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Become Quotes by John Berger
- Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
- Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
- Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is…
- One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are…
- To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked…
- Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear…
- The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the…
- Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing…
- Cow and horse dung, as muckgoes, are relatively agreeable. You can even become nostalgic about them. They smell of fermented grain, and on the far…
More Become Quotes
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- We tend to become what the most important person in our life thinks we will become. Think the best, believe the best,… — John C. Maxwell
- Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis… — Andre Agassi
- Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. — Chet Atkins
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong