Become Quotes

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

I have finally become a husband and I am genuinely enjoying every moment of it.

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.

We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life.

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are.

Why, when I was a child, I didn't say, as most children do, that I was going to become an actress. I felt that I was an actress and no one could have convinced me that I wasn't!

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!

My goal is just to become a better comedian.

How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.

The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.

I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of my material; which apparently at the beginning - though I never really intended it to be - was man hating and now is just a bit more cuddly.

Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy.

I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.

The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become. The more enthusiastic we are, the more productive we become. The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become.

No player can become accustomed to New York's climate in August in a few days. The playing conditions, the courts in New York and France are very different.

I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.

All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious.