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«All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.»
Author: Elizabeth Bishop
(Poet, Writer)
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Life,
Living
| Keywords:
behaved, continents, sandpiper, very much like
«As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly»
«Neither of us, me nor Dennis, is cavalier about a breakup. We both behaved very honorably.»
«Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. ROLLING IN THE MUCK IS NOT THE BEST WAY OF GETTING CLEAN.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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«I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.»
«Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.»
«For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; / Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you: / Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.»
«Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.»
«I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.»
«A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. On Other Peoples Expectations: The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
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