Come To Be Quotes

#1. There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.

Leon Bloy

#2. How did your parents come to be "lost at sea", Moriarty?'
The professor paused, and said, 'Mysteriously, Moran.

Kim Newman

#3. Assuredly, the size of (Cadel) Evans' heart will come to be compared to Phar Lap.

Paul Ramadge

#4. I had no doubt that I could do something, but what, and how? I had no contacts and I believed in nothing. And the obsession with my identity which I had developed in the factory hospital returned with a vengeance. Who was I, how had I come to be?

Ralph Ellison

#5. Jesus was certainly not a mere enunciator of permanent truths, like the modern liberal preacher; on the contrary He was conscious of standing at the turning-point of the ages, when what had never been was now to come to be.

J. Gresham Machen

#6. To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

#7. How did you come to be a pirate?"
"I was aboard a pirate ship."
She rolled her eyes at him. "How did you come to be aboard a pirate ship?

Jade Parker

#8. When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee.

Augustine Of Hippo

#9. Society was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be condemned; it called him to return to that rubbish heap from which he had wandered away, so that justice could be done.

Joseph Conrad

#10. What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said; "I can't help it.

Leo Tolstoy

#11. All we ever find is the arising and ceasing of the world as it has come to be now. When you snap your fingers, it's already gone. All that persists is thus. Thus is not an object of mind but Mind Itself.

Steve Hagen

#12. Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. By daily dying, I have come to be.

Theodore Roethke

#14. His brows rose. "And how is it that you have come to be such an expert on scrapes and bruises?"
"I'm a governess," she said. Because really, that ought to be explanation enough.

Julia Quinn

#15. As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#16. I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and there may come a time when I will dread giving up a novel at all.

Joyce Carol Oates

#17. The orphan in children's literature allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family, every intelligent child thinks: 'How did I come to be born to these parents?' - it is about finding your place in the world.

Brian Selznick

#18. Carl's concept of freedom had come to be embodied by a mariner in a storm, wholly responsible for himself, accountable to no one else, asking no quarter from the sea, measuring his worth by his immediate actions.

John Kretschmer

#19. How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.

Will Durst

#20. I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.

Venus Williams

#21. Tourists and imperialists do not come to be taught. They call things the way they call things at home.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#22. Father argued that society as a whole must come to be organized on a different basis than greed, for while material interests gained somewhat by the institutionalized deification of pure selfishness, ordinary men and women lost everything by it.

Russell Banks

#23. Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world?

Soren Kierkegaard

#24. Washington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#25. We live in such a noisy world that many of us have come to be afraid of silence. We think that if only we do a great deal, it does not much matter what we are.

Mother Mary Francis

#26. A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.

Nicolas Roeg

#27. How does the body come to be apprehended as a body? Why does it not fall apart into the seen and the heard, the smelt, the tasted and the touched?

Nanamoli Thera

#28. Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete.

Max Horkheimer

#29. Craft can be practiced by anyone, regardless of the skill or artistry that has come to be demanded by those who preach craft. Like a good meal, a good Crafternoon shouldn't need much - a few quality ingredients, a couple of good friends, and a little bit of creativity.

Maura Madden

#30. Life is an ephemeral business, and we waste too much of it in judging where it would beseem us better to accept, that we ourselves may come to be accepted by such future ages as may pursue the study of us.

Rafael Sabatini

#31. Despite my express wish, I was not left in Chicago, but taken to Paris to live, and I did not see my father for many years. But we never stopped loving each other, and in 1940 he died in my arms in Hollywood, where he had come to be near me at the end.

Preston Sturges

#32. For instance, suppose walking is for the loosening of the bowels, and a 25 man walks without having this come to be: we say that he walked in vain

J.L. Ackrill

#33. First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

#34. Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.

Confucius

#35. This beautiful, perfect in every way, eternal creature was finally about to be his forever. The smile that crept onto his lips felt unreal, like he'd stolen something that should never have belonged to him, but had come to be his most treasured possession.

Kiersten Fay

#36. Southern California, which is shaped somewhat like a coffin, is a giant sanatorium with flowers where people come to be cured of life itself in whatever way .... This is the last stop before the sun gives up and sinks into the black, black ocean, and night - usually starless here - comes down.

John Rechy

#37. Even those, who some time ago believed all the stories about God, that is who believed that divine power exists, have now come to be so ashamed of their own belief, hiding their ignorance, they are now struggling hard to prove those stories as scientifically true.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#38. If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

Confucius

#39. Unless he'd missed is guess, Miss Joanna Robbins possessed the soul of a missionary. How that had come to be when she'd been raised by an outlaw and his gang, Crockett couldn't fathom. Yet he sensed her passion. Respected it. He'd not belittle her dream.

Karen Witemeyer

#40. Without Nebuchadnezzar's conquest and deportation, Judaism as we know it, and therefore Christianity and Islam in their turn, could never have come to be.

Paul Kriwaczek

#41. What ages is not merely your functions and organs, but the whole of your nature, that particular person you have come to be and already were years ago.

James Hillman

#42. All it takes is for people to believe and I am no longer just an artefact put together by clever engineers. I am an idea, a something made of nothing, whose time has come to be. Some may even call me Goddess

Terry Pratchett

#43. in exceptional circumstances - exceptional in that all circumstances in life are exceptional, especially those which are nothing in themselves and come to be everything in their results.

Alvaro De Campos

#44. It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.

Loren Eiseley

#45. wasn't as important as the act of changing. People were charmed by differentness, they liked the attention, they were intrigued by novelty. This has come to be called the Hawthorne Effect.

Tom DeMarco

#46. If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may feel some slight encouragement to pursue an independent course.

John Tyler

#47. How - I didn't know any
word for it - how "unlikely" ...
How had I come to be here,
like them, and overhear
a cry of pain that could have
got loud and worse but hadn't?

Elizabeth Bishop

#48. In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.

Cormac McCarthy

#49. My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#50. We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.

Christina Stead

#51. How is it then that we've come to imagine that Christianity consists primarily in what we do for God? How has this come to be the good news of Jesus?

Brennan Manning

#52. Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.

Roger L'Estrange

#53. She pondered on how she had come to be as that particular place, at that particular moment, at that specific time in her life. Why, at fifty-three years old, was she lying on the hard ground, about to have a shootout with a murderer?

Andrew Joyce

#54. Her tranquillity is their astonishment. For that they come, to be amazed again that such peace is there: all they have heard, and still hear now, does not record it. Calamity shaped a life when, long ago, chance was so cruel.

William Trevor

#55. I don't know what to make of the Muslim mystics, especially those who have come to be known as the Sufis. What do they experience in their mystic experiences? Could they have encountered the same God we do in our Christian mysticism?

Tony Campolo

#56. People ... don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.

Andrew Solomon

#57. There are times when, that which we wish to be, will come to be, when we let it be.

Tom Althouse

#58. At the beginning of my career, my desire to understand was associated with a profound desire to act, with the wish to influence opinion and policy; but, over the years, this motivation has come to be of secondary importance, far behind my desire to understand.

Maurice Allais

#59. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.

Woodrow Wilson

#60. Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#61. Bodybuilding has come to be seen as a means by which boys can turn desire into identification.

Mark Simpson

#62. Jesus did not come to be right. He came to make disciples.

Andy Stanley

#63. And it follows that I am, because you are: it follows from 'you are', that I am, and we: and, because of love, you will, I will, we will, come to be.

Pablo Neruda

#64. As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

Allan Bloom

#65. I haven't come to the theater to hear about other people's probelms. I've come to be taken out of myself, and, preferably, not put back again.

Michael Frayn

#66. 115.Something kinda sad about the way that things have come to be. Desensitized to everything. What became of subtlety? How can this mean anything to me..If I really don't feel anything at all?

Maynard James Keenan

#67. Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.

Caitlin Moran

#68. Usually it is through loss that things come to be of value.

Steven Redhead

#69. Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, 'It's business.' That is, 'it's business' has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.

Ida Tarbell

#70. Our mothers and fathers helped us come to be and, even nlw, they continue to give us life.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#71. Smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#72. Dodge v. Ford still stands for the legal principal that managers and directors have a legal duty to put the shareholders' interests above all others and no legal authority to serve any other interests - what has come to be known as "the best interests of the corporation" principal.

Joel Bakan

#73. Having no feeling himself, such a preacher creates none, and the people sit and listen while he keeps to dry, lifeless statements, until they come to value him for being "sound", and they themselves come to be sound, too; and I need not add, sound asleep also,

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#74. Thus these politicians proceed, whilst little notice is taken of their doctrines; but when they come to be examined upon the plain meaning of their words, and the direct tendency of their doctrines, then equivocations and slippery constructions come into play.

Edmund Burke

#75. There are three youthful behaviors that together make up what has come to be known as the homicidal triad: enuresis (bed-wetting) beyond an appropriate age, fire starting, and cruelty to animals and/or smaller children.

John E. Douglas

#76. I predict that in the years ahead Enron, not Sept. 11, will come to be seen as the greater turning point in U.S. society.

Paul Krugman

#77. Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.

Nelson Algren

#78. Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.

Roger E. Olson

#79. Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have always wished for has finally come to be. You will look back and laugh at what has passed and you will ask yourself ... 'How did I get through all of that?

Charles L. Allen

#80. Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#81. Our success as a party will largely be determined by how well we do here in the heartland ... The time has come to be secure about our values. The time has come to lead.

Evan Bayh

#82. It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error of responsibility, which is based upon the error of the freedom of will.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#83. You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph, evincing a better self in response to things that hurt.

Andrew Solomon

#84. Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want it to be brought into the life of everybody.

Swami Vivekananda

#85. How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing

George Grosz

#86. I really believe that what we finally want is to know God, as God has come to be known through Jesus. Knowledge is knowledge of the heart - the Spirit - I would say. It is the Spirit in us who reveals God.

Henri Nouwen

#87. We begin as children imagining and fearing ghosts. By degrees, through our long lives, we come to be the very ghosts inhabiting the lost landscapes of our childhood.

Joyce Carol Oates

#88. Her eyes wandered back to the campus again, and she suddenly grew sober as the thought swept over her that in a few weeks more it would be hers no longer. This happy, irresponsible community life, which had come to be the only natural way of living, was suddenly at an end.

Jean Webster

#89. In the United States, to an unprecedented degree, the individual's social role has come to be determined not by who he is but by what he can accomplish.

John W. Gardner

#90. Once again, it must be reiterated that beliefs and practices that developed in response to earlier, and presumably different, environmental pressures tend to persist, and the result may come to be far less than efficient utilization of an environment

Don Edward Beck

#91. God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves.

Pope Benedict XVI

#92. In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

H.L. Mencken

#93. I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.

Quentin Blake

#94. For we were the purpose of his embodiment, and for our salvation he so loved human beings as to come to be and appear in a human body.

Athanasius Of Alexandria

#95. Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

Edith Wharton

#96. Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people ... As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

Bertrand Russell

#97. come to be entertained, but who expect nothing special.

Brandon Sanderson

#98. There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.

Ann Beattie

#99. Jesus did not come to be the Messiah

John Hagee

#100. When systems come to be far from points of equilibrium, they reach bifurcation points, wherein multiple, as opposed to unique, solutions, to instability become possible.

Immanuel Wallerstein