#master

I am a master of logic and a powerfully convincing debater. In fact, against my better judgment, I can talk myself out of doing anything. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#debate #dialogue #funny #humor #judgement

The clothes you're wearing, the room, the house, the city that you're in. Everything in it started out in the human imagination. Your lives, your personalities, your whole world. All invented. All made up. All the wars, the romances. The masterpieces and the machines. And there's nothing here but a funny little twist of amino acids, playing a marvelous game of pretend. ↗

— Alan Moore

#cities #clothes #houses #life #machines

Smartass Disciple: If there were two masters, which one should I listen to? Master of Stupidity: Use the ears to the one who looks so stupid, eyes to else. ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #master #truth #which-one #humor

When first we met we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master. ↗

— Robert Bridges

#first #guess #hard #love #master

Ticketmaster saying that their fee is a "convenience" is like a rapist calling his raping a "favor ↗

— Andy Ostrom

#concert #entertainment #etiquette #music #ticketmaster

No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for "Before Coffee. ↗

— Cherise Sinclair

#coffee #master-of-the-mountain #rewriting-history #coffee

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#temptation

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#self-mastery #will-power #justice

Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#languages #literature #literature-quotes #masters #philosophy

Never forget that, at the most, the teacher can give you fifteen percent of the art. The rest you have to get for yourself through practise and hard work. I can show you the path but I can not walk it for you. ↗

— Master Tan Soh Tin

#martial-arts #master-iain-armstrong #art