Top 25 Masters Quotes of 638 - Page 23

We are not going to succeed because Taliban are masters of guerrilla warfare

We are not going to succeed because Taliban are masters of guerrilla warfare

Warfare, Succeed, Masters

George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose.

Ilka Chase

Should Have, Attention, Masters

Ilka Chase (1945). “Past Imperfect”, Pocket Books of Canada

None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

Idries Shah

Should, Masters, Not Trusting

Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.12, Octagon Press Ltd

Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.

Huston Smith

Reality, Self, Masters

Huston Smith (2009). “The World's Religions, Revised and Updated: A Concise Introduction”, p.21, Harper Collins

The present system is unsustainable. The only question is whether we will master the change or it will master us.

Hillary Clinton

Care, Health Care, Masters

Keep a secret, it's your slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Henry Wilson Allen

Secret, Slave, Masters

He that is master of himself will soon be master of others.

Henry George Bohn

Self, Masters

Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1860). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases”, p.389

There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.

Henry David Thoreau

Perfection, Masters, Workers

Henry David Thoreau (1937). “The selected works of Thoreau”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

Your fate is to be what you are. As mine is to be what I am...your master.

Griffin Jay

Fate, Identity, Masters

"Fictional character: Armand Tesla". "The Return of the Vampire", www.imdb.com. 1943.

It's not like I have a master plan or anything.

Gretchen Mol

Masters, Plans

I'm the master of the wicket!

Gerard Way

Masters

Bruce Smith is a tender master of music, and beautiful lines, and complex thoughts, and fascinating wild personal and cultural references.

Gerald Stern

Beautiful, Lines, Masters

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.

George Washington

Important, Speak, Masters

George Washington (1835). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.280

The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.

George Orwell

Animal, Pleasure, Masters

George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.10, Hamilton Books