Instruments Quotes

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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
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
These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are… — William Henry Ashley
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. — Francis of Assisi
In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes… — Charles Babbage
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
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
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
I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello. — Roger Bannister
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. — John Adams
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
My body is an instrument for me to use. — Emmanuelle Beart
Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. — Henry Ward Beecher
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is. — Berenice Abbott
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
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. — Jeremy Bentham
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments. — Henri Bergson
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
Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth. — Ambrose Bierce
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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