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Become Quotes by Alain de Botton
- Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.
- On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become…
- There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about…
- The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
- It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our…
- The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new…
- Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
- I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So…
More Become Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. — Aristotle
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange