Becomes Quotes

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Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the… — Khalil Gibran
When a large number of organs of the press come to advance along the same track, their influence becomes almost irresistible in the long term,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent… — Thomas Jefferson
[A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible. — Thomas Jefferson
Finance that only talks to itself & deals with each other becomes socially useless — Mark Carney
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human.… — Vaclav Havel
Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they… — Nicolas Chamfort
If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of… — William E. Gladstone
Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team. — John C. Maxwell
I find on songwriting, I really have to work at making sure I'm not imitating myself. You know? Which happens to all of us. When… — Andy Wilkinson
That's another way of writing a song, of course. Just talking to somebody that ain't there. That's the best way. That's the truest way. Then… — Bob Dylan
Songwriting becomes a conscious attempt to delve into the unconscious. Even those writers who scoff at the concept of a spiritual source for their songs… — Paul Zollo
My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable. ...so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song. — Kristian Bush
But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it… — James Taylor
In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth… — Alfred North Whitehead
The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think… — A. R. Rahman
I can't describe the feeling when I go down - it's down down down and there's never going to be an up again. And whatever… — John Marsden
Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it… — Andrew Solomon
In five years' time at this pace global warming becomes irreversible. — Yosef Abramowitz
But even more: all at once the Jew also becomes liberal and begins to rave about the necessary progress of mankind. — Adolf Hitler
It is unfortunate that we should find ourselves at this time the only disorganized group. Others have had the advantage of organization for centuries, so… — Marcus Garvey
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled… — Ernest Newman
Every time one person chooses a new way to respond to the challenges of life, each time an individual chooses a new option, that person… — Gregg Braden
What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic. — Susan Sontag

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