Becomes Quotes

Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.

If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.

I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge impact on your life and your dynamic and everything - I mean, that's huge. It affects how much you have a break from just concentrating on just one other person in your life. It becomes so myopic that way, and more intense, probably.

Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

As more information becomes available, and the magnitude of the storm's impact becomes even more apparent, it becomes clear that this recovery will be lengthy.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

When you're 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that the fantasy is reality. I think when you have a giant crush when you're in fifth grade, it becomes your whole world. It's like being underwater; everything is different.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.

Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

Every president needs to deal with the permanent government of the country, and the permanent government of the country is Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats and the questions becomes what is the relationship between that president and Wall Street.

Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.

Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.