Quotes with instrument

Quotes 21 till 40 of 72.

  • Samuel Butler Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Samuel Butler Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • St. Francis of Assisi Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where these is hatred, let me sow love.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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  • Leo Tolstoy Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Walter Benjamin 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 in which dead cities lie interred.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Bill Kreutzmann My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Abe Fortas Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
    Abe Fortas
    American lawyer and jurist (1910 - 1982)
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  • Butch Trucks Our approach is more the jazz approach, where you learn to play your instrument as well as you can, develop your craft, and then communicate with each other. That's the focus, not trying to give some message or entertain or have a good light show or whatever.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Andrew Johnson Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
    Andrew Johnson
    American politician and 17th US president (1808 - 1875)
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  • Ajay Naidu Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Swami Ramdas Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.
    Swami Ramdas
    Indian saint, philosopher, philanthropist and pilgrim (1884 - 1963)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • John Ruskin Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Allan Bloom Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Alexis Carrel Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski So I think that is one of the reasons we can face some regional problems, which are very difficult, very dramatic and is necessary to have instruments to solve these problems. NATO is such instrument.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Ansel Adams 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 is an instrument of love and revelation.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Bernard Devoto Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.
    Bernard Devoto
    American historian, essayist and teacher
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