“ The mechanism of evolution is real, is observable and is more than adequate to the task,... Evolution tinkers, improvises and cobbles together new organs out of old parts. ”
- Kenneth Miller- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda. ”
- Dan Quayle- Copy
- 1.5K
“ But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument. ”
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider- Copy
- 3.9K
“ You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted. ”
- Katherine Hulme- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. ”
- Calvin Coolidge- Copy
- 154
“ Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. ”
- Henry C. Rogers- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
- 664
“ JEWS-HARP, n. An unmusical instrument, played by holding it fast with the teeth and trying to brush it away with the finger. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 1K
“ Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
- 1.3K
“ The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 853
“ And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 158
“ I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. ”
- Alanis Morissette- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity. ”
- Stuart Seaton- Copy
- 916
“ The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys. ”
- Gail Pool- Copy
- 43
“ There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. ”
- J. S . Bach- Copy
- 936
“ The state is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one class by another — no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy. ”
- Friedrich Engels- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments. ”
- Frederick The Great- Copy
- 2K
“ Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace. ”
- Plato- Copy
- 1.4K
“ A state that dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great things can really be accomplished. ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
- 731
“ Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play. ”
- Charlie Parker- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. ”
- Chamfort- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship… the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. ”
- Peter Drucker- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Cannon: An instrument used in the rectification of national boundaries. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Vote: The instrument and symbol of a free man's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 3K
“ After an instrument has been assembled, extra components will be found on the bench. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument. ”
- Sappho- Copy
- 3.1K
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