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When the mind is still, we can become an instrument of peace. — Eknath Easwaran

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more. — Neville Marriner

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense. — Dante Alighieri

To my eyes and ears the organ will ever be the King of Instruments. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Fever itself is Nature's instrument. — Thomas Sydenham

I'm an electronic guy, I'm a freak for electronic music but real instruments, the dynamic range of it, and the emotions, there's no comparison. — Armin Van Buuren

You've got to learn your instrument. — Charlie Parker

We are all but instruments of God. — Stonewall Jackson

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it. — Jeff Lynne

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors. — Colin Wilson

Instruments sound sweetest when they are touched softest. — John Lyly

In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God. — Ravi Shankar

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments. — Marilyn Vos Savant

God has His own way of choosing His instruments. — Mahatma Gandhi

God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments. — Bill Vaughan

Make me an instrument of thy peace. — Francis Of Assisi

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself. — Robert Bresson

Good friends are divine instruments. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I had the idea to do an anthology about instrument-making. — David Toop

The nod means 'I am a badass, and I recognise that you too, are a badass. — Cassandra Clare

Common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable. — Susanne Katherina Langer

The computer is simply an instrument whose music is ideas. — Alan Kay

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age. — Mick Jagger

I was even a little glad that if it wasn't going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her. — Cassandra Clare

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself. — Michala Petri

I am an Instrument of Nature..Love is my message.. — Michael Jackson

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid. — Robert Moog

the destiny of intelligent tool-using life was to be a stepping-stone in the evolution of corporate instruments. — Charles Stross

The sarangi, the ney flute are pretty ancient instruments. — Howard Shore

You promise." "I swear on the angel. The hell with that. I swear on us." "Why us?" "Because there isn't anything I believe in more. — Cassandra Clare

Your body is your instrument, you play it expertly. — Roseanne Barr

Very young people are true but not resounding instruments. — Elizabeth Bowen

Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle. — Roland Barthes

It is the state of mind of the person wielding the instrument that determines to what end it will be put. — Dalai Lama

Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY — John Henrik Clarke

His eyes were green. — Cassandra Clare

At last he reached out and with a gentle hand, closed Valentine's eyes.
"Ave atque vale, Shadowhunter," he said. — Cassandra Clare

Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts. — Alberto Manguel

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one. — Tony Visconti

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several. — Paul Gauguin

We are but as the instrument of heaven. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim. — Blaise Pascal

Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs. — Joe Perry

I play no instruments. — Clive Davis

Alec is not a bunny rabbit. He's a shadowhunter. — Cassandra Clare

I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instruments. — Christian McKay

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science. — Thomas Jefferson

Every artist is different - the pop mentality is different than bands for me, because I'm playing a lot of the instruments. — Matt Squire

Harping should be limited to musical instruments. - Charmainism — Charmaine Smith Ladd

I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments. — Agnes Obel

The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments. — Joseph Joubert

It's a powerful instrument, dynamite
nothing like it for a convincing argument! — Leonid Andreyev

The people around you are the instruments that God will use to help you — Sunday Adelaja

The instruments for the quest for Truth are as simple as they are difficult. — Mahatma Gandhi

God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Enormous? Did you just call me fat? — Cassandra Clare

Luckily, languages are like musical instruments: the more you know, the easier it is to pick up new ones. — Patrick Rothfuss

The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a will. — Irene Thomas

If the EU and its 25 member states make a clever use of all policy instruments, broadband for all Europeans is certainly not out of reach by 2010. — Viviane Reding

Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context. — Idries Shah

I have always been drawn to percussion and drums, to bass and piano, in music much more then I am drawn to the guitar and the other lead instruments. — Dave Matthews

We need to play each others instruments. — Steven Johnson

The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few. — Franz Schubert

I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments. — Edward Norton

Ban short-selling, high speed trading and all other instruments of pure speculation — Miguel Reynolds Brandao

God's Word has always been His chosen instrument to create, convict, convert, and conform His people. — Mark Dever

I must play the instrument I've got. — Saul Bellow

I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there's a life after that, I'll love you then. — Cassandra Clare

Literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it. — Cynthia Ozick

I learned to play the instruments of war," he said, "and paint in blood. — Cassandra Clare

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass. — Billy Sheehan

Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills. — B.C. Forbes

I have only been an instrument in the hands of Providence. — George Washington

Memory is ... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection. — Alain De Botton

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young. — Hugh Laurie

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments. — Robert Moog

The ukulele is the instrument of peace, — Jake Shimabukuro

At least one day out of the year all musicans should just put their instruments down, and give thanks to Duke Ellington. — Miles Davis

I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny. — Charles De Gaulle

I think it will be fun to not only play new music, but to get to play different instruments on-stage. — Bethany Cosentino

Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge. — Mark Twain

The Internet is the most effective instrument we have for globalization. — Milton Friedman

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you. — Green Day

If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood. — Cassandra Clare

Everything is the will of God - we are only instruments of her will and we learn to just love and accept. — Frederick Lenz

Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability. — Mahatma Gandhi

A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other. — Katherine Anne Porter

The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world. — Steve Vai

LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you. — Alan Watts

The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had. — Rita Levi-Montalcini

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

After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect. — Tom T. Hall

Words are blunt instruments, better suited to murder than to making sense of the world. — Mark Lawrence

War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive. — Ulysses S. Grant

Charkha is an instrument of service. — Mahatma Gandhi

I look at people like musical instruments. I set people to music. — Elizabeth Swados

God accomplishes his designs unknown even to those whom he employs as his instruments. — Jean-Henri Merle D'Aubigne

The Mortal Instruments series is a story world that I love to live in. Beautiful! — Stephenie Meyer

Having decided to follow my own intuitive path I began to write music on the basis of harmonized spoken words, for new instruments and in new scales. — Harry Partch

That most sensitive, most delicate of instruments
the mind of a little child! — Henry Handel Richardson