Becomes Quotes

It becomes an emperor to die standing.

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.

Once colon cancer becomes symptomatic, nine times out of ten it is too late.

We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads. Anybody who's lived in countries with socialized health care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue.

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

You know, it takes a while to get used to - it's a whole group of people with all these ideas and after you sort of navigate your way through the first few episodes it becomes collaborative and creative.

When you enjoy what you do, work becomes play.

When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

The more confident one becomes, the less one needs all people to be the same.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.

When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going to fully appreciate what this reform is if we pass it and implement it and it becomes not a caricature but a reality, and I still believe that. So I think it will be easier to sell it moving forward than it was to this point.

Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

That's one of the problems with making music your business, it becomes a business. You're no longer just this kid who is a fan and going to see every show. I've been in a bar every night for the last 15 years. Going to see bands for me is work.

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system finds its statement in another proposition in the same system.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.