(1111 quotes found)
“The worse a situation becomes the less it takes to turn it around, the bigger the upside.”
George Soros
“Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.”
Hermann Hesse
“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day”
Simone de Beauvoir
“Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.”
Cyril Connolly
“Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day”
Dag Hammarskjold
“I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.”
Susan Sarandon
“When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.”
Eleanor Powell
“I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.”
Andy Warhol
“Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.”
Zoroaster