Instruments Quotes
1542 quotes by 1167 authors
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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
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and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range…
— George Eliot
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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
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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
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Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our knowledge, even the…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position from which he…
— Leo Tolstoy
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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
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Ourchestra: So you haven't got a drum, just beat your belly. So I haven't got a horn-I'll play my nose. So we haven't any cymbals-…
— Shel Silverstein
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of, your…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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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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There was something about clowns that was worse than zombies. (Or maybe something that was the same. When you see a zombie, you want to…
— Kelly Link
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We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time
— John Green
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