Becoming Quotes - Page 17

• It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.

  Romano Prodi

  Perfect One, Constitution, Perfect

  "Full interview with Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission". www.euractiv.com. February 20, 2004.

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• The primary reason I'm in real estate, oil, gold, and silver is because the U.S. dollar has become the peso the world. It's becoming more and more worthless as the U.S. is the world's biggest debtor nation.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Real, Oil, Gold

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• Dealing with the fame and going from nothing and becoming something where everyone wants a piece of you, your life changes in a day.

  Bow Wow

  Life Changing, Pieces, Want

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• The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than anything else mirrors the present state of our civilization and its profound discontents. As wide-ranging as it is incisive, this astonishing work is a testimony both to the muted suffering of millions and to the great courage it must have taken the author to set his mind against it.

  W. G. Sebald

  Taken, Mirrors, Civilization

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• The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.

  David Rockefeller

  Impact, Ecosystems, Growth

  "The Unauthorized Biography of David Rockefeller", www.theeventchronicle.com. March 30, 2017.

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• Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

  Quintilian

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• To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Silence, Way, Easy

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.103, New World Library

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• The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting peace so long as glaring economic and social imbalances persist.

  Pope John XXIII

  Long, World, Imbalance

  Pope John XXIII (1967). “An invitation to hope”

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• But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just that sense of romanticism and escapism and the dream of it has always been quite alluring to me, as well as that sense of becoming a character through clothes.

  Florence Welch

  Dream, Fashion, Teenager

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• I knew early on that we needed to settle the food problem because if you can grow food it's empowering. In fact I believe growing food is one of the most dangerous occupations on the face of this earth because you're in danger of becoming free.

  Jules Dervaes

  Believe, Empowering, Growing

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• In London it had seemed impossible to travel without the proper evening clothes. One could see an invitation arriving for an Embassy ball or something. But on the other side of Europe with the first faint tinges of faraway places becoming apparent and exciting, to say nothing of vanishing roads and extra weight, Embassy balls held less significance.

  Robert Edison Fulton, Jr.

  Europe, Clothes, Arriving

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• Having survived her 10th London winter (she got through January by assigning it "international month," and amusing Moses and his big sister, Apple, 9, with a visiting Italian chef, Japanese anime screenings, and hand-rolled-sushi lessons, no less), Paltrow admits that her dreams of relocating the family to their recently acquired residence in Brentwood, California, are becoming ever more urgent.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Dream, Winter, Italian

  "Gwyneth Unveiled" by Sarah Bailey, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 11, 2013.

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• I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Children, Reading, Artist

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• Becoming adept at the process of self inquiry and symbolic insight is a vital spiritual task that leads to the growth of faith in oneself.

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Self, Growth

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.192, Harmony

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• Becoming internally empowered shifts a person's center of gravity from external to internal- a mark of spiritual passage.

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Gravity, Mark

  Twitter post from Sep 18, 2011

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• You are either becoming more like Christ every day or you are becoming less like Him. There is no neutral position in the Lord.

  Stormie Omartian

  Christ, Lord, Position

  Stormie Omartian (2014). “The Power of a Praying® Woman”, p.19, Harvest House Publishers

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• Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming.

  Frank Pierson

  Dream, Civilization, Who We Are

  "‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner ‘Lucky’ to Have Worked With the Late Frank Pierson in WGAW Statement About His Passing" by Jay A. Fernandez, www.indiewire.com. July 23, 2012.

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• New York is breaking my heart. I’ve often said that it’s like having a really interesting boyfriend suddenly becoming really, really into wine, and having to have endless conversations about it.

  David Rakoff

  New York, Heart, Wine

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• However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.

  William Labov

  Years, African American, Important

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• The philosopher spends in becoming a man the time which the ambitious man spends in becoming a personage.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Men, Ambitious, Philosopher

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• The willingness to trust others even when you know you may be taken advantage of is the cornerstone of becoming civilized.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Trust, Taken, May

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• It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.

  Andre Gide

  Age, Virtue, Lays

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• I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Skeletons, Scared, Scientist

  "Sept.10, 1941: Stephen Jay could born" Jess McNally, www.wired.com. September 10, 2010.

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• Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

  Leigh Hunt

  Sorrow, Tears, Despair

  Leigh Hunt (1853). “The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty”, p.62

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• In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

  Karl Marx

  Morning, Work, Mind

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.180, Cambridge University Press

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