Master Quotes
2461 quotes by 1580 authors
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She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't…
— Gary Paulsen
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Why do they make things so complicated?" "So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand.," he said. "Imagine if everyone went around…
— Paulo Coelho
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Did you hear about the recently discovered temple in the Sudan ?" I stared at him. "Yeah. I'm a regular reader of National Geographic." Ol'…
— Michele Bardsley
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With practice, you will master your own dreams.
— Lisa McMann
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Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp…
— William Shakespeare
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The truth was, Azoth hated Azoth. Azoth was a coward, passive, weak, afraid, disloyal. Azoth had hesitated. Master Blint didn’t know it, but the poisons…
— Brent Weeks
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Kate, perhaps you need to explain to your significant other that he is in no position to give me orders. Last time I checked, his…
— Ilona Andrews
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A young apprentice applied to a master carpenter for a job. The older man asked him, "Do you know your trade?" "Yes, sir!" the young…
— Fred Rogers
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A hush of expectancy descended in the chamber as all waited to hear the request. What treasure could he want? Laren inventoried in her mind…
— Kristen Britain
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But the toaster was quite satisfied with itself, thank you. Though it knew from magazines that there were toasters who could toast four slices at…
— Thomas M. Disch
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A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
— Barbara Mertz
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I went away and cried to the Master of the Universe, "What have you done to me? A mind like this I need for a…
— Chaim Potok
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My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making. I am a poet and storyteller, a creator of ballads and sagas. Pray…
— Frances Hardinge
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On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the…
— Unknown Author
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Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.
— Gretchen Rubin
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Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free!
— Jules Verne
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She still had her bad days, no question, when the black dog of depression sniffed her out and settled its crushing weight on her chest…
— Lev Grossman
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I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things,…
— Joanne Greenberg
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These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, or he can enjoy listening to stories, and you have no need to go…
— Homer
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Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God’s essence. As one Sufi master…
— Reza Aslan
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