There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
David Herbert Lawrence

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
David Herbert Lawrence

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.
Barbara Jordan

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Elizabeth Bishop

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Rebecca West

I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program.
Mark Spitz

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.
Alberto Giacometti

He is great enough that is his own master.
Joseph Hall

Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.
Cliff Burton

Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things.
Algernon Charles Swinburne

I was a master at keeping my feelings in.
Mark David Chapman

Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.
Pierre Corneille

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
Samuel Richardson

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Ben Jonson

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.
Bryant H. McGill

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
Pierre Corneille

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it.
Max von Sydow

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
Natalie Clifford Barney