Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.
J. Edgar Hoover

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
Mignon McLaughlin

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
Ralph W. Sockman

All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
Jeanne Moreau

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.
Henry Van Dyke

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.
Anna Freud

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
E. B. White

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
Henry Rollins

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.
Simone Weil

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
Simone Weil

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.
Vladimir Putin

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.
Morgan Freeman

Through the Thou a person becomes I.
Martin Buber

Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
Natalie Wood

Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
Gustave Flaubert

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
Anton Chekhov

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.
Anton Chekhov

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.
Charles Babbage

At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
Charles Babbage

In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.
Charles Babbage