Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emily Berrington

Little girls as children, I think, are expected to behave better. If a boy's naughty at school, he's a little bit cheeky and mischievous. If a girl's naughty, she's trouble.

Barton Gellman

For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for and behave in the initial chaos of a mass-casualty event.

At a private gift exchange ceremony, one journalist broke all ground rules, behaved rudely, and was escorted out of the private meeting.

Everybody has their own way, ... But if I would behave like that is another question.

It's a little funny for me, because I'm part Jamaican as well, and I am very familiar with the Jamaican temper - sadly this is what can happen if it is not curtailed. However, as an African-American fashion designer, this is the woman that a great deal of people look up to, and for her to behave like this is simply unacceptable. This is my little way of saying, 'Naomi, please get help!

It's not unusual that movers and shakers, important people, are involved in lots of different organizations. The conflict of interest occurs whenever you are in one role and you let one of your secondary roles materially influence how you behave in that situation.

Mark Richt

I'm real excited about this class, mainly because of the numbers. We really covered every major position other than the kickers. If these guys unite as a team, behave like they should and work hard like they should, we should be something special three or four years down the road.

Mark Twain

Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

Everyone can relax. I will behave myself at night.

No matter what, you want to be courteous. Of course, most employers want to discourage abusing sick days. It's important to remember that it's called work. It's not called f-u-n. It's nice to be able to merge the two, but the bottom line is, you're getting paid to work. So, you need to behave in a professional manner. Familiarize yourself with your company's sick-day policy and follow it.

New Zealand investors behave like a bunch of sheep,

I wanted to organize the students so they would represent the school in a good light and behave themselves at the games.

They behaved like any other kids when they were outside playing.

They could come up with no specific reason for why he would behave this way, nor why he ended up on that lane in Lancaster County,

Ned Rorem

The twelve-toners behave as if music should be seen and not heard

They are just a very solid team. You've got to tip your hat to the players, to their coaches. They're very well coached and well behaved on the floor.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

Alice Temperley

I don't think many people would think I'm a designer. I behave in a different way. I'd get knocked down and cut to pieces if I went home and flounced about; this industry is known for the flounciness, but I've got my feet on the ground.

Fires may behave differently because homes today typically contain larger quantities and different types of materials than before. This means you need as much early warning as possible to evacuate safely. Properly installed and maintained smoke alarms remain the most effective way to protect you and your family from the risk of fire.

Brooke Elliott

Sometimes someone that is the 'villain' in your life, when you look deeper and you think of what their issues are and why they behave like that and where they came from - they become less of a villain and more of someone that you can understand.

Al Sharpton

When you loot or behave violently, you give grounds to those that try to justify illegal police abuse. You become the poster child for them to say, 'See, we have no choice but to shoot and kill, or use a chokehold, because just look at the way they behave.'

Amy Bloom

Keep your mouth shut and see what's happening around you. Don't finish people's sentences for them. Don't just hear what they say, but also how they behave while they're saying it. That was great training for writing.

Antony Beevor

It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question is how would we have behaved in the face of danger and when forced to make major moral choices.

Abba Eban

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.

Buzz Osborne

I want to travel around the country and make my living playing music. I also try to behave in a way that I would appreciate as a music fan. That's how we conduct ourselves, be it in writing music or playing it live.

We've never seen how this index behaves in a recovery; we've never seen it in anything but a downturn. It doesn't surprise me that we'd get record levels, now that manufacturing is recovering.

This vigilantism demonstrates the utter breakdown of the government. These private security forces have behaved brutally, with impunity, in Iraq. To have them now on the streets of New Orleans is frightening and possibly illegal.

Sathya Baba

What is our duty? To behave properly. That is enough.

You have to behave prudently as an investor. If you invest in company stock, do it with your eyes wide open.

George Carman

He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.

Alan Keyes

Christ would not vote for Barack Obama, because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved.

Bob Ainsworth

When I was first elected to parliament 18 years ago, one of the many things that struck me and that I still feel now is how the Labour Party, the party of collective action, can, at MP level and above, behave in such an individualistic way.

Hanan Ashrawi

We cannot superimpose on any conflict very simple, borrowed and ready-made solutions ... The Americans constructed a simplistic paradigm for our peace process. And they expected everybody to think like Americans, to behave like Americans.