Famous Quotes & Sayings

My purpose at the hospital is to create behavior change for the better.

Male-centered cultures where sexual behavior is more oriented toward procreation tend to discount the importance of sexual pleasure for women.

IMHO looters should be shot. Nothing allows for that sort of behavior. How would you feel if it was your property being looted. Horrible I bet.

We now have reason to believe our daughter had engaged in this behavior for at least a year, maybe too.

Emily Dickinson

The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.

The assumption, I guess, that propels this is that once you randomly test students, they'll just stop experimenting. But behavior is really complex. It doesn't always work that simply.

Michael Eisner

I would hope that whatever they end up doing with Microsoft doesn't leave them in a way that they can't continue being that way, ... Have they done some things wrong? Has their behavior been a little aggressive? I guess it has and I guess there should be some retribution for that, but I wouldn't want to bring the whole company down on its knees.

Microsoft is repeatedly engaging in clearly illegal, anti-competitive behavior because the benefits of extinguishing competition clearly outweigh the costs.

Looking at his file, there have been no behavior problems. All he has to do is stop at the halfway house in Newark sometime on Friday to check out, and he's free to go.

Brian Billick

Look, Fish, ... the only criminal behavior Kyle is capable of is quarterbacking. So, he is what we would call a 'hardened criminal.'

Richard Boucher

We do look forward to a step-by-step process where we can see changes in North Korean behavior and where we can improve the relationship with North Korea,

Jim Thompson

We're definitely making progress. Just the reaction to that guy is progress. Ten years ago his behavior wouldn't have even been noticed.

We expect a great deal from our students. To expect that our students would obey the criminal code is just a minimal standard. We don't expect behavior or performance that's just minimal.

Lawrence Durrell

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it

Kofi Annan

We must not promise too much or raise expectations higher than are justified by the will of governments to act, but we must do whatever we can to raise the standards of international behavior and responsibility. I think we can only hope to succeed in that if we have a very clear idea of what was wrong up to now.

We feel for the victims of any crash. But the emphasis really needs to be on unsafe driving behavior.

We'll be looking at usage behavior, how much revenue it brings in and how much it costs. We're committed to figuring out electronic behavior, though we're still figuring out in what exact form.

We have to teach professional behavior. No one is born knowing it.

We don't encourage that kind of behavior. We don't ignore that kind of behavior. It's important to remember these students will face sanctions on campus.

Carly Fiorina

When you don't respond to bad behavior, you get more of it.

Carly Fiorina

Leadership Is Performance. You Have To Be Conscious Of Your Behavior, Because Everyone Else Is.

C. Everett Koop

The right of smokers to smoke ends where their behavior affects the health and well-being of others.

Errol Morris

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.

Jean de La Fontaine

We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.

Jesse Ventura

In the United States, if you buy a property and you're a good citizen, and you improve that property, what do they do to you? They tax you more. So they penalize you for good behavior.

Great magicians are often great marketers. They understand consumer behavior -- how to influence people to look in one direction and not another; and how to communicate with people one-on-one in setting up a trick and explaining what's about to happen.

Alan Greenspan

For the moment, the broadly unanticipated behavior of world bond markets remains a conundrum .

For the people not mandated by the law we would keep them in the program for 60 to 90 days, and then we would evaluate at that time to see if their behavior that may have caused them to be on this program.

If he is saying, 'The prison conditions made me a killer,' ... we can say, 'No. In fact, you exhibited the same behavior before.'

If I have a question about women and their behavior or attitudes, I always double check things with Lucy.

I don't take excuses for homework or classroom behavior.

Howard Dean

I believe Iowa should be first. But I think they're going to have to change their process to prohibit that kind of behavior inside the caucuses, because if that were to continue, I wouldn't do it again.

Anne Murray

I came to believe...that it is vital to transform the world by changing the way people treat each other, and by modeling that kind of changed behavior ourselves.