Masters Quotes
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[On refusing to be silenced:] I do not pretend to be John the Baptist rebuking the Pharisees. I do not claim to be Nathan upbraiding David. I aspire only to be Balaam's ass, castigating his master.
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The masters and grandmasters can be divided into three groups - the inveterate time trouble merchants, those who sometimes get into trouble, and those for whom the phenomenon is a very rare occurence.
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Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in.
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If we had the consciousness of a cat or a dog, we would have it in us to become perfect Zen masters. We could gnaw on a bone, take a nap, play with a spider until we killed it, get our litter just right, and be innocently and serenely present. Meaning would mean nothing to us, nor would we need it to mean anything. We would be free, and we would be spared. But, we are human beings, and we posses that odd duck – human consciousness.
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Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.
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Verily a man cannot serve two masters. And I consider the foundation or destruction of a religion far greater than the foundation or destruction of a state, let alone a party.
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Everyone knows what the Masters is, even if you're a non-golfer. People know what Wimbledon is. They know what the Super Bowl is. There are certain events that people just know about.
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I don't have a grand master plan, but I try to be thoughtful when I can and also silly. It's part of the fun.
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Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.
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How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.
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Sad to say I’m missing the Masters. Thanks to the fans for so many kind wishes.
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Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.
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Death is the gate of life. Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace. You will find something far greater in the woods than you will find in books. Stones and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.
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Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
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Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly master of the subject.
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You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.
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Follow the masters! But why should one follow them? The only reason they are masters is that they didn't follow anybody!
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The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer.
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I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.
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In translation you have to get it right, you have to be precise in what you're doing. You have to attempt what they did in that language - say, in Arabic - and try to accomplish a version of that in English, and you're constantly serving two masters.
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Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.
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No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
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The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters.
