Masters Quotes

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

I always got very excited about the Masters as a kid. I could hardly wait until the Wednesday when you'd get the BBC's preview. And I'd then be glued to the screen until Sunday night.

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

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.

When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.

To be able to hold all four majors - the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, PGA - all concurrently I think is the Grand Slam. But a lot of people have a different opinions on that. People think you have to win it in the same calendar year.

During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions.

We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business.

Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.

Good servants frequently make good masters.

Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.

Of the seven experiments, the ones that have been most investigated so far have been the pets. The dogs who know when their masters for coming home, and the sense of being stared at.

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

Ideals are the worlds masters.

All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.

We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.

It's not that there are no masters, but that there are many. And the job of the solicitor general is to balance those masters and to accommodate them all, each in their proper places, wisely and well and in so doing to represent the people of the United States.

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

That's what makes the Ryder Cup in golf so much better than the Masters or the U.S. Open. To be a part of something that is not about personal achievement, but about representing everyone and sharing it with the whole country, it's wonderful.

This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers.

The story of the week is you have got to putt well to win the Masters and I haven't putted well.