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  • One heart cannot serve two masters. -- R.L. LaFevers
  • One heart cannot serve two masters. -- R.L. LaFevers
  • Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters. -- Alexander the Great
  • It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters. -- Allison Janney
  • [T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present. -- Fritz Stern
  • You not only choose between two ways of life but you choose between two masters. -- Billy Graham
  • Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • The Lord put it clearly: you cannot serve two masters. You have to choose between God and money. -- Pope Francis
  • Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously. -- Virginia Woolf
  • If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
  • The best marriage in the world is two servants in love. The worst marriage in the world is two masters in love. -- Jimmy Evans
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. -- Thomas Merton
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In translation you have to get it right, you have to be precise in what you're doing. You have to attempt what they did in that language - say, in Arabic - and try to accomplish a version of that in English, and you're constantly serving two masters. -- Elliott Colla
  • Always two there are, a master and an apprentice. -- Frank Oz
  • There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave. -- Nikki Giovanni
  • Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • 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
  • 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. -- Jeremy Bentham
  • Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar. -- Robert Frost
  • It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience. -- D. W. Griffith
  • 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
  • Broadly speaking, there are two approaches to crime: the realistically detailed police procedural, usually grim and downbeat, and the more left-field, joyous theatre of ideas in which past masters once specialised. Knowing that I would never be able to handle the former, I set about reviving the latter. -- Christopher Fowler
  • The learning curve on soaps is through the roof because it's a three-camera setup. There's a master and then there's two singles. And the great thing about soaps, and soap actors will tell you, is that when you get your line wrong, they don't re-shoot it. They just cut to the person listening. -- John C. McGinley
  • I'm a writer who stacks cat food for a living. It's true: I have a master's degree in creative writing, I've published two critically successful books, and I get paid to replenish the shelves of my local food co-op with pet food, sponges and toilet paper. Nine days out of 10, I do it quite happily. -- Ali Liebegott
  • Daniel Goleman has proven that two-thirds of the success in business is based upon our Emotional Intelligence as opposed to our IQ or our level of experience. As we look for the next crop of future CEOs, maybe it's time for America's corporations to start interviewing grads from the psychology master's programs rather than the M.B.A. programs. -- Chip Conley
  • I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second. -- John Lasseter
  • To attain the rank of grand master of memory, you must be able to perform three seemingly superhuman feats. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes. There are 36 grand masters of memory in the world. -- Joshua Foer
  • For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can anyone ever distinguish the two? - leaves his job and his beautiful girlfriend behind. He must tell the world the Panopticon has arrived. His masters vow to punish him, and he heads for Moscow in a desperate search for refuge. -- Alex Berenson
  • Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. -- Jeremy Bentham
  • An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries. -- James Dean
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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. -- Baron de Montesquieu
  • 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
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