The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point.
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.
When we think of entitlement programs, Social Security and Medicare immediately come to mind. But by any fair standard, the holy trinity of United States social policy should also include the mortgage-interest deduction - an enormous benefit that has also become politically untouchable.
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.
I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.
You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.
I have the utmost respect for synthesizers - Soft Cell, early Depeche Mode. But that's become a cliche for the '80s.
The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game.
Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.
Developing nations want to become developed nations.
The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction.
There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.
The courts have become grotesquely dictatorial and far too powerful.
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
Performing is my therapy, to become different people onstage.
