1.
The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.
Hafez
The heart is a myriad-toned harp that can only be harmonized with affection.
2.
A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs.
It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault;
he must put forward his reasons,
insist on the plan being changed,
and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall.
Napoleon Bonaparte
3.
Be careful to be gentle, lest in removing the rust, you break the whole instrument.
Benedict of Nursia
Take heed to exercise caution, so as not to damage the entirety of the object while removing the corrosion.
4.
I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.
Lee Konitz
5.
Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY
John Henrik Clarke
6.
Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.
John Maurice Clark
8.
Television is a gift of God, and God will hold those who utilize his divine instrument accountable to him.
Philo Farnsworth
9.
God’s Word has always been His chosen instrument to create, convict, convert, and conform His people.
Mark Dever
10.
Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.
Victor Wooten
11.
I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps.
Cassandra Clare
12.
You must embrace the Word of God as the most effective instrument for change.
T. B. Joshua
13.
I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing.
Kerry Washington
14.
External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.
Yusef Lateef
15.
A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.
Eddie Van Halen
17.
God never intended for us to simply be the objects of His love. We are also called to be the instruments of that love in the lives of others.
Paul David Tripp
18.
Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.
Neil Postman
20.
Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them
Bruno Latour
21.
We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works.
Martin Luther
22.
Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument.
J. B. Priestley
23.
The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few.
Franz Schubert
24.
Money's an instrument. The Bible says money answereth all things.
Mike Murdock
25.
...the daguerreotype is not merely an instrument which serves to draw Nature; on the contrary it is a chemical and physical process which gives her the power to reproduce herself.
Louis Daguerre
27.
Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other.
Ruby Dee
28.
I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera.
I recognize it for the instrument it is,
part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
Irving Penn
30.
By Feeling Good Throughout the Day, you Become an Instrument of Peace
Wayne Dyer
31.
The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.
Leonard Bernstein
33.
Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
Antoine Lavoisier
34.
When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.
Mstislav Rostropovich
36.
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
Angela Carter
37.
Photography through the camera is an instrument of detection. We photograph not only what we know, but also what we don't know.
Lisette Model
38.
Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.
Immanuel Kant
39.
Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.
D. Todd Christofferson
40.
The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all.
Arvo Part
42.
Our own lives are the instruments with which we experiment with truth.
Nhat Hanh
43.
When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed!
Trent Reznor
45.
I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
Paul McCartney
46.
Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.
C. S. Lewis
47.
Use me as an example of an instrument of change.
Michael Vick
48.
The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
49.
Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.
John French Sloan
50.
An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.
Henry Miller