Masters Quotes - Page 29

• Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Romance, Soul, Losing

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.342, Dell

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• You do not interrupt a man when he is explaining his master plan after having been soundly defeated. Don't you watch any James Bond Movies?

  Katie MacAlister

  Men, Watches, Defeated

  Katie Macalister (2009). “Crouching Vampire, Hidden Fang: A Dark Ones Novel”, p.215, Penguin

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• It is neither easy nor agreeable to dredge this abyss of viciousness, and yet I think it must be done, because what could be perpetrated yesterday could be attempted again tomorrow, could overwhelm us and our children. One is tempted to turn away with a grimace and close one's mind: this is a temptation one must resist. In fact, the existence of the death squads had a meaning, a message: 'We, the master race, are your destroyers, but you are no better than we are; if we so wish, and we do so wish, we can destroy not only your bodies, but also your souls, just as we have destroyed ours.

  Primo Levi

  Children, Thinking, Race

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• The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Reading, Different, Lexicon

  J M Coetzee (2015). “Diary of a Bad Year”, p.23, Random House

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• A God who counts minutes and pennies, a desperate sensual God, who grunts like a pig. A pig with golden wings, who falls and falls, always belly side up, ready for caresses, that’s him, our master. Come, kiss me.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Fall, Kissing, Pigs

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• Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking them.

  Khalil Gibran

  Law, Delight, Laying Down

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Hair, Jekyll, Faces

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, second edition”, p.64, Broadview Press

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• They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running, she was not trying to escape. She was only standing, weaving from side to side, her eyes fixed upon a nothingness in the wall as if they had struck her a terrible blow upon the head. Her tongue was moving in her mouth, and her eyes seemed to be trying to remember something, and then they remembered and her tongue moved again: "Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Wall, Moving

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.17, Hamilton Books

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• Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become their master, so is contemporary man faced by this incomprehensible, which disorders his calculations.

  Karl Jaspers

  Men, Thinking, Primitive Man

  "Man in the Modern Age (Routledge Revivals)".

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• Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Humility, Practice

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• Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Fate, Winning

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• Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dragons, Names, Lions

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• If you are not setting a trap, then you are probably walking into one. It is the mark of the master to do both at once.

  Jedediah Berry

  Traps, Mark, Walking

  Jedediah Berry (2009). “The Manual of Detection: A Novel”, p.170, Penguin

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• The master was an old Turtle--we used to call him Tortoise--' Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' Alice asked. We called him Tortoise because he taught us,' said the Mock Turtle angrily; 'really you are very dull!' You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple question,' added the Gryphon; and then they both sat silent and looked at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth.

  Lewis Carroll

  Simple, Turtles, Taught Us

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland”, p.57

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• You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.

  Napoleon Hill

  Life, Destiny, Want

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• Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is what matter is for. I am that I am, and the rest is women & wilderness, to be used as I see fit.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Men, What Matters, Self

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2017). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.195, Grove Press

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• O Sultan, my master, if my clothes are ripped and torn it is because your dogs with claws are allowed to tear me.

  Nizar Qabbani

  Dog, Clothes, Tears

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• Worthy character is best forged from a life of consistent, correct choices centered in the teachings of the Master.

  Richard G. Scott

  Teaching, Character, Choices

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• Both Matilda and Lavender were enthralled. It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master. Here was somebody who had brought the art of skulduggery to the highest point of perfection, somebody, moreover, who was willing to risk life and limb in pursuit of her calling. They gazed in wonder at this goddess, and suddenly even the boil on her nose was no longer a blemish but a badge of courage.

  Roald Dahl

  Art, Perfection, Risk

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• Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.

  Salvador Dali

  Paint, Draws, Can Do

  Salvador Dali (2013). “50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.

  Bram Stoker

  Long, Would Be, Should

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.20, Zillmann Publishing

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• The master said you must write what you see / But what I see does not move me / The master answered Change what you see.

  Louise Glück

  Moving, Writing, Doe

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• Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing?

  Aravind Adiga

  Genuine Concern, Loathing, Facade

  "The White Tiger". Book by Aravind Adiga, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2008.

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• There had been a popular joke on Freedom, started by a man named Calder. Looking down from space, he had said, the dominant life forms on Earth were obviously the cereals and other grasses. They occupied all the most desirable and fertile land; and they had tamed insects and animals to care for them. In particular, they had domesticated the bipeds to nurture and cultivate them and to save and plant their seed. Now, watching the farmers, Alex could easily imagine that they were worshiping and genuflecting before their masters.

  Larry Niven

  Men, Animal, Space

  Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven, Michael Flynn (2002). “Fallen Angels”, p.232, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Let's take my truck," Jim said as he hit the gravel. "Less noise." And it has a radio, right?" With tragic concentration Adrian started warming up his voice, sounding like a moose being backstroked by a chesse grater. Jim shook his head at Eddie as the doors opened "How can you stand that racket?" Selective deafness" Teach me,master.

  J.R. Ward

  Voice, Doors, Noise

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