Master Quotes

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it.

We didn't care if we were well-liked as long as the movies were good. We served the movie - that was our master at Miramax. In our second incarnation, the movie is still the master but we're getting the same results in more subtle ways.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.

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.

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

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.

If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

You are the master of your environment. You've got your own head, your own mind. So once you figure out what you want for yourself, you have to create the proper environment to make sure you can live out all the things you want.

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

When first we met we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master.

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.

I was a master at keeping my feelings in.

Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Let the master praise him, and say, "Here ye do well." For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.

Ry Cooder for me is a master, a great master that has a wonderful feel for Cuban music. He's also paid tribute my talent a bit, even though I don't know half of what he knows.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

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.