Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Souter

Every defendant knows, if endowed with the mental competence for criminal responsibility, that the life he will take by his homicidal behavior is that of a unique person, like himself, and that the person to be killed probably has close associates, 'survivors,' who will suffer harms and deprivations from the victim's death.

We have made very clear to the government of Sudan that that kind of future behavior is just unacceptable." ()

Wen Jiabao

We must change the function of government. We must build up a government with regulated behavior and harmonious operations -- and which is fair, transparent, clean and efficient.

When we look at behavior patterns of most Americans, we're really doing minor things to make a difference. There's not a lot of difference, in many ways, from evangelicals and the public at large.

Undesirable behaviors can be changed positively by using behavior modification.

First and foremost, this decision shows this type of behavior will not be tolerated.

Eknath Easwaran

It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.

When J&J lowered the price and came in at $63 a share, it was probably closer to what is the real worth of Guidant. The only thing I can say is this behavior, certainly the behavior of Boston Scientific, is not rational here. I just think they are playing a very dangerous game.

I think if you study people in the street today, you do sometimes feel that they have taken their behavior and their language from things that they have seen rather than read - from soap operas and movies and so on.

Danny Bonaduce

My behavior is humiliating.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

The governor doesn't believe that people should be rewarded for illegal behavior. But the resolution is unnecessary.

We see this as an extremely serious allegation of unacceptable behavior,

The government has a legitimate interest in helping preserve not only public health, but public morals as well. The mere fact that this behavior occurs in private doesn't mean the public doesn't have a stake in these behaviors.

George Stephanopoulos

For the president to resign now would be wrong. President Clinton may have debased himself with his behavior, but we shouldn't debase the office with an impulsive overreaction.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon trading, for example. Some have changed the world, and others failed miserably.

Karrine Steffans

We have to change our behavior, ... We are the mother, the first teacher, and we have to start our own revolution. We need to speak up and say we don't like this music, we don't want to wear these clothes, and we need to educate ourselves and stop letting the men get all that airtime.

We have seen similar behavior in the past.

Graham Alexander

This shows that behavior in snakes is more complex than we previously thought.

When you got over $3, you did see behavior change. That does seem to be the magic number, $3 to $3.50.

Wendy Wright

The recommendation will not rescue patients and neither does it promote healthy behavior. Instead, they have been promoting programs that encourage riskier activities.

There has never, never been an instance found where any sort of anti-competitive behavior led to price increases in this industry,

Michael Eisner

There has been (talk on Wall Street) that major media companies are out of favor. I have seen this chicken-little behavior before, ... I have worked in the industry for four decades. At least once a decade they fall out of favor, but each time they emerge stronger than ever. This is for cyclical economic reasons.

We think their behavior is outrageous for normal business commerce. Essentially they have refused to negotiate with us.

We wake up at 3 and 4 in the morning to move the trains in this town. That's not the behavior of thugs and selfish people.

Paul Volcker

We have found no corruption by the secretary general, ... his behavior has not been exonerated by any stretch of the imagination.

We wouldn't interfere with infants or toddlers unless their behavior interfered with functioning, for example, if they were really aggressive. Most can do fine until ... they're around other children.