A master of happiness will appreciate what he or she has while they have them and the moment any specific thing is… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Purity in body and heart May please some--as for me, I make no boast. For, as you know, no master of a… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
No university on Earth gives master's degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to… — Scott Hahn Copy Share Image
There's a wide range of sales ability: there are many gradations between novices, experts, and masters. There are even sales grandmasters. If… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Chance, my master and my friend, will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his unruly kingdom.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You cannot extend the mastery of government over the daily life of a people without somewhere making it master of people's souls… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Chad Michael Ward is a master of the storytelling craft. His imagery, both still and moving, reaches deep into the darkest corners… — Dave Navarro Copy Share Image
In the larger sense, however, the personal ownership of firearms is only secondarily a matter of defense against the criminal. Note the… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
"With any major decision there are cautions and considerations to make, but once there has been illumination, beware the temptation to retreat… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
At one year of age the child says his first intentional wordhis babbling has a purpose, and this intention is a proof… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
EACH AND EVERY master, regardless of the era or place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
The triumph of the analytical movement, which formed in the '30's and '40's, was precisely what earned the Soviet masters the acclaim… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
He has made us the master organizers of the world . . . to overwhelm the forces of reaction throught the earth… — Albert J. Beveridge Copy Share Image
The linden, in the fervors of July, Hums with a louder concert. When the wind Sweeps the broad forest in its summer… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans... must strike out for… — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
Screenwriting you don't necessarily have to do the job of the costume designer and the prop master and the set designer. It's… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
Its funny how human beings tend to think that they're the masters of the earth never realizing that the earth, for a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
Forget the grand plan. Forget the master scheme. Forget control. That is the bleak but true basis of independent cinema. Inch by… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I would have things as they were in all the days of my life, and in the days of my longfathers before… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The birds that wake the morning, and those that love the shade; The winds that sweep the mountain or lull the drowsy… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
I pass and I move, I help you, I look for you, I stop, I raise my head, I look and, above… — Xavi Copy Share Image
Quinn Cummings is a master story-teller and her book is nothing short of delightful. Her insights into topics like celebrity, parenting, and… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by… — George Ellwanger Copy Share Image
Spring is a beautiful piece of work; and not to be in the country to see it done is the not realizing… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
There is one appointed supreme executioner. Truly, trying to take the place of the supreme executioner is like trying to carve wood… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated… — Thomas Clarkson Copy Share Image
I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Man is not an omipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
I love the game - and I hate the Russians because they've almost ruined it. They only risk the title when they… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
The reverence that the object maker has for the materials, for the shape, and for the miracle of his skill transcends to… — Sam Maloof Copy Share Image