Becoming Quotes - Page 25

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.

There has come a time when we can no longer remain silent but must speak up for our country which is being sold, abused, mined, depleted, drained, overworked, over-loved, its plants and animals becoming endangered and exterminated faster than we can renew them. Our country is silent, so we must speak and act to save it.

Football is becoming all about money. I would like to be in a lift with Gordon Brown and say, 'Please do something about football.'

By becoming a conscious choice-maker, you begin to generate actions that are evolutionary for you.

When there's trouble I don't like running, but I'm afraid I got more in common with who I was, than who I am becoming

I was not a natural. . . . This is the story of becoming . . . the Hard Way.

I saw money becoming more and more important everywhere. It's one of the most abstract and important inventions by human beings. At the same time, money is capable of extraordinary corruption in every kind of relationship.

The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history

I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

The fact that you can love something that you've lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.

An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming.

And no again: My studio is not a first or any step toward becoming any type of businessman on my part.

Our World has becoime a neighbourhood without becoming a brotherhood.

It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.

I was a bad student. I liked archaeology actually, I was interested in maybe becoming an archaeologist but I was such a bad student and had such bad grades that I wasn't going to get into any really good college so I fell back on acting.

Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of us. But that does not mean conformity. We are more than a melting pot, we are a kaleidoscope, where every turn of history refracts new light on the old promise.

Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.

What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts indeed, sometimes from no facts in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody's conscious control.

Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious.

Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.

The scientific evidence of how serious this climate crisis is becoming continues to amass week after week after week.

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.

It is right, or absolute right, that an individual should develop the powers that are in him. He may be said to have a "natural right" to become what he is capable of becoming. This is his only natural right.

Becoming one flesh is a broad concept involving the totality of life. The context of Genesis 2 and the teaching of the rest of the Bible about marriage demand this. At the same time, it is generally recognized that there is no place where this total sharing is more beautifully pictured or fully experienced than in the sexual relationship of the man and his wife.