#become

Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard. ↗

— Margaret Sackville

#ever #except #haggard #highest #laughter

I beg you not to resort to demonstrations, for they have become nothing but burned paper. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#beg #burned #demonstrations #i #nothing

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#changes #citizen #citizens #intervene #involved

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#become #far #go #interests #me

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#cannot #day #hours #saint #sixteen

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting. ↗

— Virginia Satir

#her #his #incomplete #individual #irrational

For me, the game would be to assume a very intelligent reader who can extrapolate a lot from a little. And that's become my definition of art; to get that pitch just right, where I can put a hint on page three, and the reader's ears go up a bit, as opposed to dropping it all on the first page. ↗

— George Saunders

#assume #become #bit #definition #dropping

So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some little seed crystal of interest, a sentence or an image or an idea, and as much as possible divest myself of any deep ideas about it. And then by this process of revision, mysteriously it starts to accrete meanings as you go. ↗

— George Saunders

#any #approach #become #crystal #deep

The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place. ↗

— George Saunders

#arises #asking #become #close #constantly

Men would find it much harder because men have such odd personal relationships with each other. They don't really emotionally connect, whereas women do. I think women become very close. ↗

— Jennifer Saunders

#become #close #connect #each #emotionally