"It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being."

--

F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Becoming Quotes

“A company works best when everybody does the job he is paid to do.”
“Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.”
“There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one--you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at themercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.”
“To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Obviously my best strategy is to wait, listen, and learn.”

Source : "Silver Surfer". Comic book, Vol. 3, no. 35 "The Name is Thanos", March 1990.
“I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.”
“Slavish obedience to the clerics, who know how to squeeze every last drop of advantage out of religion, is killing our girls. We must speak-blaspheme, if necessary; be accused of being apostates, if that is what is required. Muslims are taught that Islam put an end to the Arabian practice of burying alive newborn baby girls because they were considered worthless and a burden, but as long as we stay quiet in the face of the abomination of child marriage, we are effectively burying our girls alive today.”
“If two angels were to receive at the same moment a commission from God, one to go down and rule earthâ€™s grandest empire, the other to go and sweep the streets of its meanest village, it would be a matter of entire indifference to each which service fell to his lot, the post of ruler or the post of scavenger; for the joy of the angels lies only in obedience to Godâ€™s will, and with equal joy they would lift a Lazarus in his rags to Abrahamâ€™s bosom, or be a chariot of fire to carry an Elijah home.”

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