The party of ideas has become the party of Beavis and Butthead.
What has become clear from the science is that we cannot burn all of the fossil fuels without creating a very different planet.
If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by overfishing; or if we were to lose some of our favorite beaches to overbuilding and pollution, then how would we feel? It's become a case of not knowing what you've got until it's gone.
Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
The truth is, anybody that becomes famous is an ass for a year and a half. You've got to give them a year and a half, two years. They are getting so much smoke blown, and their whole world gets so turned upside down, their responses become distorted. I give everybody a year or two to pull it together because, when it first happens, I know how it is.
Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you to do what worked for the last guy. That's always been something I've had to deal with.
My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.
One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.
Act the part and you will become the part.
Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.
As I visualize the new, I become dissatisfied with the old.
God intends that everyone who has embraced the gospel become a part of the great enterprise of spreading the gospel.
. . . . a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life.
Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?
People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.
This wasn't because he liked me, I was sure. It had more to do with him banking on what we of wedding age had all become witnesses to-how during these wedding weekends, single women, feeling a little lonely, maybe, or just feeling a little too far from being the bride, found themselves loosening their own rules, opting to be more flexible, more quickly.
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don't want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we're too religious, we won't be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.