Master Quotes - page 12

I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it. (E. Lockhart)
Both of my girls have very high self-esteem because they were both able to master certain things; I should think that's good for their confidence. View quote
Amy Chua
We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong. View quote
Carson McCullers
From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults. View quote
Alison Gopnik
I trust you, Jared," she whispered. "I always did. I love you, Master. View quote
Catherine Fisher
Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life. View quote
Alan Lakein
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace. View quote
Dalai Lama
Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to becomes master of your own destiny, you have more to learn. View quote
Michael Fox
The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences. View quote
Jeanne DuPrau
Tug looked nervously at his master. Horses aren't supposed to fly, he seemed to be saying. View quote
John Flanagan
When God put everybody here, I don't think that he had a master plan of a pecking order. That's not what you see in the Bible. I disagree with that notion, so in my estimation, we've all been put on this planet to share it. It is our duty and our obligation and our responsibility to make sure that we've done so in the proper fashion. (Corey Feldman)
Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance. -Doc. View quote
Bryce Courtenay
Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose. View quote
Carol Shields
There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double. View quote
Ian McDiarmid
How dangerous a master human emotion is! View quote
Watchman Nee
A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her. View quote
Elizabeth Peters
Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist. View quote
Alfred Sisley
An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease. View quote
Andrew Taylor Still
John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years. View quote
Eli Wallach
A cold realisation washed over me. From now on, my master would not always be there to protect and counsel me. 'This is big. Too big,' I said. 'What do I do?' 'You follow your destiny,' Ryoko said. 'As we all do. With honour and courage. View quote
Alison Goodman
Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems. (Ellis Peters)
Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy. View quote
Alistair Darling
It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master. View quote
Alphonsus Liguori
If anybody is a master at improvisation, it would be Ken Jeong. He is hilarious. View quote
Anneliese van der Pol
Nearly everything I do is part of a master plan to make me the most important entertainer in the world. View quote
Bobby Darin