Become Quotes

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.

I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.

Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.

Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.

In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.

I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.

Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become.

For the most part, the American film market has become very corporatised, even independent film to a degree, and because of the corporate management mentality, they want to take the safe way.

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are compounded Cities, Countries, Nations, etc.

Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.

My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don't have sex - ever. Now that the milk is free, we've both become lactose intolerant.

If any man be in Christ, he's a new preacher. The old things are passed away and all things become new.

The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.

I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if you continue to move forward in life, you can eventually become victorious, even if it's later in life.

Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.

If you become addicted and a junkie, well, that's your fault.

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a person as if he were where he could be and should be, and he will become what he could be and should be.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.

No matter what your religion, you should try to become a government program, for then you will have everlasting life.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.