Becoming Quotes - Page 35

Please, do not leave me, Will Henry. I would not survive it. You were nearly right. What Mr. Kendall was, I am always on the brink of becoming. And you - I do not pretend to know how or even why - but you pull me back from the precipice. You are the one... You are the one thing that keeps me Human.

That sounded about as likely as Apophis and Ra becoming Facebook buddies, but I decided not to say anything.

To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of psychopathology. Probably we have here but a highly sophisticated expression of the doctrine that ideals are hallucination and that the only normal, sane person is the healthy extrovert, making instant, instinctive adjustments to the stimuli of the material world.

I believe that a nation that allows music to be expendable is in danger of becoming expendable itself.

That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre.

The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.

I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

Our souls are evolving towards becoming the one. That's what we're doing and we're using our incarnations as teaching devices.

Becoming a victim is your choice.

I'm sure that my father becoming seriously ill when I was 14 had a lot to do with my going from chubby to fat.

About half of the loyalists who left the United States ended up going north to Canada, settling in the province of Nova Scotia and also becoming pioneering settlers in the province of New Brunswick.

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

There are so many things I'd like to do. Like becoming a parent. To me that is the next natural progression in life.

You know what they say about bold spacemen never becoming old spacemen.

Knowledge is information that changes something or somebody - either by becoming grounds for actions, or by making an individual (or an institution) capable of different or more effective action.

Before becoming an Australian you will be asked to subscribe to certain values. If you have strong objections to those values, don't come to Australia.

But everything had changed, and I was becoming more and more of who I really was, and less of this person I had thought I wanted to be.

By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential.

It's really not possible for someone to imagine himself/herself as a subject in the process of becoming without having at the same time a disposition for change. And change of which she/he is not merely the victim but the subject.

We don't want insurance companies becoming monopolies looking for favoritism in a cronyistic way at Washington. We want health insurers, hospitals, doctors, all providers of health care benefits competing against each other for our business as consumers.

The Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality.

In a world of increasing grey areas, we are becoming more and more entrenched in black and white positions.

I became as much of a believer as I was capable of becoming.

Becoming active is the key remedy for depression.

Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts.