The willingness to trust others even when you know you may be taken advantage of is the cornerstone of becoming civilized. — Orlando Aloysius Battista Copy Share Image
It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best… — Katarina Witt Copy Share Image
I spent 20 years working for the trade union movement before becoming a Labour MP. I'm proud to have done both jobs. — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it… — Shania Twain Copy Share Image
I have no interest whatsoever in pursuing acting or becoming a mogul. I love writing and directing; I see those two jobs… — James Gray Copy Share Image
Slumbering in every human being lies an infinity of possibilities, which one must not arouse in vain. For it is terrible when… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
I decided to do philosophy at university, with a view to becoming a professional philosopher. Being a rather unstable character, at some… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
The gospel of the Savior is not simply about avoiding bad in our lives; it also is essentially about doing and becoming… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
I considered a lot of different jobs as a kid. I thought about becoming a priest or a lawyer. My father had… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
The political left, which holds itself as progressive, rational and fact-based, is becoming an enemy of academic inquiry, and a practitioner of… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I think the writing and the casting and all of that has so much to do with actors becoming their characters. I… — Scott Michael Foster Copy Share Image
It's really not possible for someone to imagine himself/herself as a subject in the process of becoming without having at the same… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle. I have a more vivid recollection… — John S. Mosby Copy Share Image
For me, the child is a veritable image of becoming, of possibility, poised to reach towards what is not yet, towards a… — Maxine Greene Copy Share Image
Who you're becoming is far more important than what you're doing, and yet, it is what you're doing that is determining who… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
It's crucial that people think that their lives have meaning and a purpose and that there's a reward or some sort of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I went from being a kid who loved to perform magic tricks to becoming the world's most notorious hacker, feared by corporations… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
The domestic war against "terrorists" [code for young protesters] provides new opportunities for major defense contractors and corporations who are becoming more… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist. — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
We've all heard stories of lottery winners, rock stars, heirs and heiresses, and professional athletes becoming millionaire morons who wake up rich… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Just so [becoming a chef ] that I could support my art habit. You know? I mean, this is - this is… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
When becoming disappears, all the smoke of becoming disappears, there is the flame of being, and that very flame is celebration. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
This use of advertising - to add a subjective value to the product - becomes increasingly important as the trends in our… — James Webb Young Copy Share Image
[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
How could God give me a dream, a dream of going to Notre Dame, a dream of becoming somebody, and I'm a… — Rudy Ruettiger Copy Share Image
We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I want my movies to play in movie theaters. While festivals can fulfill a part of that, there's nothing like getting a… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Films are not meant to be watched only by fans but by everyone. Fans are those who like what we do. When… — Mohanlal Copy Share Image
Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Becoming a mother changed everything for me. It's the single most important role to me, and as a mom I'm prepared to… — Dorit Kemsley Copy Share Image
A lot of times, adults confuse growing up or becoming more mature with a sense of seriousness, a sense of boringness, a… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
Rap, to me, is communal. It's something you do with your friends. So becoming a member of a group was the dream. — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
I think it's becoming cool to have mental toughness or to meditate. It's a thing, but I don't think people really understand… — Jaylen Brown Copy Share Image
I embraced, I think, the process of becoming No. 1 of the world, which was long and difficult, but it's sweeter in… — Novak Djokovic Copy Share Image
When the students in the South, the blacks, started demonstrating, that was the beginning of the time of students becoming a social… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image