Instrument Quotes
1109 quotes by 879 authors
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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs,…
— Hannah Arendt
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I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
— Francis of Assisi
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It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will…
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of…
— Lord Acton
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Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them…
— Ansel Adams
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
— John Adams
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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still…
— John Adams
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My body is an instrument for me to use.
— Emmanuelle Beart
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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.
— Berenice Abbott
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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium…
— Walter Benjamin
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Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
— Jeremy Bentham
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As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is…
— Annie Besant
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Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law…
— Robert Bolt
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
— Samuel Butler
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