The more obsessed one is with getting thin, the more certain it becomes that one will never get there.
Human kindness has no reward. You should give to others in every way you see. expect absolutely nothing from anyone. It should be your goal to love every human you encounter. All human suffering that you're aware of and continues without your effort to stop it becomes your crime.
The unimaginable always becomes the unforgettable.
A husband and wife should resolve never to wrangle with each other; never to bandy words or indulge in the least ill-humour. Never! I say; NEVER. Wrangling, even in jest, and putting on an air of ill-humour merely to tease, becomes earnest by practice.
You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.
The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profitable, we're going to see more of it.
The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.
A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it. . . You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.
A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
If cuts have to be made, the question then becomes which expenditure adds the least value? This is possibly what drives companies to reduce their advertising expenditure - simply because they do not understand its full value and especially as it is usually the single biggest investment on the balance sheet.
[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.
Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.
And now listen carefully. You in others-this is your soul. This is what you are. This is what your consciousness has breathed and lived on and enjoyed throughout your life-your soul, your immortality, your life in others. And what now? You have always been in others and you will remain in others. And what does it matter to you if later on that is called your memory? This will be you-the you that enters the future and becomes a part of it.
A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that. " says Dorian. "Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry
Basically we're puppeteers and if you're there and you're in the character, the puppet is going to look good. It's going to breath life and I think once they find out how to trust this system, you just forget about it and just perform, then it's just second nature, it just becomes easy.
I was doing my music because it was fun, and I always was like, "If it becomes a business, or it becomes too demanding, or if people try to tell me what to do or control what I'm doing, I won't do it. "
Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow.
Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.
Venial sin becomes mortal sin when one approves it as an end. . .