Becomes Quotes

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.

I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.

Sometimes, in certain stories, I think we know at the outset essentially what the tone is going to be, or it becomes important that we're groping toward some kind of story with a certain kind of tone that we both get somehow. But I don't think how that's combined with other elements is ever in any way overtly discussed.

The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

I think if you alienate people and just focus on your work then it just becomes lonely and it's not fun anymore.

It is definitely a challenge to play Nathan, but the more different he is from myself, the more interesting the character becomes for me.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

We shouldn't waste any more time in making sure that democracy is properly rooted in our political life and the supremacy of the law becomes an integral part of our state's structure.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.

He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.

Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect.

In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!

When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.

What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.

From here, it becomes an engineering problem; the engineer considers the ground motion that will occur and evaluates the requirements of the proposed structure in the light of the local foundation conditions.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

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.