I didn't want a guru or a kung fu master or a spiritual director. I didn't want to become a sorcerer or learn the zen of archery or meditate or align my chakras or uncover mast incarnations. . . I was after something else entirely, but it wasn't in the Yellow Pages or anywhere else that I could discover.
When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [. . . ] then,[. . . ] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.
Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.
When you have nothing left but God, you become aware that God is enough.
The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the father from temptation is a necessary condition of his continued social adjustment. The protections that are built up in the child against desire for the parent become the essential counterpart to the attitudes in the parent that protect the child.
Write while the heat is in you. The write who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. To achieve something you've never achieved before, you must become someone you've never been before.
Music has given me a career. But even if it doesn't become yours it teaches you confidence and allows you to express your creativity.
Our forefather Adam. . . used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been permitted to what was forbidden. It was in his power 'to be united to the Lord and become one spirit with God. . . ' (I Cor. 6:15). But Adam was deceived and chose to cut himself off voluntarily from God's happy end for him, preferring by his own free choice to be drawn down to the earth (cf. Gen. 2:17) than to become God by grace.
Honesty has become the second best policy with your spouse…discretions apply elsewhere
Let me say here and now that faith has never done me any good, only doubt. So that is what has become my testament.
I'm doing the next Batman. I have to become obsessed about what is offered to me.
I've been streaky throughout my career, but I've been trying to become a more consistent hitter.
New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.
As those states and others in the South and West become more diverse and educated, they will become harder for the Republican Party - in its current form - to win.
What would have become of Ohio State if I said everything? Half the team would have been suspended, and it would have been worse for everybody. I was like, 'Why don't I just take it?'
The camera can capture thought in a way that's quite surprising and shocking. You can become very simple and minimal in your work and communicate a lot with just a finger or an eyebrow, or a look, or a glance.
Today's worries may become tomorrow's priceless experiences.
We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible. Our qualities and deeds must burn and glow through the gloom oEurope until they become the veritable beacon oits salvation.
It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become.
The more you think about something, the more important it becomes, the more important it is to you, and the more important it will become to the audience.