Master Quotes
2461 quotes by 1580 authors
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Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.
— Jean-Dominique Bauby
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Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they admired…
— Anthony de Mello
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
— Epictetus
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You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
— Thomas Pynchon
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He who lets fear rule him, has fear for a master [Acheron]
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of…
— Leon Uris
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Should we be mindful of dreams?" Joseph asked. "Can we interpret them?" The Master looked into his eyes and said tersely: "We should be mindful…
— Hermann Hesse
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Vittoria slipped off her robe. 'You've never been to bed with a yoga master, have you?
— Dan Brown
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Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive -- a peculiar…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of…
— Jacques Ellul
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As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and…
— Scott Hahn
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This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.
— Jack London
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Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master…
— Henry Miller
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I had always wanted to love Eve as Denny loved her, but I never had because I was afraid. She was my rain. She was…
— Garth Stein
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He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school.…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The more powerful you become, the more others will find ways to master you. They'll do it through those you love and those you hate.…
— Holly Black
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as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master…
— Bell Hooks
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Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast….Of course, slowness is bad. Really skillful people never get out of time, and are…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it…
— Toni Morrison
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