Becoming Quotes - page 2

I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story. (Lionel Shriver)
Life, is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming. View quote
Myrna Loy
I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does sir, that gets sent down for indecent behaviour. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming. View quote
William James
Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. View quote
J. G. Ballard
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice. View quote
José Rizal
Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries. View quote
Norman Borlaug
It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without becoming soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness. View quote
Edward Gibbon
Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. View quote
John Ruskin
I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis. (Boris Johnson)
There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy. View quote
Henry Miller
I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one. View quote
Christopher Plummer
I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist. View quote
Billy Joel
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies. View quote
George W. Bush
Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors. Let them boldly assert the cause of Christ in an age when so many, who bear the name of Christians, are ashamed of Him: and let them consider as devolved on Them the important duty of suspending for a while the fall of their country, and, perhaps, of performing a still more extensive service to society at large; not by busy interference in politics, in which it cannot but be confessed there is much uncertainty; but rather by that sure and radical benefit of restoring the influence of Religion, and of raising the standard of morality. View quote
William Wilberforce
Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgastic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery. View quote
Betty Friedan
Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave. View quote
Octavia Butler
Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it. View quote
Eudora Welty
The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people. View quote
Ben Hecht
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got. (Walter Cronkite)
I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel. View quote
Bertrand Russell
When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self. View quote
Confucius
Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end. View quote
Annie Besant
The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. View quote
Swami Vivekananda