Instruments Quotes · Page 17

This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.

— Anonymous

Samples are kind of my instrument of choice.

— Girl Talk

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

— Mike Figgis

There's so much fun you can have with your instruments that no one ever taught you.

— Michael Giacchino

If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.

— Jeff VanderMeer

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

— George Santayana

We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.

— Jerrold Nadler

Like most technology, the internet has mixed effects. It's a neutral instrument.

— Noam Chomsky

And with the grace of Baptism and of Eucharistic Communion I can become an instrument of God's mercy, of that beautiful mercy…

— Pope Francis

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

— John Quincy Adams

While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.

— Yanni

Seems to me that there is no better way to experience the depth of loss than after the fact. No more powerful…

— Vera Nazarian

I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

— Abbey Lincoln

We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.

— Rudolf Steiner

I found a way to connect with lots of instruments rather than just fixating on one of them. I just loved making…

— Jack Garratt

I took four years of violin, but got bored of it - over the years, I've been ADD with instruments. The only…

— Mister Lies

A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms,…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam…

— Martin Luther

For me I feel close to the Savior when I can do in a small way for someone else, what He would…

— Barbara W. Winder

A lot of it starts with playing instruments and working with other people. Some of the new generation is doing it on…

— Ray Parker, Jr

So I think that is one of the reasons we can face some regional problems, which are very difficult, very dramatic and…

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a…

— Charles A. Reich

The invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents,…

— James Madison

The corporate State considers that private enterprise in the sphere of production is the most effective and useful instrument in the interest…

— Benito Mussolini

Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the…

— Vincent Van Gogh

. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an [adaptation]…

— Laurie Anderson

I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property…

— Sigmund Freud

My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution.…

— George Bernard Shaw

People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

I submit my tongue as an instrument of righteousness when I make it bless them that curse me and pray for them…

— Dallas Willard

My fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential…

— George Washington

The neuro-biology of playing a musical instrument is completely scientific, but it’s also an absolute miracle, that you’re taking basically a calcium…

— Bob Brozman

My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

— Paul Klee

External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.

— Yusef Lateef

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

— Bobby McFerrin

The most exciting science requires the most complex instruments.

— Barry Barish

Money's an instrument. The Bible says money answereth all things.

— Mike Murdock

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

— Paul McCartney

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.

— Satyajit Ray

Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

— Ambrose Bierce