Becomes Quotes

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry.

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.

The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

The moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me.

We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring.

San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening.

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace.

Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It's so different but it's so similar to the United States, to Miami. It's like a doppelgaenger. It's the mirror image. And I have no doubt, that once Cuba becomes democratic, that it will be the favorite tourist destination for Americans.

Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Once a place becomes special, it's no longer special.

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Well, you sort of get out of the pool room, you get out of the Marine Corps, you get out and read some literature, you become involved with people who also want to know and are ready to share some ideas about literature and thoughts, and it becomes nourished that way.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.