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Master Quotes

I am here to do your bidding, Master. I am your slave, and you will reward me, for I shall be faithful.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 8. When Dracula arrives in England, Renfield escapes from his cell and runs naked to Carfax Abbey and cries this this out to Dracula, submitting to him.

“Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you. You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!”

– Mary Shelley

Frankenstein, Chapter 20. The monster, after Victor tells him he will never create another creature like him equal in deformity and wickedness.

The president is a master of the put down. He is a master of division. And I would argue that division will carry you so far in the world of politics.

– Mark Sanford

On Donald Trump.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

– Gustave Flaubert

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

– Gretchen Mol

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

– Henry Miller

We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand.

– Henry L. Stimson

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.

– Josiah Gilbert Holland

You don’t master your fear. You’re not able to say, ‘I’m not going to be scared.’ But what you can do is say, ‘OK, I’m very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.’

– Ingrid Betancourt

Energy is called ‘the master resource’ for a reason.

– John Barrasso

Lucifer is a master at gradual deception.

– Joseph B. Wirthlin

Occasionally a roast master needs to get out of Dodge.

– Jeff Ross

The master plan does not have a master plan. Television ultimately finds itself, and after it finds itself, it finds itself changing.

– Joss Whedon

Every one of us is, even from his mother’s womb, a master craftsman of idols.

– John Calvin

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

– Jean de la Bruyere

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

– James A. Garfield

Chairman Greenspan is, of course, a master.

– Ben Bernanke

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

– Abraham Lincoln

If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.

– Jupiter Hammon

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

– Blaise Pascal

To the Master’s honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton’s ground.

– Albert Einstein

‘The Gardener’ is more than a marvellous collection of images by a master photographer.

– John Burnside

Vince Vaughn is a master improviser.

– Alan Tudyk

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

– Albert Camus

I would say that a lot of the characters I’ve been attracted to are very vulnerable and they expose themselves emotionally. Not so much in ‘The Fighter,’ not so much in ‘The Master’ – I think those are different.

– Amy Adams

I just write what comes along. I don’t have a detailed master plan.

– Christopher Buckley

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

– Alan Lakein

The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.

– Audre Lorde

A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

– A. J. P. Taylor

Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes.

– Bradley Whitford

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