Instrument Quotes

1109 Instrument quotes by 855 unique authors

A public-school system, if it means the providing of free education for those who desire it, is a noteworthy and beneficent achievement of modern times;… — John Gresham Machen
The phone is an instrument of intrusion into order. It is a threat to control. Just when you think you are alone and safe, the… — Janice Galloway
What is it that makes you want to write songs? In a way you want to stretch yourself into other people’s hearts. You want to… — Keith Richards
The girl doesn’t need a violin,” he added. “She needs to have her hands bound so she can never touch an instrument again. — Julia Quinn
You are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why… — Abraham Verghese
What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a… — Sheena Iyengar
The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers of resilience, self-protection,… — Thomas Wolfe
A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for. — Josephine Baker
The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body — Michel Foucault
Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to any kind of… — Michel Foucault
Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom,… — Milton Friedman
Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid… — Paulo Coelho
The body on the ground is nothing more than a shell, a husk, and I am filled with a sense of peace. Yes, I think.… — R.L. LaFevers
You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try… — Audrey Hepburn
Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a person can learn… — Andrew Weil
This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance. — R.L. LaFevers
Law itself is either suspended, or regarded as an instrument that the state may use in the service of constraining and monitoring a given population;… — Judith Butler
What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the… — David Mitchell
In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make their… — Theodore Roosevelt
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. — Patrick Rothfuss
HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket. — Ambrose Bierce
We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts… — C.S. Lewis
I noticed you the first week. Not just because of how pretty you are, though of course, that played into it. It was the way… — Tammara Webber
A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture,… — Milan Kundera
myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth — Anais Nin

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