Unmastered Quotes & Sayings

This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so. — Robert Rauschenberg

Believing something can be done sets the mind in motion to find a way to do it. — David J. Schwartz

Therefore, mobilize vigor to attain what is unattained, to master what is unmastered, to realize what is unrealized. In this way your taking to the spiritual life will not be barren, but fruitful and ever-growing. (Samyutta Nikaya II.29) How — Anonymous

Remember, they hate us as no other nation, for we are to them that which they fear beyond all: women unmastered by men. — Steven Pressfield

Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up. — Casey Stengel

The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that more people will make more plans in such areas. — Thomas Sowell

The fight's here, ice-boy. Don't worry about your boyfriend, worry about yourself. — Julie Kagawa

Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject a controllable and dialectical simulation of the moderately unmastered arousals and regulations of everyday life, in a way that is alternatively vivifying and euphoric. — Brian Sutton-Smith

One of the signs that may tell you that you're in the right place? What you are doing now for a fee you would have done it for free. — Assegid Habtewold

I'd be totally exhausted by mid-afternoon, and I could barely climb the stairs at home. It was particularly alarming because all my life I'd enjoyed doing all my own stunts in shows, taking on every physical challenge. Yet suddenly, I'd become like a very old man. I knew something was wrong, but I had no idea what. — Michael Crawford

I auditioned for so many things - cops, lawyers, doctors and things but they were like, "She just seems too sweet. I don't see that hard side of her." — Christina Hendricks

If the body is unmastered, the mind will remain unmastered. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

The world, that is, of earthquake and cataclysm, cyclone and devastation; the violent matrix, the real world of unmastered, unmasterable physical stress that is entirely inimical to man because of its indifference. Ocean, forest, mountain, weather - these are the inflexible institutions of that world of unquestionable reality which is so far removed from the social institutions which make up our own world that we men must always, whatever our difference, conspire to ignore them. For otherwise we would be forced to acknowledge our incomparable insignificance and the insignificance of those desires that might be the pyrotechnic tigers of our world and yet, under the cold moon and the frigid round dance of the unspeakably alien planets, are nothing but toy animals cut from coloured paper. — Angela Carter

Phury nodded. And if she lives with us, we get to keep the cat. — J.R. Ward

It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States. — Zora Neale Hurston

I don't sleep all that much, but when I do, it's sound. — Gene Simmons

I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them. — Fiona Shaw

I defend peoples' right to do that in a lawful manner, but I have not undertaken that practice myself. — Rick Boucher