Instruments Quotes

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The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of… — C.S. Lewis
Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will… — William Shakespeare
How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette) — Robert Ludlum
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
We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the ticking, we are… — Rachel Cohn
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 human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of… — Christopher Morley
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 â€“ two… — Ambrose Bierce
The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to… — James Madison
None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one anotherâ€™s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others… — Dean Koontz
Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an… — Orhan Pamuk

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