Instruments Quotes

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A photographer's main instrument is his eyes. Strange as it may seem, many photographers choose to use the eyes of another photographer, past or present,… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo
I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because… — Steve Swallow
Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression. — John Charles Polanyi
I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double. — Lee Konitz
If men make war in slavish observance of rules, they will fail. No rules will apply to conditions of war as different as those which… — Ulysses S. Grant
As an instrument of planetary home repair, it is hard to imagine anything as safe as a tree. — Jonathan Weiner
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror… — Thomas A. Edison
It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by… — Karl Pearson
Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but… — David Ives
When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror. — Adolf Hitler
Weapons are not proper instruments for gentle people; they use them only when they have no other choice. Peace and quiet are what they value.… — Laozi
Opera stars know that biology is destiny. Sometime in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious instrument that has been the… — Michael A. Walsh
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense. — Dante Alighieri
An intellectual, heartless man never becomes an inspired man. It is always the heart that speaks in the man of love; it discovers a greater… — Swami Vivekananda
We are not to throw away those things which can benefit our neighbor. Goods are called good because they can be used for good: they… — Clement of Alexandria
Maybe you've attended church for five, ten, or even twenty years, but you've never cracked open the Bible to prepare yourself for effectiveness as His… — Howard G. Hendricks
It's essential to growth. It's essential to maturity. It's essential for equipping you, training you, so that you might be an available, clean, sharp instrument… — Howard G. Hendricks
The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being — Thomas Jefferson
The one common undertaking and universal instrument of the great majority of the human race is the United Nations. A patient, constructive long-term use of… — Trygve Lie
There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed. I do not… — Anthony Trollope

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