Become Quotes

The non-comic, factual explanation is that I felt there was a myth about terrorist bombers being medieval-minded, 'fundamentalist, primitivist' people. There seems to be a lot of evidence to contradict that, especially in Britain. Some of the ideology behind what has become modern jihadism was socially progressive, certainly in Egypt, for example.

How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.

When you work with the same people for 10 years, they become family. Now when I see them - it might not be for nine months - but when I see them, it's great.

With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

My mother has become my daughter and I've become her guardian.

I've become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more.

I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.

I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

It's funny, when you become an actor and you're successful, they don't want to talk about acting any more. 'Hey let's talk about that stuff you were fired from.'

The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction.

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete.

Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.

The match has become quite unpredictable, but it still looks as though Arsenal will win the cup.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

The U.S. has already suffered a devastating attack on September 11, 2001, and may again become a target.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.

It's a hard job to become president.