Become Quotes

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not.

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism.

I wanted to become a model and an actress.

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.

Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about.

Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems.

I just decided I wanted to become someone else... So I became someone else.

Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.

There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

I'm interested in authentic experience and the essence of that creative place, and where those myths begin and where they become real on any level.

Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it.

I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.

I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.

The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

One does not become a guru by accident.

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless.

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form.

Whenever there is a big game and people don't think I can do it, I always play my hardest, and now it has become a part of me.