Master Quotes - page 4

I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology. (Frederick Reines)
I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress. View quote
Harriet Ann Jacobs
It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it. View quote
Max von Sydow
Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it. View quote
Vanessa Marcil
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life. View quote
Charles Darwin
It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn't until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana's 'head and master rule,' that the husband was head and master of the house. View quote
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same. View quote
Martha Gellhorn
Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion ? View quote
Frank Zappa
Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future. (Ba Jin)
Master and slave wear the yoke together. Anarchy is the only true freedom. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development of the human soul; the emergence of the New Man who will no longer be the victim of events but, thanks to his clarity of vision, will become able to direct and to mold the future of mankind. View quote
Maria Montessori
An individualist is a man who says: "I'll not run anyone's life – nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule nor be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone – nor sacrifice anyone to myself." View quote
Ayn Rand
Whoever uncouples the religious and the social life has not understood Jesus. Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master. View quote
Walter Rauschenbusch
Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master. View quote
H. Beam Piper
Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game. View quote
Gary Gygax
Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions. View quote
William O. Douglas
Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master. View quote
Freda Adler
Fire is the best of servents; but what a master! (Thomas Carlyle)
The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not indeed to a visible master, but to the past, to the spirits of his dead forefathers, who haunt his steps from birth to death, and rule him with a rod of iron. View quote
James Frazer
But the great Master said, "I see No best in kind, but in degree; I gave a various gift to each, To charm, to strengthen, and to teach. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The nation becomes the master of its fate not only when it has many good sons, but also when it possesses enough strength to restrain its bad ones. View quote
Roman Dmowski
Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success. View quote
Bruce Lee