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Quotes About Master

The Master: The cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about.
~ Terrance Dicks
God is the Author and the Creator.
~ Terry James
The ordinary man is destined for service, and he has no objection to be an instrument, if he feels that a master guides him.
~ Theodor Mommsen
If philosophy is still necessary, it is so only in the way it has been from time immemorial: as critique, as resistance to the expanding heteronomy, even if only as thought's powerless attempt to remain its own master and to convict of untruth, by their own criteria, both a fabricated mythology and a conniving, resigned acquiescence.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
We Progressives believe that the people have the right and the duty to protect themselves and their own welfare; that human rights are supreme over all other rights; that wealth should be the servant, not the master, of the people. We believe that if representative government does not absolutely represent the people it is not representative government at all.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The goal of the working class is liberation from exploitation. This goal is not reached and cannot be reached by a new directing and governing class substituting itself for the bourgeoisie. It is only realized by the workers themselves being master over production. These
~ Noam Chomsky
He was, in his way, as close to a Zen master as I've ever had, and all of us who fell under his influence began with his style and eventually ended up with our own.
~ Nora Ephron
Every one can master a grief but he that has it. —William Shakespeare
~ Nora Roberts
Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master and nobody had noticed. Still, I'm doing the little FAX thing. I write little HAIKU things and FAX them around to everyone. When I pass people in the hall at work, I get totally ZEN right in everyone's hostile little FACE.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
El maestro que logre apartar las posesiones de mi camino me liberará.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
PREPARE TO FIRE ALL CANNONS," Bones says—his voice warping so that it has a strange, hard-angle accent to it. "COMMENTARY: I SAY WE BLAST THE MEATBAG AND SAVE YOU THE TROUBLE, MASTER.
~ Chuck Wendig
It's not easy being a good Master, and we all work at it. You're having trouble balancing the power of your position with the grace and love that must accompany that power. I want to get you the help you need to start to deal with those issues from the inside out.
~ Claire Thompson
How does one address... the master of the vampire executioners? My lord? Your grace? Your stakeness?
~ Colleen Gleason
Maybe everything the slave catcher said was true, Cora thought, every justification, and the sons of Ham were cursed and the slave master performed the Lord's will. And maybe he was just a man talking to an outhouse door, waiting for someone to wipe her ass.
~ Colson Whitehead
The girl's vulgarities reminded Cora of the plantation and the stream of oaths delivered by the hands when master's eye was not on them. The small rebellion of servants everywhere.
~ Colson Whitehead
To undertake executions for the master executioner [Heaven] is like hewing wood for the master carpenter.Whoever undertakes to hew wood for the master carpenter rarely escapes injuring his own hands.
~ Lao Tzu
If you can master peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for Stew, I'd be really impressed. "Peanut butter sticks to the bread and rips it apart. It's stupid.
~ Larissa Ione
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny.
~ Lascelles Abercrombie
spare his own life by beheading his master.
~ Laurence Bergreen
asked his master for forgiveness, but received none.
~ Laurence Bergreen
As we know, bears hibernate in caves. They appear almost lifeless. This is an analog to the practices of ancient shamans, and to Sufis who practice the forty-day halvet (retreat), in which the Shaman would enter a cave, have an experience of dying, explore the spiritual realms, and then is reborn as the Initiate or Master (just as the bear is reborn each spring as it "wakes up" and leaves its cave).
~ Laurence Galian
The 'man' from 'Sarman' relates to heredity, or a particular family. It also refers to the receptacle of an heirloom. The 'Sar' of 'Sarman' is defined as 'head.' In this sense, the 'head' is meant both literally as a part of the body, and in the meaning of elder one or master. Therefore, we may tentatively conclude that 'Sarman' means 'The Sovereign Receptacle of the Sacred.' Or, an alternative reading would be 'Those Whose Heads are Priceless.
~ Laurence Galian
You know where every impulse leads. Master all those that would carry you into situations you know and despise. If you cannot do that, you will never do anything.
~ Cesare Pavese