Top 1200 Master Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate.

Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.

After working as a charter boat captain and dive master in the Caribbean for a number of years, I decided it was time for a change.

When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security.

If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you: and if you have several, you must bear at once their tyranny and their divisions.

Remember that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of while you breathe.

Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.

Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in.

One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.

If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out.

To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.

It is imperative that one approaches a spiritual master, for by such association one proportionately develops his consciousness towards the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.

...Francis Galton, founder of the eugenics (master race) movement which continues today under the heading of 'population control'.

Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

I wouldn't want to end up in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the 'Master of Hip-Hop Samples,' but you take what you can get.

Some reviewed 'The Master' on their knees, and while I respected its distinctive discordancy - can a movie be at once feverish and glacial? - I was unmoved.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

Then here's to the heartening wassail, Wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.

Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.

Many people begin coming to God once they stop being religious.There's only one master of the heart-Jesus, not religion.

I used to binge-eat and make myself throw up. I was a fat kid. Obviously I didn't quite master the bulimia.

I had a Latin master who, for no rational reason whatsoever - I was a very quiet kid at school - just hated me.

History does not care about the suffering of the individual. Only the outcome of their struggles. -P 462 Master Tozay to Eona

Pretending to care what men think is an art. It takes moments to learn, but lifetimes to master. I'd like to believe I'm an expert.

I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.

I'm not a 'dystopian, futuristic master': I'm a schnook walking the street. It's an insane reality we're living in, and I'm just trying to translate it for myself.

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

The Master has no mind of her own. She works with the mind of the people. She is good to people who are good. She is also good to people who aren't good. This is true goodness. She trusts people who are trustworthy. She also trusts people who aren't trustworthy. This is true trust. The Master's mind is like space. People don't understand her. They look to her and wait. She treats them like her own children.

I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master.

Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

I personally would rather do the Master Cleanse for ten days than just eat salad for six months.

When you master all defensive and offensive aspects of the game and always enjoy the majority of possession, you're sitting in pole position to win.

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his destiny.

Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.

If Christ be anything he must be everything. O rest not till love and faith in Jesus be the master passions of your soul!

Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.

There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master paintings.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

There is only one way fit for a man - Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.

Through the practice of meditation and the auric empowerments and guidance of an enlightened master, you can totally change your karmic destiny.

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 Master Painter.

Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.

Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.

Whatever your craft is, be a master of it. Being half assed at something, people will eventually see through.

If you work with amazing actors, you've got a master class happening in front of you. But [also] it's just acting at the end of the day.

Don't be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That's only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

Pray that I may be very little in my own eyes, and not rob my dear Master of any part of his glory.

With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate.

It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand.

My father - who was a master sergeant and the toughest man I've even known - next to him, Coach Lombardi was a piece of cake.

An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.

You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses.

The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.

The guitar," I said, "will only obey its master." "Yeah," Cole agreed, "but Grace isn't here." He grinned at me slyly.

People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters.