Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.
Charles Babbage

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.
Dick Cheney

I'm attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal stamp to them, then I think it becomes identifiable.
Leonard Nimoy

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
Seamus Heaney

Through shallow intellect, the mind becomes shallow, and one eats the fly, along with the sweets.
Guru Nanak

Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.
Thomas S. Monson

Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
Salman Rushdie

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
Salman Rushdie

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
Salman Rushdie

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
Honore De Balzac

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.
Honore de Balzac

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
Honore de Balzac

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel Johnson

I've done sexual stuff before - onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV crew around, you are stopping and starting; it becomes really technical. It's not erotic at all.
Randy Harrison

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
Karl Kraus

Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.
Ray Charles

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
Hermann Hesse

Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
Sam Levenson

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld