This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
Voltaire

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.
Zoltan Kodaly

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
Antoine Lavoisier

Voice is my instrument.
Debra Wilson

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Ambrose Bierce

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
Thomas Jefferson

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
Karl Von Clausewitz

We can see that the baby is as much an instrument of nourishment for us as we are for him.
Polly Berrien Berends

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
Dean Acheson

We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.
Yo-Yo Ma

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.
Lawrence Welk

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
H. P. Lovecraft

What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.
Roscoe Mitchell

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
C. S. Lewis

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.
Michael Ende

When you are accompanied by the instrument - on an instrument like the lute-the lute and voice - you have this sound, and you feel how the music can be so touching and yet so simple.
Cecilia Bartoli

Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition.
Wynton Marsalis

Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted?
Alva Myrdal

Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!
Luigi Pirandello