The Two Masters Quotes

#1. In order to protect himself from force, man was obliged to submit to justice. Justice or force: he was compelled to choose between the two masters, so little are we made to be independent.

Luc De Clapiers

#2. Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#3. I had a Masters of Fine Arts, but so did thousands of other graduates every year, and we were all competing for the same jobs. I realistically didn't expect to become a teacher, and after two or three years, I accepted defeat.

Kurt Wagner

#4. Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders ... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women - or we believe in equality.

Sonia Johnson

#5. Simonides of Amorgos says, "Women are the greatest evil God ever created: if they sometimes seem useful, they soon change into trouble for their masters." For Hipponax: "There are but two days in life when your wife brings you joy: her wedding day and her funeral.

Simone De Beauvoir

#6. We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

Montesquieu

#7. 24No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

Anonymous

#8. The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#9. We must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak of the two in the same breath.

Richard J. Foster

#10. Any watching the battle would have found no breath in the next few blurring moments. Never had the Underdark witnessed such a vicious fight as when these two masters of the blade each attacked the demon possessing the other - and himself.

R.A. Salvatore

#11. I'm coming to believe that there are two kinds of people ... those who choose to be masters of their own fate and those who wait in chairs while other dance. I would rather be one of the former than the latter.

Lisa Kleypas

#12. To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.

Luc De Clapiers

#13. There's no question almost press secretaries talk about the sense of serving two masters. On the one hand you want to protect the president's interests, and you represent his interests to the press. And the press is a proxy for the American people.

Dee Dee Myers

#14. I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for so long it seems to me that I have not dwelt in my native region. The sun, the clouds, the snow, the trees say not so much to me. You cannot serve two masters.

Henry David Thoreau

#15. The Lord put it clearly: you cannot serve two masters. You have to choose between God and money.

Pope Francis

#16. The best marriage in the world is two servants in love. The worst marriage in the world is two masters in love.

Jimmy Evans

#17. Verily a man cannot serve two masters. And I consider the foundation or destruction of a religion far greater than the foundation or destruction of a state, let alone a party.

Adolf Hitler

#18. Bless ... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows.

Emily Carr

#19. Now no one can be the slave of two masters

Stephen Schwartz

#20. An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.

James Dean

#21. The man that is popular with the world is not a friend of Jesus. You cannot serve two masters. The world hates Christ, and if you are a friend of the world you cannot be a friend of His. You may be sure that something is wrong with you when everybody is your friend.

Dwight L. Moody

#22. Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the world, where slaves have been educated for freedom by their task-masters?

William Lloyd Garrison

#23. The bravest thing you'll ever do is walk into a booth every few years, where no one can see you, and press a button, to say which of two slave-masters you'd rather be owned by.

Larken Rose

#24. We need not suppose that we can serve two masters. If we try, we may be sure of one thing- that our master will not be the Christ, for He will not accept us on those terms.

Mark E. Peterson

#25. If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#26. You have wavered uncertainly between two systems, between drawing and coloring, between the painstaking phlegm, the stiff precision, of the old German masters, and the dazzling ardor, the happy fertility, of the Italian painters.

Honore De Balzac

#27. I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life.

Vincent Piazza

#28. It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.

Allison Janney

#29. Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave.

Charles Caleb Colton

#30. [T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present.

Fritz Stern

#31. There were nine dogs on the Titanic. They stayed in kennels, but their owners could take them out onto the decks for walks. Two Pomeranians and one Pekingese survived with their masters.

Lauren Tarshis

#32. Jeremy Bentham opened his Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation with the famous sentence Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.

Daniel Kahneman

#33. We need to not let food master us and take the throne of our lives. We need to make food submit to us, rather than us submitting to food. No one can serve two masters. We cannot serve money and God, and we cannot serve food and God.

Lisa Bedrick

#34. Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.

Virginia Woolf

#35. It was a tough year for me, '89, losing two Slam finals and losing another five finals. It wasn't until I won the Masters, or what's now called the ATP Finals, that things changed again. Suddenly I won seven tournaments in 1990 and became No. 1.

Stefan Edberg

#36. The experience at the Masters was two years ago, and I am eager to win again this year so I can return to Augusta National in 2016.

Guan Tianlang

#37. You can't follow two Masters at the same time: Either you recognise this world as your Master Or you recognise God as your Master! You have entered your body due to the Order

Elisabeth Rainer

#38. No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.

Anonymous

#39. if a man did have two masters he should despise one but be devoted to the other.

Dane Brown

#40. For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their masters in the midst of brutal injustice and shameful humiliation - and yet out of a bottomless vitality our people continue to thrive and develop.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#41. 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