Quotes About Master

Persuasion lives not in him who does not live from his own self, who is son and father, slave and master of what lies around him, of what came before, of what must come after—a thing among things. Persuaded is he who has his life within himself, a soul naked amongst the islands of the blessed (Gorgias). But men look for 'life,' and lose 'life' (St. Matthew).

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.

Intentionality fuels the master's journey. Every master is a master of vision.

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

You are quick, for a dancing master, said Ser Meryn. You are slow, for a knight, Syrio replied.

A fool sings what he will, the master told his anxious princess, "You must not take his word to heart. On the morrow he may remember another song and this one will never be heard again.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence. It is force, and like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

Satan is too hard a master. He would never command as did the Other with divine simplicity: 'Do likewise.' The devil will have no victims resemble him. He permits only a rough caricature, impotent, abject, which has to serve as food for eternal irony, the mordant irony of the depths.

I came, I saw, I concurred.

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

One for the master, And one for my dame, And one for the little boy Who lives in the lane.

There is a master key to success with which no man can fail. Its name is simplicity ... reducing to the simplest possible terms every problem.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame; But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of things as They Are!

James and John wanted the glory, but not the cup of shame; the crown, but not the cross; the role of master, but not servant.

Beauty is the only master to serve.

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience.

The master plan does not have a master plan. Television ultimately finds itself, and after it finds itself, it finds itself changing.

The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.