A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.
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Quotes tagged ‘Master’
If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world.
— Paul Thomas Anderson, Lancaster Dodd, Philip Seymour Hoffman, imdb.com
Obi-Wan: Why do I get the feeling you're going to be the death of me? Anakin: Don't say that, master. You're the closest thing I have to a father.
— Jonathan Hales, George Lucas, Obi Wan Kenobi, Ewan McGregor, imdb.com
Thad Castle: The teacher's become the master. Harmon Tedesco: What? Thad Castle: I said the teacher's become the blaster. Harmon Tedesco: I literally have no idea what you're trying to say me right now, man.
— Drew Hancock, J.D. Ryznar, Chester Tam, Thad Castle, Alan Ritchson, imdb.com
See, downtown, at my internship, or at Yale, I’m the lucky orphan child whose fate depends on being one of the good negroes, and never losing my cool or saying what I actually think, or, God forbid, being me. On the mic, I’m the master of my destiny. And I love it.
Master: They called me master. Master's Wife: Oh, really? Well. wait until you see what I'm gonna call you!
— Mick Garris, Neil Cuthbert, David Kirschner, Master, Garry Marshall, imdb.com
You might be a Time Master, but I’m a master of time. And I play a far deeper game than you could ever hope to comprehend.
— Cortney Norris, Anderson MacKenzie, Vandal Savage, Casper Crump, imdb.com
No one in this city has only one master.
Slavery was always a good offer to a master.
Money is, in some respects, like fire. It is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
Always two, there are. No more, no less. A master and an apprentice.
The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.
When we’re not aware of what we’re thinking, we’re very likely to repeat to ourselves the same dominant negative thoughts until we master them.
But, my masters, I must have it left [stopped], for I must have the gentleman to hale and draw [work] with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. What, let us show ourselves all to be of a company and let us not give occasion to the enemy to rejoice at our decay and overthrow. I would know…
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of human rights
I prayed all night long for my master. Till the first of March; and all the time he was bringing people to look at me, and trying to sell me. I changed my prayer. First of March I began to pray, 'Oh Lord, if you ain't never going to change that man's heart, kill him, Lord, and take him out of the wa…
Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
— Plato, amazon.com