To become the love of a poet is to become both a muse and an immortal all at the same time.
It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.
Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.
In our darkest moments we become stronger. In our happiest moments we become vulnerable.
There is a point at which honesty becomes mischief. That's when your writing becomes irresistible.
When the Turk becomes richer he takes another wife.
Sometimes the body becomes healthy by being very sick.
The lover of a student does not always become the wife of a graduate.
A person is a guest for one or two days, but becomes an intruder on the third.
The water from the river becomes salty when it reaches the ocean.
All things are becoming to good people.
Men will give away their last shirt to become millionaires.
What is truth? Pilate was not alone in dismissing this question as unanswerable and irrelevant for his purposes. Today too, in political argument and in discussion of the foundations of law, it is generally experienced as disturbing. Yet if man lives...
The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rockstar and you think, "They'll remember me now," but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup bec...
Because his art is such a difficult one, the writer is not likely to advance in the world as visibly as do his neighbors: while his best friends from high school or college are becoming junior partners in prestigious law firms, or opening their own m...
If a human being is to ascend to the heights of life, they must first know who they are, where they currently stand, and what they are actually (in truth, not in their limited idea) capable of doing, becoming, and achieving in the world.
When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting achievements too fabricated. It is the beginners and intermediates who carry this heavy and unne...
Every man becomes the image of the God he adores. He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead. He who loves corruption rots. He who loves a shadow becomes, himself, a shadow. He who loves things that must perish lives in dread of their ...
Because it’s not true that suffering purifies people; that we become better, wiser, more understanding in the process. We become cold and indifferent. When, for the first time in our lives, we properly understand our fate, we become almost calm. Ca...
