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It's not a character flaw to become an adult.
Kenneth Lonergan
Character
Become
Adult
Flaw
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
Kent Nerburn
Father
Become
Easier
Than
Much
Dad
I do become a recluse once in a while. It's so nice to just be at home and to not have to deal with the outside world.
Kourtney Kardashian
Home
World
Become
Just Be
Nice
Once
Recluse
Outside
Outside World
Deal
Just
While
It can be easy to become 'friends' or 'connected' with someone in a digital world, but it requires thought and strategy to convert social media connections into rewarding business relationships.
Lewis Howes
Business
World
Social Media
Digital
Thought
Become
Strategy
Digital World
Relationships
Easy
Someone
Friends
Rewarding
Convert
Social
Requires
Connected
Connections
Media
I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.
Lewis Thomas
Technology
Communication
People
Collective
Single
Big
Become
Own
Community
Our
Way
Members
Give
Leading
How
Brain
Effect
End
Up
Model
Ants
Exploding
Us
Useful
Organized
Resembling
Compare
Population
Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty, and we dream of finding new secrets of nature as important and as exciting as those uncovered by our scientific heroes.
Luis Walter Alvarez
Love
Nature
Physics
Heroes
Important
Beauty
Become
Tools
Our
Secrets
Those
Intrinsic
Dream
Finding
Physicists
Exciting
Uncovered
New
Most
Because
Scientific
Experimental
Us
Who
Reasons
Two
There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.
Maeve Binchy
Life
Beautiful
Ugly
Problems
Become
Own
Books
Charge
Able
Take
She
Becomes
Does
Duck
Confident
Swan
Her
Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each other's presence.
Malcolm D. Lee
Become
Other
About
Sharing
Material
Material Things
Been
Being
Stories
Holidays
Each
Things
Presence
According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature
Law
Become
Only
Through
No-One
Fair
Another
According
Richer
Should
Injuries
Suffered
Damages
My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don't have sex - ever. Now that the milk is free, we've both become lactose intolerant.
Margaret Cho
Together
Sex
Free
Become
Live
Intolerant
Both
Boyfriend
Which
Means
Now
Milk
Ever
We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we're moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.
Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook
People
World
Become
Way
Those
About
More
Open
Share
Ideal
Towards
Combination
Leads
Openness
Concept
Talk
Empowering
Get
Moving
Transparency
Connect
Things
Two
Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties.
Martin Filler
Architecture
Master
Become
Before
Apprenticeship
Nineteenth
Nineteenth Century
Carpenter
Mason
Builder
His
Begin
Century
Standard
Aspiring
Twenties
Fourteen
Early
If you are strong, and you are fighting the weak for any period of time, you are going to become weak yourself. If you behave like a coward, then you are going to become cowardly - it's only a question of time.
Martin Van Creveld
Time
You
Yourself
Strong
Coward
Become
Cowardly
Fighting
Weak
Only
Like
Period
Question
Behave
Any
Going
Then
Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn't become complacency. If you say, 'We're not going to change; we didn't do it that way before,' then you've become too old.
Marv Levy
You
Change
Experience
Old
Long
Become
Before
Complacency
Too
Way
Say
Plus
Going
Then
Should
Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.
Mary Baker Eddy
You
Yourself
Better
Mind
Will
Become
Before
Manly
Temporarily
Give
More
Within
Maker
Understand
Womanly
Up
Quickly
Than
Your
Skull
Even
Belief
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
Mary McCarthy
Become
Despotism
Rule
No-One
Bureaucracy
Modern
Form
I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.
Mary Oliver
Life
Prayer
My Life
Become
Think
One Thing
More
Almost
Involuntary
Fruitful
Interesting
Useful
Thing
Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess player.
Max Euwe
Good
Game
Will
Giving
Become
Other
Aim
Sees
Never
Checkmate
Opponent
Chess
Than
Whoever
Player
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo
Best
World
Worth
Value
Promises
Become
Vain
Something
Self
Part
Most
Safest
Course
Confide
Phantoms
Stop looking for the 'right' career, and start looking for a job. Any job. Forget about what you like. Focus on what's available. Get yourself hired. Show up early. Stay late. Volunteer for the scut work. Become indispensable. You can always quit later, and be no worse off than you are today.
Mike Rowe
Work
Today
You
Yourself
Job
Focus
Looking
Become
Late
Later
Worse
Stay
About
Indispensable
Volunteer
Like
Always
Hired
Off
Up
Than
Forget
Get
Quit
Any
Stop
Available
Show
Right
Start
Early
Career
I really do think we're going through a period of concentration of ownership of media, and we're starting to see the effects at the editorial level, and it's all bad. This increased pressure for profits every quarter, smaller news hole, less coverage of important stuff - the extent that it's become one giant infotainment industry.
Molly Ivins
News
Pressure
Important
Become
Ownership
Every
Think
Increased
Giant
Bad
See
Through
Smaller
Stuff
Concentration
Period
Industry
Editorial
Quarter
Coverage
Effects
Going
Hole
Really
Less
Media
Level
Profits
Extent
Starting
Texas is still resistant to Howard Johnsons, interstate highways and some forms of phoniness. It is the place least likely to become a replica of everyplace else. It's authentically awful, comic, and weirdly charming, all at the same time.
Molly Ivins
Time
Become
Interstate
Else
Some
Charming
Highways
Weirdly
Likely
Comic
Least
Still
Texas
Replica
Same
Same Time
Place
Forms
Awful
Resistant
Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.
Naomi Wolf
Best
Great
Morning
Become
Great American
Has-Been
Promising
City
Fact
Since
Hill
Cliche
Fake
Reagan
Tradition
Been
Optimism
Task
America
American
In Fact
Which
I would certainly encourage young people to pursue their dreams. It isn't always an easy path, but it's worth going after. And I figure if a farmer's daughter from Iowa can become an astronaut, you can be just about anything you want to be.
Peggy Whitson
Dreams
You
People
Worth
Path
Daughter
Become
Young
Astronaut
Would
Easy
About
Pursue
Iowa
Always
Encourage
Going
Just
Want
After
Anything
Young People
Farmer
Certainly
Figure
Now in the 21st century, the boundaries separating chemistry, physics, and medicine have become blurred, and as happened during the Renaissance, scientists are following their curiosities even when they run beyond the formal limits of their training.
Peter Agre
Physics
Training
Become
Chemistry
Medicine
Run
Following
Boundaries
Beyond
Renaissance
Limits
Scientists
Curiosities
Formal
Happened
Blurred
Century
Separating
Even
Now
I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.
Peter Stone
Man
Law
Three
Become
Congress
Law Firm
More
Firm
Come
Conclusion
Disgrace
Useless
Two
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