm not very adaptable.

We considered behaving, but it's against our nature.

Consistency isn't behaving the same way all the time.

In terms of behaving in a civic way, I feel my behavior is always exemplary.

They would have been very let down if they had to leave the theater and he had missed. He would feel badly. Everyone would feel badly. But he never let them down.

Nobody ever gets enough appreciation when they're behaving themselves, but there's no end to hearing about it when they're not.

The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

When I act, I try to understand the character, why she's behaving like that.

Don't feel badly when you take off work to go for a run, to go for a walk; don't feel badly to take time to play with your children, to be part of their lives. Work is important, but you can't work at your best unless you're a whole person.

All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.

I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.

Politics feels, on what I have seen of it, like joining a tribe, and a lot of it is about unspoken ways of behaving.

You need to start behaving like the person you want to attract.

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.