For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the… — Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Copy Share Image
This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Social media changes the relationship between companies and customers from master and servant, to peer to peer. — Jay Baer Copy Share Image
Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his… — Betty Edwards Copy Share Image
Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My job is to ensure the sanctity of this House. Ensuring the sanity of its Master seemed like a good start.” — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
Bad roads and indifferent inns, ... the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind - innkeepers,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
After a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Fire and people do in this agree,They both good servants, both ill masters be. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
Christopher discovered that you dealt with obnoxious masters and most older boys the way you dealt with governesses: you quite politely told… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
It is to Titian we must turn our eyes to find excellence with regard to color, and light and shade, in the… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative… — Waverley Root Copy Share Image
If you try to avoid every instance of peer pressure you will end up without any peers whatsoever, and the trick is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What’s your name, lad?” “Newton. Newton Pulsifer.” “LUCIFER? What’s that you say? Are ye of the Spawn of Darkness, a tempting beguiling… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes. — Bradley Whitford Copy Share Image
Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the… — Edgar Quinet Copy Share Image
To grant the power of a weapon master to anyone at all, without effort, without training and proof that the lessons have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism… — Helmut Gernsheim Copy Share Image
