Masters Quotes - Page 38

• I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 per annum for receiving his orders. "The smile is very well," said he, catching instantly the passing expression; "but speak too." "I was thinking, sir, that very few masters would trouble themselves to inquire whether or not their paid subordinates were piqued and hurt by their orders.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hurt, Thinking, Expression

  Charlotte Bronte (2014). “The Complete Works Of Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor”, p.184, Harper Collins

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• I’ll spend my life training just for the moment I have my chance at you. I’ll wait until you think I’ve forgotten today. I’ll wait until you think it was just a dumb guild rat’s threat. After I’m a master, you’ll jump at shadows for a while. But after you jump a dozen times and I’m not there, you won’t jump just once, and that’s when I’ll be there. I don’t care if you kill me at the same time. I’ll trade my life for yours.

  Brent Weeks

  Thinking, Waiting, Dumb

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• Depose him,’ said Will Scott, astonished. ‘The Grand Master’s holy office terminates with his life.’ ‘And can nobody think of an answer to that?’ said Will Scott.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Thinking, Office, Answers

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• Tsze-Kung asked, “Is there one word with which to act in accordance throughout a lifetime?” The Master said, “Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

  Confucius

  Done, Want, Lifetime

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• I nodded, chewing my own syrup-soaked bite. "But surely that's not all there is to it. I mean, really? A big picnic? That's Avari's master plan? That makes him sound about as dangerous as Yogi Bear." Tod shrugged. "Yeah. If Yogi were a soul-sucking, body-stealing, boyfriend-snatching, damned-soul-torturing evil demon from another world. Besides, what else could he be planning?

  Rachel Vincent

  Mean, Evil, Soul

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• There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us... It is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it, that counts.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Dark, House, Devil

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.173, Cornell University Press

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• The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Struggle, Reality, Unity

  Thomas Wolfe (2006). “Look Homeward, Angel”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• I have always been absurdly, ridiculously tall. To give you an idea- when we went on school trips to Interesting and Improving Places, the form-master wouldn't say "Meet under the clock tower," or "Meet under the War Memorial," but "Meet under Adams.

  Douglas Adams

  War, School, Ideas

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• The Lord gave the wonderful promise of the free use of His name with the Father in conjunction with doing His works. The disciple who lives only for Jesus' work and kingdom, for His will and honor, will be given the power to appropriate the promise. Anyone grasping the promise only when he wants something very special for himself will be disappointed, because he is making Jesus the servant of his own comfort. But whoever wants to pray the effective prayer of faith because he needs it for the work of the Master will learn it, because he has made himself the servant of his Lord's interests.

  Andrew Murray

  Jesus, Prayer, Father

  "Andrew Murray On Prayer".

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• It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master

  Francis Fukuyama

  Self, Desire, Identity

  Francis Fukuyama (2006). “The End of History and the Last Man”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the author. If you are, in fact, my continuing author, then killing you will end my existence as well. Small loss. Such a life, as your puppet, is not worth living. But… If I destroy you and your dreck script, and I still exist… then my existence will be glorious, for I will become my own master.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Father, Character

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.242, Random House

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• She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. And she was wonderfully unhinged.

  Gary Paulsen

  Book, Thoughtful, Library

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• Did you hear about the recently discovered temple in the Sudan ?" I stared at him. "Yeah. I'm a regular reader of National Geographic." Ol' Frankie's brows quirked. "You wield sarcasm, madam, as well as a master swordsman does." "Gee, thanks." I smiled at him and batted my lashes. Quit flirting . Patrick flicked the command into my head. He sounded half-annoyed, half-amused. I'm not flirting. Quit being cute and likeable. An impossible request. I've always been too adorable for words.

  Michele Bardsley

  Cute, Sarcasm, Flirting

  Michele Bardsley (2006). “I'm the Vampire, That's Why”, p.107, Penguin

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• With practice, you will master your own dreams.

  Lisa McMann

  Dream, Practice

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• Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters who quietly but firmly demand respect.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Children, Rules To Live By

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel”, p.78, Bantam

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• Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Night, Devil

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers (1862). “The Complete Works of Shakespeare: With a Memoir”, p.613, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Kate, perhaps you need to explain to your significant other that he is in no position to give me orders. Last time I checked, his title was Beast Lord, which is a gentle euphemism for a man who strips nude at night and runs around through the woods hunting small woodland creatures. I'm a premier Master of the Dead. I will go where I please.

  Ilona Andrews

  Running, Night, Men

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• A young apprentice applied to a master carpenter for a job. The older man asked him, "Do you know your trade?" "Yes, sir!" the young man replied proudly. "Have you ever made a mistake?" the older man inquired. "No, sir!" the young man answered, feeling certain he would get the job. "Then there's no way I'm going to hire you," said the master carpenter, "because when you make one, you won't know how to fix it.

  Fred Rogers

  Jobs, Mistake, Men

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.59, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• A hush of expectancy descended in the chamber as all waited to hear the request. What treasure could he want? Laren inventoried in her mind all the precious trappings of the castle she could think of -jewels, weapons, art-and she saw that the others must be doing the same. What did the Sacoridians possess that would be good enough for the Eletian prince? "My brother," Graelalea said, "requires many pounds of dark chocolate fudge and Dragon Droppings. We must visit the Master of Chocolate.

  Kristen Britain

  Art, Brother, Dark

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• But the toaster was quite satisfied with itself, thank you. Though it knew from magazines that there were toasters who could toast four slices at a time, it didn't think that the master, who lived alone and seemed to have few friends, would have wanted a toaster of such institutional proportions. With toast, it's quality that matters, not quantity.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Thinking, Quality, Toasters

  Thomas M. Disch (1986). “The brave little toaster: a bedtime story for small appliances”, Doubleday Books for Young Readers

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• We are the masters of our own universe.

  Dan Brown

  Universe

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.136, Random House

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• Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with her new masters to avoid being rejected or, in more dire cases, punished. Then there would be the phase where she would have to sharpen her senses in order to see and hear as acutely as possible so that she could assimilate quickly all the new customs and the words most frequently used by the group she was to become a part of--so that finally, she would be judged on her own merits.

  Laura Esquivel

  Order, Groups, Would Be

  Guillermo Arriaga, F. G. Haghenbeck, Reyna Grande, Laura Esquivel, Javier Valdes (2013). “Atria Español Presents: The Best of Mexican Literature”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.

  Barbara Mertz

  Criminals, Fancy, Ifs

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• The truth was, Azoth hated Azoth. Azoth was a coward, passive, weak, afraid, disloyal. Azoth had hesitated. Master Blint didn’t know it, but the poisons on the needle had killed Azoth. He was Kylar now, and Kylar would be everything Azoth hadn’t dared to be.

  Brent Weeks

  Coward, Would Be, Poison

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• I went away and cried to the Master of the Universe, "What have you done to me? A mind like this I need for a son? A heart I need for a son, a soul I need for a son, compassion I want from my son, righteousness, mercy, strength to suffer and carry pain, that I want from my son, not a mind without a soul!"

  Chaim Potok

  Pain, Heart, Son

  "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok, (p. 264), 1967.

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