Become Quotes

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.

But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number of people, sometimes we have to become salesmen for what we believe, and part of being a salesman is being effective.

I am still seeking to become firmly established as an actor.

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

Now we are in a situation in which for a significant part of the industrial world too much could become a danger, especially too much of the things which are really not good for us in such large quantities.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

When you become an instrument in God's hands as He transfers someone from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of His Son, you make a difference in the person's eternal destiny. Not only that, but Satan also receives a devastating blow.

The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place.

Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.

What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is, while the creative community admittedly leans left, Hollywood has become a corporate town.

If you don't want to have to kill or capture every bad guy in the country, you have to reintegrate those who are willing to be reconciled and become part of the solution instead of a continued part of the problem. And then, above all, the resources.

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

We can all become activists and raise questions.

It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

It's not a case of 'look at me in my car'; it's more, 'look at the car'. I like the idea of other people enjoying them, because everything has become a bit faceless and nobody likes the motor car any more.

Maybe I'll just become a cartoon character because there's nothing left for me to do in an R-rated comedy.

If someone believes they are limited by their gender, race or background, they will become more limited.

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government.

I never worked in a coffee shop and I don't drink coffee, so I never thought I would become a coffee pusher on TV.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.