Becoming Quotes - Page 36

Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.

Whatever you remember, or feel, you need to know that whatever they were they did one worthwhile thing in their miserable lives. And that was you. Whatever they were, they couldn't destroy that. They couldn't stop you from becoming.

Why did you say you believed me ?" In profile, he could see both the young woman she was becoming and the little girl he remembered. "Because I trust you.

In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming.

We make fun of those we're most scared of becoming.

This is a dishonest administration, because it is becoming clear that the unemployment statistics of the [Barack] Obama administration are not believable.

Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing.

American magazines are becoming very patriotic beyond belief to the point that I can't live there any more.

There were some particular themes that I knew I wanted to hit, and when I got deeper into the project I found that it was becoming serious in and on its own. By the end, it's not very funny at all. I think, now, that part of the power of the book is that the jokes are kind of sparkly distractions.

The America we all know has been a story of the many becoming one, uniting to preserve liberty, uniting to build the greatest economy in the world, uniting to save the world from unspeakable darkness.

She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself

I do increasingly feel like becoming a better writer is about trying to find new ways to solve the same problems over and over again, and I'll maybe be a good writer after I have solved the same problem ten million times.

I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being treated for his illness and, as a result, becoming more and more ill.

Theres so much to becoming a woman.

We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants.

You don't have to be afraid, even death itself does not have power. In Christ, everything is becoming new, everything is different.

When I think of Spirit, I think of that mysterious force that pulls us into being, into becoming, into love. That can get political rather quickly.

Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.

Early in my career as a domme, I both admired and feared becoming one of those career dommes. I saw, in myself, and in some other women in that industry, the way that sex work could eclipse the other parts of your personality, the way that I started to feel as if I wasn't qualified to do anything else. I had always known that I wanted to be a writer, and I stopped writing for a time while I was domming; the experience subsumed my other interests, and it scared me. Now, however, I have nothing but admiration for them.

Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.

As soon as it is seen, the extraordinary starts becoming ordinary!

But if that was really true, why in the name of all that is holy would anyone have ever liked Nikki in the first place? I was becoming more and more convinced she was a cross between Heidi Montag and Hitler.

That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'

We're becoming slaves to our social networks - and that's not a bad thing. You like your favorite networks, so do you friends, and pretty soon you have market winners.

Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.