After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
The critical sense is so far from frequent that it is absolutely rare, and the possession of the cluster of qualities that… — Henry James Copy Share Image
There's something fundamental to the harp that has retained its appeal my whole life. It's an instrument I am just in love… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
Language conveys a certain power. It is one of the instruments of domination. It is carefully guarded by the superior people because… — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is a reason that there is no fool piece on the chessboard. What action, a fool? What strategy, a fool?… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of… — J. Boone Copy Share Image
Better use has been made of association and this powerful instrument of action has been applied for more varied aims in America… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are… — Kevin Eubanks Copy Share Image
The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People often say that blindness sharpens hearing, but I don't think this is so. My ears were hearing no better, but I… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
Oh, a man with a guitar is nothing compared to a man with a cello! Girls really like the way that we… — Eicca Toppinen Copy Share Image
The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
Historical research to this day remains unorganized, and the historian is expected to make his own instruments or do without them; and… — Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier Copy Share Image
Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Without the instruments and accumulated knowledge of the natural sciences... humans are trapped in a cognitive prison. They are like intelligent fish… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change. — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's… — Chris Cornell Copy Share Image
It's essential to growth. It's essential to maturity. It's essential for equipping you, training you, so that you might be an available,… — Howard G. Hendricks Copy Share Image
