Top 1200 Inappropriate Behavior Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline to appetite and direction to behavior.

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.

When I went to college, I really became interested in cultural anthropology. Our behavior isn't that different from other primate species'.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior.

Actors really are the scum of the earth. Their behavior makes overpaid rock stars look positively noble.

If governments want to encourage good citizenship, they should try making the desired behavior more fun.

It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.

I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

One of the things that really does annoy me is just comments on my hair. Like 'your hair's not tidy,' or 'Ooh, what's this?' Just little comments that I just think are so inappropriate. Sometimes I'm just like, 'Is it really necessary?' But you know, as a black female, you do learn to just brush these things off, which isn't the way it should be.

The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.

I'm sure that my parents' behavior has entered my work, I'm sorry to say. I don't think you need to have a difficult childhood to be funny, but it helps.

When we're actually modeling good behavior, and when we get results, other countries are more likely to follow our lead.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.

I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.

What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.

The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.

If I could control the behavior of fat guys I would make them ride mopeds more often.

I think a lot of American comedies tend to apologize for their bad behavior in the last 10 minutes of the movie.

One or two of these scoundrel statesmen should be shot once a-year, just to keep the others on their good behavior.

New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

Supernanny' was a format that was geared toward parents who had troublesome kids and didn't know how to cope with their behavior.

Peer pressure is a huge part of youth behavior, whether one grows up in Washington, D.C., or Cody, Wyo.

There's a lot of middle school behavior in Washington, D.C. I look at that and I say, 'I've seen that before,' it was just with a 14-year-old.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

Our constitution must be stronger to take action against any unnatural behavior at work place.

Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.

There is pomp, ceremony and romance as a behavior, and then there is love as a real thing that is felt between two people.

I got a lot of publicity, but it steamrolled. Event organizers weren't used to that kind of behavior, so later, they tightened the rules.

Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

Sometimes I will tweet things without an audience in mind at all, just because I want to say something that I don't feel I can say otherwise. Those tweets have a specific sense of desperation to them, because I write them when I feel like I don't have anyone else to talk to - as if Twitter is the only thing that will accept my insanely inappropriate thoughts without judgement.

A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.

When we fill our souls up with creativity, artistry and intelligence ...we have a better chance at avoiding the behavior that leads to destruction.

What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

I loved films of the '70s with those antihero protagonists who you don't know if you can get behind because their behavior is really questionable.

Positive reinforcement changes behavior for the better, while criticism stabilizes negative behaviors and blocks change.

And so, surpassing my own records for dangerous, reckless behavior, I ripped off Sonya's bracelet. "I'm Rose Hathaway.

We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.

As far as One Direction goes, and Mindless Behavior and all the other bands, I'm all for it, and if there's ever an opportunity to work with them, that'd be great.

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.

Under the guise of protecting us from ourselves, the right and the left are becoming ever more aggressive in regulating behavior.

Israel's [as well as our] enjoyment of the land is contingent on their behavior. Blessings or cruses lie before them; the choice is theirs.

I have to tell people that they are not responsible for their behavior. They're not creating it; they're not initiating anything. It's all found somewhere else. That's an awful lot to relinquish.

With animal behavior, they're all fine until you introduce some rogue element into the cage, and then they go crazy.

Taking action against a show because of one individual's behavior could put hundreds of jobs in jeopardy.

The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions.

A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.

I didn't realise how devastating my behavior could be - looking back, I'm very embarrassed. I just buckled under the anxiety.

What we now consider to be radical behavior was to early believers nothing more than a sincere attempt to live obediently.

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

I wholeheartedly agree that many media 'standards' can feel disingenuous or, in fact, be a cover for less-than-honest behavior.