Master Quotes - page 3

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy but I don't accept it as legitimately my master. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.
Václav Havel
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
John Calvin
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
Gustave Flaubert
To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
Marlene Dietrich
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Martin Heidegger
Choose only one master - Nature.
Rembrandt
This mutual dependencies no longer the dialectical relationship between master and servant, which has been broken in the struggle for mutual recognition, but rather a vicious circle which encloses both the master and the servant. Do the technicians rule, or is their rule that of the others, who rely on the technicians as their planners and executors?
Herbert Marcuse
Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.
Mark Twain
It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval. (Mark Twain)
Poor is the pupil that does not surpass his master.
Leonardo da Vinci
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Frank Herbert
When first we met we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master.
Robert Bridges
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Albert Einstein
After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.
William Lilly
Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.
Gretchen Rubin
Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.
Christopher Lasch
Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.
Alan Brennert
Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.
Bo Bennett
We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done. (Barbara Jordan)
To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
Milton Glaser
You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.
Conrad Hall
That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.
David Amram
I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.
Frederick Reines