With every day that passes, David Blunkett becomes more insensitive in his language and more intemperate in his actions.
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.
Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.
We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
I say things I get away with, and it becomes a joke.
Because Scientologists view children as spiritual beings, you're not treated as a kid, so you're given a lot of responsibility. Your ego becomes extremely inflated.
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.
No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.
It's a free society. But don't tell the world that we can feed the present population without chemical fertilizer. That's when this misinformation becomes destructive.
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
I come to Jerusalem. There, the sky is blue and memory becomes clear.
When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.
Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.
The later it gets the more disturbed the city becomes. I go with Albert through the streets. Men are standing in groups at every corner. Rumours are flying. It is said that the military have already fired on a procession of demonstrating workers.
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
If we take as given that critical infrastructures are vulnerable to a cyber terrorist attack, then the question becomes whether there are actors with the capability and motivation to carry out such an operation.
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.
Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.
I have my values. I do things that I think are right. I think it is crucial for mankind to go vegetarian. In fact, I think if the United States and one other major power becomes basically vegetarian, the whole world will become vegetarian, eventually.
Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.
In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.
