When young, one learns his craftsmanship, may become a young master, and it is youth that is most auspicious for developing certain… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
Your weapons-master appears to have an actual, beating heart," she said to Raphael. "Who knew?" "Jessamy." "I concede that point." Elena referring… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth,… — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
In running it is man against himself, the cruelest of opponents. The other runners are not the real enemies. His adversary lies… — Glenn Cunningham Copy Share Image
I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions. — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look out at the stars. This practice should… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these… — Hank Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because… — Alain-Rene Lesage Copy Share Image
Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices. — George Sand Copy Share Image
Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There has come to you as your birthright something beautiful and sacred and divine. Never forget that. Your Eternal Father is the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Now, you integration-minded Negroes are trying to force yourselves on your former slave master, trying to make him accept you in his… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that… — Boethius Copy Share Image
This morning it occurred to me for the first time that my body, my faithful companion and friend, truer and better known… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Blessed is the pilgrim, who in every place, and at all times of this his banishment in the body, calling upon the… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Happiness only comes when you let go of who you think you are. If you think you're wealthy and powerful and noble… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A good judge should never boast of his power, because he can do nothing but what he can do justly: he is… — Thomas F. Wilson Copy Share Image
Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no… — Homer Copy Share Image
Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Without opening your door, you can open your heart to the world. Without looking out your window, you can see the essence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Old Zen, the Zen Master would do literally anything to break down the concept of what the study was. He would… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
It's easy to listen to what you are taught. But it's difficult to find what you have within yourself and master it… — Gogen Yamaguchi Copy Share Image
As the base rhetorician uses language to increase his own power, to produce converts to his own cause, and to create loyal… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Dilettantes appreciate the work, professors the master at the same time. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
