Arrows famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.
-- Adyashanti -
The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
-- Aesop -
Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever.
-- Albert Einstein -
You got rid of them. Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether ‘tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don’t do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It’s too easy.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Read the flight of your arrow if you want to know your future.
-- Alessandro Baricco -
People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.
-- Andrzej Sapkowski -
So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.
-- Arthur Eddington -
Jackson is the most consummate sketcher I have ever known. These little panels, handy on the trail, could be handled as easily as an expert marksman uses a quiver full of arrows.
-- Arthur Lismer -
She wasn't that tough on me, but I think she was often a little frightened - being a single parent. So it begets this quality of desired absoluteness that doesn't really exist. My sister could crack her up. She'd be getting into trouble and put the Steve Martin arrow through her head and mom would start to laugh. I didn't have the same sort of wiliness.
-- Ashley Judd -
Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
Wait not while your foe fits arrow to bowstring when you can send your own arrow into him.
-- Babur -
The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.
-- Bill Moyers -
But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow.
-- Billy Collins -
Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.
-- Bob Dylan -
Like a rock, standing arrow straight. Like a rock, charging from the gate.
-- Bob Seger -
Instead of shooting arrows at someone elses target, which Ive never been very good at, I make my own target around wherever my arrow happens to have landed. You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.
-- Brian Eno -
People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye. Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
-- Brian Eno -
You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.
-- Brian Eno -
Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target.
-- Brian Tracy -
Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our 'abusers'. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own neurotic dramas. Anyone else in your position would have received the same treatment. There is nothing especially noxious or negatively noteworthy about you.
-- Brian Weiss -
In the weeks since I had made the decision to leave my father's house, I had grown up. And I had learned that not every battle can be fought by firing an arrow from a bow. But I would have to face whatever new challenges came my way as bravely as I had faced the Huns. I could not wallow in self-pity, thinking about what might have been. I had to do my duty. It was the only way to stay true to myself.
-- Cameron Dokey -
My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
-- Carly Simon -
Just so you know, I'm straight. Totally straight. As an arrow." Her voice held a smile. "So am I
-- Carrie Vaughn -
An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
-- Charles Mackay -
There are many other arrows in our diplomatic quiver.
-- Condoleezza Rice -
Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an important arrow in the rhetorical quiver. After all, it exists for a reason.
-- Constance Hale -
I shoot an arrow into the air, where it lands I do not care: I get my arrows wholesale!
-- Curly Howard -
The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.
-- D.T. Suzuki -
How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to be at once an arrow soaring skyward and an oak planted firmly in the ground? The meritocratic culture hones strivers on every aspect of their lives save one - how to cultivate character.
-- David Brooks -
Im about as straight an arrow as youll find out there.
-- Deborah Norville -
At the height of creative activity fueled by enthusiasm, there will be enormous intensity and energy behind what you do. You will feel like an arrow that is moving toward the target-and enjoying the journey.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly, Of sad distrust and jealousy.
-- Edmund Waller -
Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.
-- Edmund Waller -
The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet.
-- Edward Jenks -
They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of themselves. I am reminded of the Greek clown who, having seen an archer bring down a flying bird, remarked, sagely: 'You might have saved your arrow, for the bird would anyway have been killed by the fall.'
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
It's basic research: shoot an arrow in the air. Where it lands, paint a bullseye.
-- Elizabeth Streb -
The name 'Seventh-day Adventist' carries the true features of our faith in front and will convict the inquiring mind. Like an arrow from the Lord's quiver, it will wound the transgressors of God's law, and will lead to repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
-- Ellen G. White -
Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.
-- Ellen Hopkins -
Cupid's not the only one with an arrow," I scowled
-- Ellen Schreiber -
If that happens again someone's gonna get shot.... with an arrow of love!
-- Emilie Autumn -
Some Arrows slay but whom they strike - But this slew all but him - Who so appareled his Escape - Too trackless for a Tomb
-- Emily Dickinson -
The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen.
-- Eugen Herrigel -
I don't think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of the bow and arrow. It's the nuclear age, and war can annihilate us all. The only way to achieve solutions seems to be for the different social systems to coexist.
-- Fidel Castro -
The recollection of an injury is . . . a rusty arrow and poison for the soul.
-- Francis of Paola -
Creativity requires taking what Einstein called 'a leap into the unknown.' This can mean putting your beliefs, reputation and resources on the line as you suffer the slings and arrows of ridicule.
-- Frank X. Barron -
I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs.
-- Franka Potente -
The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind
-- Fred Bear -
You can learn more about hunting deer with a bow and arrow in a week than a gun hunter will learn in his entire life
-- Fred Bear -
One arrow alone can be easily broken but many arrows are indestructible.
-- Genghis Khan -
Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.
-- Georg Hermes -
Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.
-- George Eliot -
The arrows of malevolence ... however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me; though, whilst I am up as a mark, they will be continually aimed.
-- George Washington -
It's true: Everyone needs a reason to stay alive -- someone who justifies your existence. Someone who loves you. Not beyond all reason. Just loves you. Even just shows an interest. Even someone who doesn't exist, or isn't yours. No, no! They don't even have to love you! They just have to be there to love! Target for your arrows. Magnetic Pole to drag on your compass needle and stop it spinning and tell you where you're heading and...Someone to soak up all the yearning. That's what I think.
-- Geraldine McCaughrean -
That's emails for ya: sometimes they're like an arrow that hits so deep in the target, you can't pull it out.
-- Graham Joyce -
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
-- Groucho Marx -
Cupid has offered his arrows for Jesus to try;He has offered his bow for the game.But Jesus went weeping away, and left him there wondering why.
-- Harold Monro -
The real point is that you cannot harbor malice toward others and then cry foul when someone displays intolerance against you. Prejudice tolerated is intolerance encouraged. Rise up in righteousness when you witness the words and deeds of hate, but only if you are willing to rise up against them all, including your own. Otherwise suffer the slings and arrows of disrespect silently.
-- Harvey Fierstein -
The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips, especially when it has been multiplied by the press.
-- Heinrich Heine -
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
-- Helen Keller -
It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.
-- Henry Mackenzie -
Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart - they are meant to be borne - they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike; but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us...
-- Hernando Cortes -
You are wind in a stark tree, you are the stark tree unbent, you are a strung bow, you are an arrow.
-- Hilda Doolittle -
If I was talking to someone face-to-face I would always be clear, but with something like Snapchat, you need to keep the flirty banter going;otherwise you'll be staring at an empty red arrow, cringing.
-- Holly Carpenter -
Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target.
-- Homer Burton Adkins -
War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
Arrow! Black arrow! I have saved you to the last. You have never failed me and I have always recovered you. I had you from my father and he from of old. If ever you came from the forges of the true king under the Mountain, go now and speed well!
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life.
-- James M. Barrie -
Our children take their flight into the future with our thrust and with our aim. And even as we anxiously watch that arrow in flight and know all the evils that can deflect its course after is has left our hand, nevertheless we take courage in remembering that the most important factor in determining that arrow's destination will be the stability, strength, and unwavering certainty of the holder of the bow.
-- Jeffrey R. Holland -
Trying to be Sherlock Holmes is like trying to catch an arrow in mid-flight.
-- Jeremy Brett -
Children are arrows in a quiver, and they are to be trained as missionaries and shot at the Devil.
-- Jim Elliot -
It's like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows.
-- Joe Kinnear -
Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds; Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity.
-- John Milton -
God takes the most eminent and choicest of His servants for the choicest and most eminent afflictions. They who have received most grace from God are able to bear most afflictions from God. Affliction does not hit the saint by chance, but by direction. God does not draw His bow at a venture. Every one of His arrows goes upon a special errand and touches no breast but his against whom it is sent. It is not only the grace, but the glory of a believer when we can stand and take affliction quietly
-- Joseph Caryl -
I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though some of us are more clever than others at disguising our robberies. The reason writers are such slow readers is that we are ceaselessly searching for things we can steal and then pass off as our own: a natty bit of syntax, a seamless transition, a metaphor that jumps to its target like an arrow shot from an aluminum crossbow.
-- Joseph Epstein -
Has the grim savage rushed again from the wilderness? Or does some fiend... twang her deadly arrows at our breast? No, none of these: it is the hand of Britain that inflicts the wound.
-- Joseph Warren -
Trouble follows you like a shadow, Gillian. You're prone to injuries. I swear to God, if a tree decided to fall right now, it would find your head to land on." "Oh, for heaven's sake," she muttered. "I'll admit that I have had a run of bad fortune, but—" He wouldn't let her continue. "A run of bad fortune? Since I've known you, you've been beaten, stabbed and now shot with an arrow. If this keeps up, you'll be dead in another month
-- Julie Garwood -
Attending ComicCon for 'Arrow' was so much fun! Seeing the fans excited gets me excited and feels really good.
-- Katie Cassidy -
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
-- Khalil Gibran -
We need an ally of Mydogg's or Gentian's pretending to be among the most loyal allies of the king,' Brigan said. 'Shouldn't be so hard, really. If I shot an arrow out the window I'd probably hit on.
-- Kristin Cashore -
I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.
-- Laurel Lea -
Brokenness is the bow from which God launches the arrow of healing.
-- Louie Giglio -
While our bodies move ever forward on the time line, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as deftly as any arrow seeking its mark
-- Lucy Grealy -
To define [Canada] or its literature seems like putting a finger on Zeno's arrow: no sooner do you think you have done it than it has moved on.
-- M. G. Vassanji -
I have lost my faith in goals. At one time, they were like a religion to me. But I am starting to realize that goals by themselves are nothing more than an arrow pointing in a certain direction. The real magic is in the systems you create.
-- Mark Edward -
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
-- Martha Beck -
There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn... No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely
-- Mary Leakey -
You have stopped the arrow of time... There's no meaning to this rhyme... Because my song will never mean as much as the one.. He once sang.. For you, yes, you...
-- Megan McCafferty -
Puck rushed into the kitchen. He looked as if he had just gotten off a roller coaster. "That was awesome!" he cried. "The arrow coming out is totally more fun to watch going in.
-- Michael Buckley -
The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing a logical link, an arrow of relationship, upon them. Explanations bind facts together. They make them all the more easily remembered; they help them make more sense. Where this propensity can go wrong is when it increases our impression of understanding.
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Cupid in these latter times has probably laid aside his bow and arrow, and uses fire-arms -- a pistol -- perhaps a revolver.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne -
I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
-- Orlando Bloom
