The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

The harmonica is a great instrument.
Toots Thielemans

The heart is the only broken instrument that works.
T. E. Kalem

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
John Adams

The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.
Klaus Schulze

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.
Richard Strauss

The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all.
Arvo Part

The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.
Robert Bolt

The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
Woodrow Wilson

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.
Hannah Arendt

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
Carlos Santana

The name of my ailment was longing, and it was not cured till I finally went to the department store and counted out the money in small coins before the dismayed clerk. When I came to the house, I held up the instrument before the eyes of the astonished household.
William Christopher Handy

The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.
John Fogerty

The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.
Max Roach

The piano is kind of my second instrument.
Bill Bruford

The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument.
Suzi Quatro

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.
Ruth St. Denis

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.
William Greider

The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.
Stan Getz