Instrument Quotes

1109 Instrument quotes by 855 unique authors

Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an… — Barbara Kingsolver
Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real… — Saul Bellow
Lawyers make nothing but confusion...A lawyer is an instrument of the devil. In general, he's a fiendish idiot, banking on the stupidity of people much… — Thomas Bernhard
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. — Dorothea Lange
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt… — Ernest Hemingway
The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as… — Jane Austen
You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch… — Julian Barnes
Music- what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon! — Maria von Trapp
The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for… — C.S. Lewis
You can indulge your righteous rage but the things it comes out of are pretty cheap. The trick is to make yourself an instrument of… — Norman Mailer
But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the… — Paulo Coelho
Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two… — Ambrose Bierce
No woman is a more vibrant instrument in the hands of the Lord than a woman of God who is thrilled to be who she… — Sheri L. Dew
A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even… — Jorge Luis Borges
Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good. — Aaron Sorkin
At every moment, each instrument knew what to play. Its little bit. But none could see the whole thing like this, all at once, only… — Janet Fitch
But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention, has been substituted… — Michel Foucault
Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque… — Roland Barthes
Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and… — Dan Brown
I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction… — Adrienne Rich
When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the… — Thomas Moore
No, no, don't let my vulnerable heart share in this sacrifice to lust! Let him disgust me before pleasing me! Let him be what others… — Rachilde
You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity… — Dale Carnegie
There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing… — Alice Sebold
This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction." "That's kind of extreme" said Dante… — Richelle Mead

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