Masters Quotes · Page 31

I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.

— Karl Kraus

I refused [to study under Rodin] because nothing grows under large trees.

— Constantin Brancusi

A good prayer is master of anothers purse.

— George Herbert

Musashi, who trained himself, became a master swordsman who was never defeated.

— Kerr Cuhulain

If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

It's hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing is laying one on you.

— Charlaine Harris

I will have here but one mistress and no master.

— Elizabeth I

Dogs are very loyal to their masters but with cats you're the servant.

— James Bowen

The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.

— Christian D. Larson

The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.

— Malcolm X

Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

— Gautama Buddha

Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships.

— Harry Elmer Barnes

My idea of the real aristocrat is the master workman, no matter what his line of work may be.

— Henry Latham Doherty

Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

You don't need to justify your love, you don't need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice…

— Anonymous

Ah! happy is the man whose early lot Hath made him master of a furnish'd cot; Who trains the vine that round…

— Joanna Baillie

It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of…

— Bryce Courtenay

I did my masters in elementary particles. But the foundations of elementary particles is quantum theory and there were too many conceptual…

— Vandana Shiva

Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the…

— Jim Wallis

The successful construction of all machinery depends on the perfection of the tools employed; and whoever is a master in the arts…

— Charles Babbage

The retriever took each bit of meat from his master's hand with a delicacy almost equal to that of a hummingbird sipping…

— Dean Koontz

Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with…

— Dean Koontz

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

Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged…

— Audre Lorde

In my view, Jan Masaryk was thoroughly corrupt, who bumped himself off because he saw at last where his moral cowardice and…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated…

— Daniel Levitin

The requirements of the theatre are very great--a strong constitution, energy and unflagging purpose, charm of feature, these alone do not necessarily…

— Julia Marlowe

It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their master is one of perpetual confident boredom. All they…

— Robley Wilson

Unbelievers, those who believe with difficulty, or believe in part, are those who do not show their faith through works. Apart from…

— Symeon the New Theologian

Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it…

— Rajneesh

But I never plotted a master plan for following my dreams.

— Kathryn Joosten

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you

— Elbert Hubbard

Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master

— John Dryden

Make me the the master of education, and I will undertake to change the world.

— Gottfried Leibniz

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

— Anonymous

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master.

— Sonny Terry