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behave QUOTES

1 " The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them. "

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2 " Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it. "

― W. Somerset Maugham , Of Human Bondage

3 " Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. Time - when pursued like a bandit - will behave like one, always remaining one county or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping out the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you. At some point you have to stop because it won't. You have to admit that you can't catch it. That you're not supposed to catch it. At some point, you gotta let go and sit still and allow contentment to come to you. "

― Elizabeth Gilbert

4 " Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. "

― Beatrix Potter

5 " LAW 38
Think As You Like But Behave Like Others

If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox ways, people will think that you only want attention and that you look down upon them. They will find a way to punish you for making them feel inferior. It is far safer to blend in and nurture the common touch. Share your originality only with tolerant friends and those who are sure to appreciate your uniqueness. "

― Robert Greene , The 48 Laws of Power

6 " If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of ‘I could have, I should have’. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete. "

― Mitch Albom , Have a Little Faith: a True Story

7 " Now, you two – this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've – you've blown up a toilet or –" " Blown up a toilet? We've never blown up a toilet." " Great idea though, thanks, Mum. "

8 " Well,” Tessa said, sighting along the line of the knife, “you behave as if you dislike me. In fact, you behave as if you dislike us all.”
“I don’t,” Gabriel said. “I just dislike him.” He pointed at Will.
“Dear me,” said Will, and he took another bite of his apple. “Is it because I’m better-looking than you? "

― Cassandra Clare , Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices, #2)

9 " If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be ... "

― Sophie Kinsella , Shopaholic Takes Manhattan (Shopaholic, #2)

10 " What I'm expecting is for you to behave like the gentleman I always thought you were. "

― Wendelin Van Draanen , Flipped

11 " My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself. "

― J.K. Rowling , Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)

12 " The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain. "

― Oscar Wilde , The Importance of Being Earnest

13 " He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being. "

― Jean-Paul Sartre

14 " If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave. "

― Fulton J. Sheen

15 " After some cogitation, it is difficult not to agree with Herman Bondi (1919 - 2005), who in his book 'Relativity and Common Sense' says:
... The surprising thing, surely, is that molecules in a gas behave so much as billiard balls, not that electrons behave so little like billiard balls. "

― Felix Alba-Juez , E=mc^2: The Most Famous Equation in History... and its Folklore (Relativity free of Folklore #1)

16 " I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things.

For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities.

But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds? "

― Kij Johnson , The Fox Woman (Love/War/Death, #1)

17 " With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion. "

― Steven Weinberg

18 " The spirit of bondage works by fear for the slave fears the rod: but love cries, Abba, Father; it disposes us to go to God, and behave ourselves towards God as children; and it gives us clear evidence of our union to God as His children, and so casts out fear. So that it appears that the witness of the Spirit the apostle speaks of, is far from being any whisper, or immediate suggestion or revelation; but that gracious holy effect of the Spirit of God in the hearts of the saints, the disposition and temper of children, appearing in sweet childlike love to God, which casts out fear or a spirit of a slave. "

― Jonathan Edwards , The Religious Affections

19 " Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter, as I would hope is true for all adults, thought I know from bitter experience that such is not often the case. To act in a manner designed to catapult you into heaven would seem transparent to a god, any god,for if ones heart is not in allignment with the creator of that heaven, then... what is the point? "

― , The Ghost King (Forgotten Realms: Transitions, #3; Legend of Drizzt, #19)

20 " If there was a controlling power outside the universe, it could not show itself to us as one of the facts inside the universe -no more than the architect of a house could actually be a wall or staircase or fireplace in that house. The only way in which we could expect it to show itself would be inside us as an influence or a command trying to get us to behave in a certain way. And that's just what we do find inside us. "

― C.S. Lewis , The Case for Christianity