It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.
The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.
Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only.
The real trick for me as a director is to make sure that people don't start pushing because the harder you push as a perform the less funny it becomes.
When a consumer derives value - especially from something that was given to him for free - he becomes the best kind of evangelist.
One of the nice things about our marriage, at least to my way of thinking, is that my wife and I no longer have to argue every thing through. We each know what the other will say, and so the saying becomes an unnecessary formality. No doubt some marriage counselor would explain to us that our problem is a failure to communicate, but to my way of thinking we've worked long and hard to achieve this silence, Lily's and mine, so fraught with mutual understanding.
The minute our correspondence becomes obligatory, there's no point in keeping touch at all.
The impossible becomes possible when your back is against the wall
The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way arduous and long. But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes harder and the hard way becomes easier. And as the calendar records the years, it becomes increasingly evident that the easy way rests hazardously upon shifting sands, whereas the hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away.
What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.
After realization, the attention becomes enlightened.
Everybody who is somebody becomes nobody the moment they fail
When one considers our nation's educational foundations - Harvard, Yale, Princeton and most of our respected institutions were originally Christian - it becomes evident why we, as Christians, maintain a passion about remaining true to the foundations of Scripture.
It becomes more and more popular to call actors who play characters "character actors. " But I've always been somebody who is much more invested in who I am playing than how they look.
Time becomes a stutter-the space between drumbeats, splintered into fragments, and also endlessly long, as long as soaring guitar notes that melt into one another, as full as the dark mass of bodies around me. I feel like the air downstairs has gone to liquid, to sweat and smell and sound, and I have broken apart in it. I am wave: I am pulled into the everything. I am energy and noise and a heartbeat going boom, boom, boom, echoing the drums.
It is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees and grains, it produces briers and pines. It is the same with man; if he is not virtuous, he becomes vicious.
If the economy is not expanding, the redistribution of income becomes a zero-sum game. And therefore, all the class struggle - and it becomes much more vicious.
Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.
It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.
Africa, being the major target of colonial plunder, therefore becomes a major source of conflict.
