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Letter "I" » instruments
«Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens.»
Author: Edgar A. Suter
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
citizens, coercion, denied, governments, instruments, possess, violence
«Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.»
«How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.»
Author: Alan Watts
(Interpreter, Thinker, Writer)
| Keywords:
arabesque, enchanted, instruments, jewels, musical, musical instrument, musical instruments, nerves, sensitive
«I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: / I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: / I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees: / I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me: / I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
cattle, delights, fruits, gardens, gat, gathered, instruments, Jerusalem, Maidens, musical, musical instrument, musical instruments, orchards, planted, pools, possessions, provinces, singers, Sons of, therewith, treasure house, vineyards
«Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the LORD: / And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.»
«It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin - not sounding like them, but 'playing' the voice like those instruments»
Author: Frank Sinatra
(Actor, Singer)
| Keywords:
instruments, sounding, trombone, trombones, violin
«If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Desire,
Insults,
Peace
| Keywords:
instruments, repel, repelled, repelling, repels
«If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Music,
Thought
| Keywords:
Greek, Human thought, instruments, musical, musical instrument, musical instruments, The Violin, violin, violins
«In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments»
«In my time I have seen truth that was anything under the sun but just, and I have seen justice using tools and instruments I wouldn't want to touch with a 10-foot fence rail.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
fence, fence rail, instruments, rail, railed, rails, rail fence
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