Becomes Quotes

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When the president of the United States flicks the switch to light up the Christmas tree on the White House lawn, that house ceases to… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture. — Salman Rushdie
For too much rest becomes a pain. — Homer
We have to teach our boys the rules of equality and respect, so that as they grow up gender equality becomes a natural way of… — Beyonce Knowles
A heart given to God loses none of its natural tenderness; on the contrary, the more pure and divine it becomes, the more such tenderness… — Therese of Lisieux
The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to… — Mahatma Gandhi
Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it. — Rene Magritte
What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground… — E. V. Lucas
If you tell the truth, it becomes a part of your past. If you lie, it becomes a part of your future. — John Spence
The minute you stop expecting life to be simple, fair and easy... it becomes simple, fair and easy. — John Spence
Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing… — Susan Sontag
The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant. — Orison S. Marden
Everybody is looking with his own world of desires, expectations, passions, lust, greed, anger. There are a thousand and one things standing between you and… — Rajneesh
Egolessness is contentment. Egoless, you don't expect anything, and just a small child smiles at you, but it is so beautiful. What else could you… — Rajneesh
In your 50s, time becomes precious and must not be wasted. Every minute is an excellent opportunity for a good nap. Happy 50th birthday! — Bill Cosby
I'm sorry to inform you that your 50 year warranty has expired on your back, knees, and memory. Luckily your lifetime warranty on your heart… — Kin Hubbard
Be respectful to others as you grow... If we lack respect for one group, then there is a tendency for that attitude to spread. It… — Walter Annenberg
There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely… — Edward Hoagland
We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if… — Teju Cole
If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic. — Diane Arbus
Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again, embrace a pine… — Edward Abbey
I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone… — Edward Abbey
The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist. — Edward Abbey
Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave… — Edmund Burke
Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess. — Thomas Paine

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