Master Quotes - page 5

All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society. (Edmund Burke)
Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry - every man of every nation has done that - 'tis the living up to it that is difficult. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
I am inclined to agree with the Head Master of Eton that pæderastic passions among schoolboys 'do no harm'; further, I think them the only redeeming feature of sexual life at public schools. View quote
Aleister Crowley
The balance you have between drive and patience may be your master key to success. View quote
David Allen (author)
The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man, But one prize is beyond his reach, The Ogre cannot master Speech: About a subjugated plain, Among its desperate and slain, The Ogre stalks with hands on hips, While drivel gushes from his lips. View quote
W. H. Auden
Shihonage is the foundation of Aikido. All you ever need to master is shihonage. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
...what I mean by Socialism is a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brain­slack brain workers, nor heart­sick hand workers, in a word, in which all men would be living in equality of condition, and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all-the realisation at last of the meaning of the word commonwealth. View quote
William Morris
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master. View quote
Epictetus
And sure th' Eternal Master found His single talent well employ'd. View quote
Samuel Johnson
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
My reflection when I first made myself master of the central idea of the Origin was, "How extremely stupid of me not to have thought of that." View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience. View quote
Clement of Alexandria
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. View quote
Patricia Neal
When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [indicating her body], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinite is native to it. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
Mengistu seemed to symbolize the revolution. He was the baria, the slave who overthrew the master, the member of the conquered tribe who got even with the conquerors, the poorly educated son of a servant who rose against the intellectual elite. View quote
Mengistu Haile Mariam
Speed is not part of the true Way of strategy. Speed implies that things seem fast or slow, according to whether or not they are in rhythm. Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fast. View quote
Miyamoto Musashi
At the edge of life you feel that you are no longer master of the life within you, that subjectivity is an illusion, and that uncontrollable forces are seething inside you, evolving with no relation to a personal center or a definite, individual rhythm. (Emil Cioran)
The Church in the colonies is the white people's Church, the foreigner's Church. She does not call the native to God's ways but to the ways of the white man, of the master, of the oppressor. View quote
Frantz Fanon
The emerging picture from... studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of master associated with being a world-class expert-in anything. View quote
Daniel Levitin
I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion and - if he is lucky enough - know the love of an honest woman. View quote
Robert Graves
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. View quote
Robert Graves