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Masterful Quotes (page 35)

Anton Chekhov quote: "Only during hard times do people come to understand how..."
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts. Anton Chekhov
And blessed be the first sweet suffering that I felt in being conjoined with love and the bow and the shafts with which I was pierced, and the wounds that run to the depths of my hear? any man who loves this poem as I do, must be my master... And any man who feels as I do about these words must be my drinking companion. Salman Rushdie
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
Rebecca West quote: "It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must..."
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. Rebecca West
Man is not an omipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at the moment. The world we live in is made of an immensely complex and mysterious tissue about which we know very little and which we must treat with utmost humility. Vaclav Havel
Bob Dylan quote: "In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand. In..."
In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand. In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand. Bob Dylan
He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars. Jack London
What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and the impotent, are my masters? What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree and to obey? Ayn Rand
BE HAPPY WITH WHAT YOU’VE GOT, IS THAT THE IDEA? “That’s about the size of it, master. A good god line, that. Don’t give ’em too much and tell ’em to be happy with it. Jam tomorrow, see.” THIS IS WRONG. Death hesitated. I MEAN…IT’S RIGHT TO BE HAPPY WITH WHAT YOU’VE GOT. BUT YOU’VE GOT TO HAVE SOMETHING TO BE HAPPY ABOUT HAVING. THERE’S NO POINT IN BEING HAPPY ABOUT HAVING NOTHING. Terry Prachett
Victor Hugo quote: "But, reverend master, it is not sufficient to pass one's life,..."
But, reverend master, it is not sufficient to pass one's life, one must earn the means for life. Victor Hugo
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Christopher Marlowe quote: "Look, look, master, here comes two religious caterpillars."
Look, look, master, here comes two religious caterpillars. Christopher Marlowe
I make no other answer than the act, the Master said: "The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact." [XXIV] Dante Alighieri
Love-that which biologists, nervous about being misunderstood call "attachment"-fuels the bond between dog and master or mistress. John Bradshaw
The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, “To provide touches of color in rooms with all-white walls.” Another one said, “To describe blow-jobs artistically. Kurt Vonnegut

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