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Become Quotes by Wendell Berry
- Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that we have become…
- As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening,…
- The surface of the quieted river, as I think now, is like a window looking into another world that is like this one except that…
- A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not…
- The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away.
- Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts,…
- We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner…
- True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly…
- To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us…
- When humans act like animals, they become the most dangerous of animals to themselves and other humans, and this is because of another critical difference…
- Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth;…
- Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money.…
- Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and…
- If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see how even divine…
- We weren't allowing our hopes to become expectations. Expectations are tempting, pleasant, maybe necessary. They are scary too, once you have had some experience. They…
- In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is…
- No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small…
- I finally knew... why Christ's prayer in the garden could not be granted. He had been seeded and birthed into human flesh. He was one…
- Our most serious problem, perhaps, is that we have become a nation of fantasists. We believe, apparently, in the infinite availability of finite resources.
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