One Becomes Quotes
130 One Becomes quotes by 106 unique authors
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We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are…
— Martha Graham
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard…
— Anna Louise Strong
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There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
— Emile Zola
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among plants, an animal…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
— Gilles Deleuze
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I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living,…
— Martha Graham
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Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by the academic specialists.…
— Wendell Berry
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In contrast to the institutions of the world, which teach us to KNOW something, the gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to BECOME something...The gospel…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; living…
— Henry Miller
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Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever…
— John Berger
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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
— Oscar Wilde
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I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is…
— Oscar Wilde
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To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and…
— Christopher Hitchens
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It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole…
— Ram Dass
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One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.
— Alexandre Dumas-fils
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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.…
— Oscar Wilde
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The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid
— Oscar Wilde
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Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive…
— Brandon Sanderson
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The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.
— Lawrence Durrell
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One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.
— Marcel Proust
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Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded…
— Neil Gaiman
Who Wrote These One Becomes Quotes
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