All Quotes

To become an academic expert takes years of studying. Academic experts are experts in how and what others have done. They use case studies and observation to understand a subject.
‐‐ Simon Sinek

To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.
‐‐ Ernest Istook

To become an astronaut, someone has to have a dream of his own to do something that he or she has always wanted to do, then commit himself to making that dream come true.
‐‐ Eugene Cernan

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
‐‐ Henry Drummond

To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician.
‐‐ Sherwin B. Nuland

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
‐‐ Novalis

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
‐‐ Ma Jian

To become the kind of person you want to become, you've got to have discipline. It's easier to keep to your standards 100 percent of the time versus 98 percent of the time.
‐‐ Clayton M. Christensen

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
‐‐ Charles de Montesquieu

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
‐‐ Giorgio de Chirico

To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.
‐‐ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
‐‐ Robert Louis Stevenson

To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make.
‐‐ Antony Beevor

To begin to know the philosophy of socialism, in backward countries where the class differences are great, very great, and terribly exaggerated over the conditions we know in this country, to overcome this, the theory of revolution, of force and violence, was necessary within those political conditions. It couldn't be anything else.
‐‐ Sidney Buchman

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
‐‐ James Lane Allen

To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.
‐‐ Ednita Nazario

To begin with, I've always known that I was a little bit different. And, I have a lot of relatives who own farms. I grew up in the American South where political issues and issues of justice were at the forefront. What I do now is a combination of all these factors.
‐‐ Cary Fowler

To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as - as myth or legend or even fanciful.
‐‐ Joseph Bruchac

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
‐‐ Petrarch

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
‐‐ Edmund Husserl

To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer - but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort.
‐‐ Scott Reed

To beguile is to deceive or lead astray, as Lucifer beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.
‐‐ Samuel Rutherford

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.
‐‐ Ernest Holmes

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
‐‐ Voltaire

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.
‐‐ Leonardo DiCaprio

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open.
‐‐ Lillian Smith

To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.
‐‐ Joan Didion

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
‐‐ Thomas Browne

To believe that one, or even three, mates can supply all the things one needs from one's friends is as stupid as believing married couples must do everything together.
‐‐ Julie Burchill

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.
‐‐ Robert Jackson

To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.
‐‐ Tim Wise

To believe that your husband, wife, parents, kids, boss, job, bank account, or body is even partly responsible for your emotions, to think that there are bullets 'out there' that you have to contend with, that there are stressful life events to overcome, is to miss something vital.
‐‐ Andrew J. Bernstein

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
‐‐ Stanislaus I

To betray, you must first belong.
‐‐ Kim Philby

To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.
‐‐ Dave Barry

To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.
‐‐ Emil Zatopek

To bolster his right flank and attract women voters, John McCain had cynically opted for a running mate who was, by any stretch of the imagination, unqualified for a position a heartbeat away from the presidency.
‐‐ Jay Parini

To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!'
‐‐ Cheryl Hayashi

To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education.
‐‐ Melanie Griffith

To break R&B into subcategories does a disservice to the music. I like to live in a zone where I can do whatever I want, where I don't have to worry about genre.
‐‐ Tinashe

To break the mark definitely showed me I'm on the right track.
‐‐ Katie Hoff

To breed a winner, let alone at Royal Ascot, is unbelievable. I've got four children and they all love the mother. We pat it most days and she's a lovely mare.
‐‐ Michael Owen

To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.
‐‐ Larry Elder

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.
‐‐ Matthew McConaughey

To bring a large audience to a piece of serious music and make it accessible does not mean reducing it in any way. And I've learned that if something is good, even if it is a little difficult, people will get that it is good.
‐‐ Itzhak Perlman

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.
‐‐ Richard Bach