Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lleyton Hewitt

With my baby due in the next two weeks, it is not possible for me to come. I wish the event well and am sure it will be a great success and I hope to qualify for next year's Masters Cup in Shanghai,

William Shakespeare

We cannot all be masters.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon.

Charlaine Harris

It's hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing is laying one on you.

Charlaine Harris

What are you, Zen Master Fang?

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Methods are the masters of masters.

Charles Hermite

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

Charles Hermite

In mathematics our role is more that of servant than master.

William Shakespeare

Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I; every man to his business.

William Shakespeare

My master hath been an honorable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him which gentlemen have.

I maintain that the past record of my race is a true index of the feelings which today animate them. They bear toward their former masters no revengeful thoughts, no hatreds, no animosities. They aim not to elevate themselves by sacrificing one single interest of their white fellow-citizens.

William Shakespeare

To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.

Catherine Fisher

I trust you, Jared," she whispered. "I always did. I love you, Master.

Carl Honore

Fast isn't turning us into Masters of the Universe, It's turning us into Cheech and Chong.

Bertrand Russell

The power of thought, the vast regions it can master.

Elizabeth I

Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy, scraping grasper, nor a strait fast-holding prince, nor yet a master; my heart was never set on worldly goods, but only for my subjects' good.

Elizabeth I

I will have but one mistress and no master

Barbara Deming

The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

James Whistler

The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.

Bernard of Clairvaux

I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

Bernard of Clairvaux

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

Thongchai Jaidee

To play all four rounds at the Masters would be one of the greatest achievements of my career.

Paul Robeson

Yes, I heard my people singing!--in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews--and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech.

Alan Keyes

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.

Charlotte Bronte

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself.

Charles Caleb Colton

put on the livery of the best master only to serve the worst.

Charles Spurgeon

Let us measure ourselves by our Master, and not by our fellow-servants : then pride will be impossible.

Alan Watts

To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen.

Alan Watts

The real Zen of the old Chinese masters was wu-shih, or "no fuss."

Bernhard Langer

I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.

Edward Gibbon

Bad roads and indifferent inns, ... the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind - innkeepers, post-masters, and custom house officers.