Become Quotes

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.

The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles.

In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.

The simpler it is, the more beautiful it will become.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared.

You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.

There are, after all, between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand descendants of the Ball-family slaves. If I were to begin apologizing to every one of these families, it would quickly become a meaningless act.

There are not the same factual shows anymore - children's TV has become much more trivial.

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.

Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.

I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.

It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.

That save from Pele's header was the best I ever made. I didn't have any idea how famous it would become - to start with, I didn't even realise I'd made it at all.

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

I remember the mid-'50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the U.K.

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that a mere model will become a household name today.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.

We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement.

When Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, the balance sheet that reflects his economic stewardship could look very sickly indeed. He could become Labour's biggest liability, not its most marketable asset.

In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.

I was interested in maintaining the dignity and the hearts of the songs, letting them breathe and become what they are.

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

The real problem is clean up the bureaucracy that people have to deal with to become a citizen the right way. And we must truly secure the border. We can't leave it porous.

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.

I never thought I would become a television host, but I never thought anybody would pay me to just talk.

There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.

There had been talk about me getting involved with the new team in Houston. I don't know if it's something that will become a realization, but it would be something that I would love to do.

There are some things that are real, that you can see, that you can observe, like the moon, and grass and things. But for ideas to become real, they have to be played on your senses.

Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.

That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved.

The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.

You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or you'll become empty.

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I'm just like you. I'm a human being and I have my problems.

Because I tried to everything possible to become the best player in the world? Do I believe steroids and growth hormones helped me achieve that? Yes. Were there a lot of other players doing it that I had to compete against? Yes.

I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.