It becomes an emperor to die standing.

Man’s liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

This life is not man’s own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine ‘plot.’

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change… you will change.

Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it’s a very safe place.

Life becomes inspiring, not in spite of the problems and the hard hits, but because of them.

Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson’s Column – pigeons dump on you because you’re there.

Christianity becomes just a set of things you believe in. It’s almost an intellectual kind of abstract issue.

Everything that’s realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.

The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and it’s only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.

Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.

Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business.

The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Sometimes you become a character, and sometimes the character becomes you.

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.

I need to feel like the work I’m doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get...

What’s nice about what we have is when you enter the set, the world of film, it becomes this real cocoon, very different from all the publicity. That’s the fun part.

I’ll have periods when I write and periods when I don’t. But you don’t want it to become a discipline, really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore, and that’s no good. To...

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.

When you do a slasher film, you find yourself repeating the same kind of scene, then it becomes not very challenging and not very interesting.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

I don’t have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that’s ok.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

Ethical conduct is something that becomes inherent in an organization over a long period of time.

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.

If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel – and we, ironically, become...

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

When you enjoy what you do, work becomes play.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

When I’m not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.

Your memorabilia becomes more significant. It does put you in a different category.

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible.

Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.

As users replace usage of the web with a mobile, app-centric ecosystem, the phone becomes the center of gravity. In this mobile world, Facebook is just one app on the phone.

Governing is one thing, campaigning is another – and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union.

Space is not a good place to mix foods because as soon as you take something out of the package, it becomes a flying object.

If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It’s like staring at the mirror all day.