Quotes of: Powerful-instrument Keyword

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

Fame turns out to be a powerful instrument of grace because it humbles its chosen victims in a hurry. You sail into it, your canvas swelled with grandiosity, and when your fifteen minutes are over and you are becalmed, you realize that grandiosity ca...

Fear of Fifty

Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to any kind of discourse. But we well know that in its distribution, in what it permits and in what it prevents, it follows the we...

Michel Foucault

Grief is an artist of powers as various as the instruments upon which he plays his dirges for the dead, evoking from some the sharpest, shrillest notes, from others the low, grave chords that throb recurrent like the slow beating of a distant drum. S...

Ambrose Bierce

Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.

Antonio Damasio

When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curricul...

Spike Lee

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

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Everyone loves a kick-ass girl. (Well- maybe not her enemies, but you know what I mean.)

Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader

The beauty of fantasy is that it allows the protagonist to pass through fear to come to know this different reality and to find a place in it.

Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader

Even places you know well can take on a touch of the unknown when you arrive there from a different direction.

Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader

Cities have the capability to at any moment shift out of the familiar, even if you've lived in one all your life.

Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader

He spoke so effortlessly, as if his mouth were a musical instrument that just let sound out when touched, when opened.

Purple Hibiscus

In order to make my solo shows as interesting as possible, I moved songs onto very different instruments so that I was moving instruments quite a lot during the set.

P. J. Harvey

All Individuals in this world struggle and fight their own battles.Very Few choose to fight the battles worth fighting for.The ones that serve as an instrument of liberation,an instrument of hope and everything that is right with this world.

Mohammad Rafiq Teli

Our time prides itself on having finally achieved the freedom from censorship for which libertarians in all ages have struggled...The credit for these great achievements is claimed by the new spirit of rationalism, a rationalism that, it is argued, h...

Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation

By using repetition, images, and other strategies - all of which communicate truths in ways that are not cognitively or propositional - marketing forms us into the kind of persons who want to buy beer to have meaningful relationships, or to buy a car...

Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church

We live vicariously through stories, because our own lives provide so few opportunities for high-stakes adventure and noble sacrifice.

Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader

There are more hidden spaces in a city, more hidden lives and hidden emptinesses, and more darkened windows where shadow people pass fleetingly in and out of sight.

Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader

Am I the only guy that holds a flute of champagne like it’s a musical instrument?

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different ty...

Serj Tankian

Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes. With a dull instrument, the harmonics die out, but with a sustaining instrument, the harmonics continue to soun...

Steve Albini