Quotes with becomes

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  • Gail Godwin None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.
    Gail Godwin
    American novelist and short story writer (1937 - )
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  • Seneca Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • John Keats Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Oscar Wilde On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • David Mitchell Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.
    Wolkenatlas (2008)
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Robert Wilson Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
    Robert Wilson
    American theater stage director and playwright (1941 - )
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  • Vince Lombardi Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • C. K. Williams One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
    C. K. Williams
    American poet, critic and translator (1936 - 2015)
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  • Anatole Rapoport One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
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  • Simone de Beauvoir One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Salman Rushdie One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Arnold Glasgow One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
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  • Bryan Fuller One of the things that's important for anybody adapting source material that is primarily a male buddy picture is to find ways to latch on to strong female characters in the piece and bring them to the forefront and celebrate their point of view alongside the men; otherwise, it becomes a sausage party, and it's a singular point of view.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • John Galsworthy One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.
    John Galsworthy
    British writer, playwright (1867 - 1933)
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  • Frederick Farrar One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor.
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Bodhidharma Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.
    The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Viktor E. Frankl Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.
    Viktor E. Frankl
    Austrian psychiatrist (1905 - 1997)
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  • Alberto Moravia Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
    Alberto Moravia
    Italian writer (ps. by Alberto Pincherle) (1907 - 1990)
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