The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high.
The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember.
All over the web there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very good way to get to reviews and involve yourself in discussions.
Growing up, I never imagined a girl from a border town could one day become a governor.
I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.
I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.
Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the future or the present tense as much as in the past. And home, we know, is not just the place where you happen to be born. It's the place where you become yourself.
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
I didn't write to become a director, which many people do.
Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity.
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
Ultimately, I think it takes a certain grit and determination to constantly re-prove to people that you're just as dedicated, just as determined, and just as capable as the entrepreneurs around you who may better fit the physical pattern - but on the flipside, women who succeed often become razor sharp through the process.
When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries.
A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.
Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.
It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
The private sector must play a role in ensuring the prosperity and health of the people who comprise its market. It is time for the private sector to become a proactive partner contributing to the efforts of governments and philanthropies.
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
People are very protective of their cell phones, how it's used, where it's used and how much it costs. It has become a very personal issue for a whole lot of people in this country.
I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within.
I'm interested in authentic experience and the essence of that creative place, and where those myths begin and where they become real on any level.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.
It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.
For many terrorists, carrying out an attack allowed them to become the heroes of their own story.
For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.
