Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
If nobody can sell mortgage-backed securities based on trillions of dollars of unpayable instruments, there's a lot less risk in the overall… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge. — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
That change happened about 1991. It was not possible to transfer the Expanded Instrument System to the computer until then, when 16-bit… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
The government can reasonably rely on debt ratings when it forms programs to lend money to buyers of otherwise unattractive debt instruments. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
I'm just a one-instrument player. I have been known to play a blender, but I basically play - just play the violin. — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time. — James Agee Copy Share Image
A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument. — Abbie Cornish Copy Share Image
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument Kyoto Protocol of global governance,"..."By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument,… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing...… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Egoism will be destroyed, if you constantly tell yourself, 'It is He, not I','He is the force, I am but the instrument'.… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
We all know that there are many people that can play the instrument perfectly today, up and down with technical perfection, but… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
Mea culpa, mea culpa. MIT and Wharton and University of Chicago created the financial engineering instruments, which, like Samson and Delilah, blinded… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
When you learn an instrument, it takes an awful lot of time to just learn the scales, and then eventually when you… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Music will still be a big part of our environment. The Bible talks about choirs of angels and how there is singing… — David Berg Copy Share Image
Cloud-flying requires practice, even if you have every modern instrument, and unless you keep calm and collected you will get into trouble… — Charles Rumney Samson Copy Share Image
It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I think animation is a very truthful way to express your thoughts, because the process is very direct. That's what I've always… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Flute was actually my first instrument. I had a year of lessons and then stopped after feeling like I was going to… — Rachael Yamagata 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
I need boundaries. In the modern studio there are a bunch of instruments around me, and I can simulate anything I can't… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a… — Morton Feldman Copy Share Image
People talk about innovations and evolutions and that kind of thing; I don't understand about that nonsense. It's like, all instruments are… — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
I love traditional instruments, though of course they are anachronisms. Satellites run around our planet, but we still play bassoons. It's ridiculous! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Wall Street got drunk and now it's got a hangover. And the question is, how long will it sober up and not… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
If I'd thought, "I can't really play this instrument," I wouldn't have done it! But I didn't care, you know. I didn't… — David Toop Copy Share Image
I don't think Seurat would have been aware of the dots - he would have been aware of what he was trying… — Frank Auerbach Copy Share Image
I think it's important to learn instruments, whenever one has a little space. Be eager to learn and love your instrument. — Nneka Copy Share Image
I generally use a lot of analog instruments, a few synths from the '80s like the Roland Juno-106, and an old Fender… — Gus Dapperton Copy Share Image
Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters. — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Man is the only creature disposed to kill huge numbers of members of his own species, and his instrument is usually the… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
