Master Quotes
2461 quotes by 1580 authors
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Original sin is not only the violation of a positive command … but … attempts … to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays which permeate the…
— Pope John Paul II
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We are very much like them: indiscriminate killers, ruled by drives little acknowledged and less understood, mindlessly territorial and murderously jealous - the only significant…
— Rick Yancey
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The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could…
— Confucius
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The Master said of Gong Yechang, “He is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as a criminal, he was in fact innocent of…
— Confucius
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The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit.†(Analects 4.16)
— Confucius
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The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse great resentment.
— Confucius
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The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashamed merely of shabby clothing…
— Confucius
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The Master said, “Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way I will not…
— Confucius
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The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.†(Analects 2.11)
— Confucius
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The Master said, “To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned—is this not satisfying? To have companions arrive from…
— Confucius
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She went of her own accord,' answered the master; 'she has a right to go if she please. Trouble me no more about her. Hereafter…
— Emily Bronte
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It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy…
— Charlotte Bronte
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We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man can be master of a craft, and…
— Beryl Markham
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There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A…
— Umberto Eco
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The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he…
— Isaac Asimov
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There is no Master but the Master,†he said, “and QT-1 is his prophet.
— Isaac Asimov
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You'd help if you could, wouldn't you, boy?" I said. "It's no wonder they call you man's best friend. Faithful and loyal and true, you…
— Connie Willis
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I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards.…
— Martha Gellhorn
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I'd never seen a man who could outshop me, but Jenks was a master.
— Kim Harrison
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