An innocent bird is not innocent from the insect's point of view! Only man can attain the rank of innocence through becoming a peaceful vegetarian!
Perhaps I wasn't going crazy after all. Perhaps I was just becoming a writer.
If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.
I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.
To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.
No one wants to live forever if it means becoming increasingly decrepit.
Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.
If you show me who you are being influenced by I will show you what you are becoming.
ONE OF MY girlfriends was getting married. This was becoming an annoying pattern.
One of the best ways of becoming an effective parent—or, for that matter, an effective human being—is to understand the perceptions of other people, to be able to “get into their world.
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.
When you're at your best, you're analyzing yourself and becoming increasingly isolated from a broader narrative.
I want to show you something,” I say. What?” He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment I’m wishing so hard that I am that napkin that I can almost feel myself changing, becoming thin and papery and white. “Cal?” I sit back and feel myself blushing, feel it from the tips of my toes all the way to the heat at the backs of my ears.
. . if you dread tomorrow, it's because you don't know how to build the present, you tell yourself you can deal with it tomorrow, and it's a lost cause anyway because tomorrow always ends up becoming today, don't you see?
Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.
The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.
I paint a little and keep sketchbooks because it has the effect of preventing me becoming lazy about looking. The subject could be anything.
I think there are some things. . . that may even be distorted in the practice, such as some affirmative action programs becoming quota systems. And I'm old enough to remember when quotas existed in the United States for the purpose of discrimination, and I don't want to see that happen again.
The 'well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the 'well-amused audience'.
YouTube is becoming much more than an entertainment destination.
