Elizabeth Keckley Quotes

Nobody has a right to whip me but my own master, and nobody shall do so if I can prevent it.

Elizabeth Keckley

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• Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Living
  • Master
  • Slaves

• A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Speech
  • Master
  • Policies

• I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Watch her disappear into a role; watch what she does.'

  

  Barbara Rosenblat
  • Role
  • Master
  • Disappear

• I don't know if I'll ever make rap music, but I just like people who are like, 'I am going to just find the medium that's best for this idea and master it and do that.'

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Idea
  • Rap

• Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Powerful
  • Acting
  • Revolution

• Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Artist
  • Master
  • Material

• When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Changes

• I learned that I could control my life. You are the master of your fate. . . you are the captain of your soul. I took control and went to my space. . . My space. . . the universal energy. . . I tapped into that space of divine flow, where all beings, all things are connected. That space is real. You cannot have a meaningful life without having spiritual self-reflection. Know who you are and why you are here. When you tap into that space, divine flow, that universal energy, you become untouchable in what you are called to do.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Real
  • Why

• Material success is rewarding and a lot of fun, but it's not the most important thing in my life because I know when this is all over, the Master isn't going to ask me how many things I owned or how many television shows I did. I think the questions will be, What did I do to make a difference? Did I learn to live with love in my heart?

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Important
  • Live

• To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hard
  • Bitter
  • Master

• The reason man may become the master of his own destiny is because he has the power to influence his own subconscious mind.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • May
  • Power

• Richard Lewis is the master at taking a joke that he's told a million times in a row in the past year, on the road, and making it look like he's pulling it out of thin air.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Past
  • Air
  • Road

• We are all salesman regardless of our calling. But not all of us are Master Salesmen.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Master
  • Regardless
  • Salesman

• [Yorgos Lanthimos] is really a master I feel, I really do.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Master
  • Yorgos Lanthimos

• He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.

  

  William R. Alger
  • Opinions
  • Master
  • Bigot

• A mountain is the best medicine for a troubled mind. Seldom does man ponder his own insignificance. He thinks he is master of all things. He thinks the world is his without bonds. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Only when he tramps the mountains alone, communing with nature, observing other insignificant creatures about him, to come and go as he will, does he awaken to his own short-lived presence on earth.

  

  Finis Mitchell
  • World
  • Mind
  • Truth

• I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I dont believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Property
  • Don't Believe
  • Wealthy

• The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow ALL the governed an equal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Government
  • Voice
  • Master

• Chad Michael Ward is a master of the storytelling craft. His imagery, both still and moving, reaches deep into the darkest corners of the mind, combining the macabre and the sensuous Revealing humanity's secret daydream atrocities. CMW taps into our most excitable of emotions with a blend of fear and human sexuality. Like an erotic car accident we can not look away from.

  

  Dave Navarro Jane's Addiction
  • Emotions
  • Master
  • Storytelling

• The man who has dedicated himself to the success of the protect, the master builder, no longer has any freedom: his conduct is now determined altogether by the constraining force of the end. Logically, therefore, he is bound to require at every moment from his companions whatever will best serve that end, and he demands of them imperiously whatever he thinks is of that nature. This imperiousness, though to immediate view that of the master, springs ultimately from the project itself, for it is the project which is in command. In the eyes of those under him, however, it is the master who hustles them, and they think him inhuman by reason of his disregard of their moods and personalities and his inability to see them other than as servants of the project (like himself).

  

  Bertrand de Jouvenel
  • Success
  • Freedom
  • Force

• The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Together
  • Impulse

• There are lots of people in the world whose existence doesn't revolve around American culture.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • People
  • World
  • Culture

• Do you mean am I worried about people seeing me with my jeans off? Sure. Sometimes people are overcome. They fall down. They hit their heads. It's worrying.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • People
  • Mean
  • Sometimes

• Nobody has a right to whip me but my own master, and nobody shall do so if I can prevent it.

  

  Elizabeth Keckley
  • Master
  • Prevent
  • Whip