When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.
Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important...
Some people never learn, no matter how much their heads hurt in the morning.
It's not the intensity of pain, but the level of stupidity that makes you do things you regret.
Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.
I understand that you are under a lot of pressure and that it's hard being a bride. That is all well and good. But it does not, ever, entitle you to be rude, selfish, uncaring, and generally obnoxious...
Being like them doesn't help them. Being like them just encourages them to continue being the way they are.
We talk what we think but do what we believe.
Hard to trust honesty of inconsistent person.
No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor.
Children are like clay in the hands of teachers. Like a sculptor we can chisel and carve their personalities with our behavior.
Your goodness must have some edge to it - - else it is none.
Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact.
if you tease a dog, it bites.
So, on the whole, I'd have to say that no, people don't change, but they CAN learn to behave differently. I want to believe otherwise. If you have an argument that says I'm wrong, I'd be glad to hear...
It turned out that the watchdogs could be trained, particularly if you only told them to do things they were going to do anyway. «Come, Alvin. Good boy. Now, poop. Excellent.»
The best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour
Habits are the invisible architecture of daily life. We repeat about 40 percent of our behavior almost daily, so our habits shape our existence, and our future. If we change our habits, we change our...
A cat understands how to be pleasant in the morning. He doesn't talk.
what sinks of iniquity these little villages can be
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...