Become Quotes

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.

A lot of black people believe that Jews in this country have become white. They behave like white people rather than Jewish people.

The only way you do anything is to become really active. And the most effective way to get your message to your elected representatives is to make campaign contributions and develop relationships with them.

When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Well, I don't want to become a prognosticator.

When I don't understand things, I become passionate to understand.

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.

I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years.

The public has become my fairy godmother.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.

When I have a child, it will be probably become my whole life, so I don't want to have any regrets that I should have done more.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

You can become really pigeon-holed in this industry.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.

Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

The way I become friends with somebody is a slow process. You can't just spill your guts and tell them everything about yourself and expect them to listen and understand you because you don't know them. It's the same thing with a relationship.

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.

On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.