#becomes

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#accident #become #becomes #children #deep

The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#actually #after #art #artist #because

The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense - but if you don't know that there's a bomb and it just blows up, then it's just a surprise. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#blow #blows #bomb #bus #hitchcock

There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have less of a script, like 'Elephant.' The road map becomes more interpretive, maybe, than one with a detailed script. Editing-wise, they all have their problems. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#becomes #detailed #elephant #films #interpretive

Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#orphan #soul #sunday #taken #you

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#also #becomes #happier #harder #live

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#chronic #console #finds #fresh #grief

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#becomes #bereft #commander #dependence #deserves

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do. ↗

— Paul Simon

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