Becoming Quotes - Page 27

• If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.

  Paula Rego

  Facts, Ends, Harm

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• God loves us already and has from our very beginning. The Christian life is not about believing or doing what we need to believe or do so that we can be saved. Rather, it's about seeing what is already true – that God loves us already – and then beginning to live in this relationship. It is about becoming conscious of and intentional about a deepening relationship with God.

  Marcus Borg

  Christian, Believe, Needs

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• To float like a cloud you have to go to the trouble of becoming one.

  Robert Genn

  Clouds, Becoming One, Effort

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• I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded by Medieval and Renaissance architecture and to hold a tube of Alizarin Madder Lake in my artist's hand and marvel at the shiny goop inside.

  Mark Kostabi

  Real, Artist, Lakes

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• Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.

  Matthew Arnold

  Perfection, Mind, Inward

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• March is the month of expectation,
  The things we do not know,
  The Persons of Prognostication
  Are coming now.
  We try to sham becoming firmness,
  But pompous joy
  Betrays us, as his first betrothal
  Betrays a boy.

  Emily Dickinson

  Spring, Boys, Expectations

  Emily Dickinson (1915). “The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime”

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• At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Army, Simplicity

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• Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

  Matthew Arnold

  Character, Perfection, Personality

  Culture and Anarchy ch. 1 (1869)

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• As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.

  John James Audubon

  Nature, Science, Glowing

  John James Audubon (1831). “Ornithological Biography, Or an Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America: Accompanied by Descriptions of the Objects Represented in the Work Entitled The Birds of America, and Interspersed with Delineations of American Scenery and Manners”, p.7

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• When a sunbeam falls on a transparent substance, the substance itself becomes brilliant, and radiates light from itself. So too Spirit bearing souls, illumined by Him, finally become spiritual themselves, and their grace is sent forth to others. From this comes knowledge of the future, understanding of mysteries, apprehension of hidden things, distribution of wonderful gifts, heavenly citizenship, a place in the choir of angels, endless joy in the presence of God, becoming like God, and, the highest of all desires, becoming God.

  Saint Basil

  Spiritual, Fall, Angel

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• "The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury; it were best that they were compelled to worked so that they could earn their living instead of doing nothing but becoming avaricious."

  Thomas Aquinas

  Usury, Doing Nothing, Should

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• The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like Himself; when we have been proved in our present capacity, and been faithful with all things He puts into our possession. We are created, we are born for the express purpose of growing up from the low estate of manhood, to become Gods like unto our Father in heaven. That is the truth about it, just as it is. The Lord has organized mankind for the express purpose of increasing in that intelligence and truth, which is with God, until he is capable of creating worlds on worlds, and becoming Gods, even the sons of God

  Brigham Young

  Growing Up, Father, Son

  Brigham Young (1992). “The Essential Brigham Young”

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• The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint.

  Charles Fort

  Humility, Years, Old Year

  Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.49, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something.

  Walter Cronkite

  Ambition, Ego

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• Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Life Is

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• The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as evil is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected on. No one can fail to see that in our day it is becoming a very great agency.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Writing, Agency, Evil

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2016). “Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe”, p.162, Library of Alexandria

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• You seem to be going in for sincerity today. It isn't becoming to you, really — except as an obvious pose. Be as artificial as you are, I advise. There's a sort of sincerity in that, you know. And, after all, you must confess you like that better.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Today, Sincerity, Obvious

  Eugene O'Neill (2014). “The Hairy Ape”, p.20, The Floating Press

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• If your Income Taxes go to help out the less fortunate, there could be no legitimate kick against it in the world. This is becoming the richest, and the poorest Country in the world. Why? Why, on account of an unequal distribution of the money.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Income, World

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover Years, 1929-1931”

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• We who advocate peace are becoming an irrelevance when we speak peace. The government speaks rubber bullets, live bullets, tear gas, police dogs, detention, and death.

  Desmond Tutu

  Dog, Irrelevance, Government

  Sunday Times Magazine, June 08, 1986.

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• I kind of miss that "becoming" stage, as most times you really don't know what's around the corner. Now, of course, I've kind of knocked on the door and heard a muffled answer. Nevertheless, I still don't know what the voice is saying, or even what language it's in.

  David Bowie

  Voice, Doors, Missing

  "Rock's Heathen Speaks". Livewire Interview, www.concertlivewire.com. June 16, 2002.

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• I like things pretty reduced. I don't understand how people live with so much stuff around them, because you can't focus on it, and after a while it ends up becoming absorbed. It's not as if anything's really being appreciated. To me all that stuff is some desperate message to everyone about who you are, like bumper stickers.

  Rick Owens

  People, Focus, Messages

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• Becoming a walking, dancing, fire-breathing lifestyle dragon is not something you can pursue overnight! It takes years of studying, living, and understanding the modern culture!

  Theophilus London

  Breathing, Fire, Dragons

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• When ABBA broke up, I assumed our music would fall into oblivion so in the early 90's with BJRN AGAIN becoming popular and when U2 invited Benny and I on stage to sing Dancing Queen, I just assumed we were being sent up. But now I see they were paying tribute to us

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Queens, Fall, Dancing

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• Even the mistakes, even everything bad that happened, I wouldn’t change because then I wouldn’t be the person that I am today. The past is the past. I just want to focus on the future, and getting better, not making the same mistakes and just becoming a better person, a better artist. Just a better everything.

  Jay Park

  Mistake, Past, Artist

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• More and more people are becoming aware that government has nothing to give them without first taking it away from somebody else-or from themselves. Increased handouts to selected groups mean merely increased taxes, or increased deficits and increased inflation.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Mean, Government, People

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.228, Crown Business

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