Archer Quotes:

Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.

- Alexander Smith

topic: Archer, Sorrow, Strikes

It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.

- Aristotle

topic: Life, Archer, Purpose

The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels. I must remember to take enough toilet paper next time.

- Bob Monkhouse

source: "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

topic: Archer, Paper, Toilets, Toilet Paper

The poet is like the prince of clouds Who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer; Exiled on the ground in the midst of jeers, His giant wings prevent him from walking.

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Archer, Clouds, Wings

The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Archer, Clouds, Wings, Stormy Days

Booking an act for my Dad's 70th birthday, I wanted a great act and went straight to John Archer- his reputation in the magic world is among the very best. I was so pleased he was able to do it, and he absolutely brought the house down. It was brilliant, hysterically funny, and perfectly pitched for the occasion. He made the evening. I'd recommend him unreservedly.

- Derren Brown

topic: Dad, Archer, House, Hysterically Funny

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

topic: Fall, Archer, Arrows

I must only warn you of one thing. You have become a different person in the course of these years. For this is what the art of archery means: a profound and far-reaching contest of the archer with himself. Perhaps you have hardly noticed it yet, but you will feel it very strongly when you meet your friends and acquaintances again in your own country: things will no longer harmonize as before. You will see with other eyes and measure with other measures. It has happened to me too, and it happens to all who are touched by the spirit of this art.

- Eugen Herrigel

topic: Country, Art, Archer

The shot will go smoothly only when it takes the archer himself by surprise.

- Eugen Herrigel

topic: Archer, Crafts, Surprise

Of everything I have done, 'The Archers' always gets the most excitement; there's a sort of uncontrollable joy from fans of the program.

- Felicity Jones

topic: Archer, Joy, Fans

As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Wise, Buddhist, Archer

Archers are pretty focused.

- Geena Davis

topic: Archer, Focused

My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I know this? Because I have studied it from all sides for many years; because I have examined all objections which have ever been made against the infinite numbers; and above all because I have followed its roots, so to speak, to the first infallible cause of all created things.

- Georg Cantor

source: "Journey Through Genius". Book by William Dunham, 1990.

topic: Archer, Years, Roots

Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling.

- George Eliot

topic: Archer, Perfect, Deer

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

topic: Archer, Arrows, Bows

But you comfort me, Gimli, I'm glad to have you standing nigh with your stout legs and your hard axe. I wish there were more of your kin among us. But even more would I give for a hundred good archers of Mirkwood." - Legolas

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Archer, Giving, Wish, Stout, Gimli

What we feel most has no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses and birds.

- Jack Gilbert

source: Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992”, p.11, Knopf

topic: Horse, Archer, Names, Cinnamon

Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards.

- Jacob Aagaard

topic: Queens, Archer, Knights, Cavalry

I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books.

- James Ellroy

topic: Book, Archer, Mcdonalds

Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Archer, Fate, White

English country life is more like Chekhov than The Archers or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.

- Jane Gardam

source: Jane Gardam (2007). “The People on Privilege Hill and Other Stories”, Random House

topic: Country, Archer, Ethics, Country Life, Hardy

Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.

- Jeffrey Archer

source: Jeffrey Archer (2008). “Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

topic: Archer, Littles, Easier

A quote from 'Fire' where Fire projected a thought to her best friend Archer: "Love doesn't measure that way, she [Fire] thought to him [Archer]. And you may blame me for your feelings, but it isn't fair to blame me for how you've chosen to behave.

- Kristin Cashore

source: Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.83, Penguin

topic: Archer, Fire, Feelings, Blame Me

You know how to be a good boy?" Anna widened her eyes in surprise. "Why, Archer, I'm certain I never recognized that quality in you.

- Lora Leigh

topic: Archer, Eye, Boys, Good Boy

But you must be patient and careful; nor should you expect to become an accomplished archer without long and severe training.

- Maurice Thompson

source: Maurice Thompson “The Witchery of Archery”, Lulu.com

topic: Archer, Long, Training, Severe

A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

topic: Art, War, Archer, Prowess

Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says--'I cannot stand anymore.' God does not heed, He goes on stretching till His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.

- Oswald Chambers

topic: Jesus, Archer, Sight, Bows And Arrows

Straight up from this road Away from the fitted particles of frost Coating the hull of each chick pea, And the stiff archer bug making its way In the morning dark, toe hair by toe hair, Up the stem of the trillim, Straight up through the sky above this road right now, The galaxies of the Cygnus A cluster Are colliding with each other in a massive swarm Of interpenetrating and exploding catastrophes. I try to remember that.

- Pattiann Rogers

source: Pattiann Rogers (2014). “The Expectations of Light”, p.35, Princeton University Press

topic: Morning, Archer, Dark, Hull, Swarms

I am a very good archer. I use archery as my way of meditation. I cannot sit down and just meditate in the classical sense. I am very active. So, I use archery. I have my bow, my arrow and I use this tension and relaxation in the second after throwing the arrow. And it is my way to meditate and this is the only thing that clears my mind. When I do archery, I am totally there with my bow, my target, my arrow, and I don't think, I am communion with the universe.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Archer, Thinking, Arrows

When an archer is shooting for nothing, he has all his skill. If he shoots for a brass buckle, he is already nervous. If he shoots for a prize of gold, he goes blind or sees two targets - He is out of his mind! His skill has not changed. But the prize divides him. He cares. He thinks more of winning than of shooting- And the need to win drains him of power.

- Zhuangzi

topic: Archer, Caring, Winning, Buckles, Brass

Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Archer, Feet, Arrows, Blindfolded, Bullseye

The capitalist has this over the politician and the clergyman; he has in practice done more to raise the standard of living of the poor than all the government and church programs in history....Monsanto and the Archer Daniels Midland Company have fed more hungry people than all the...soup kitchens combined.

- Dinesh D'Souza

topic: Archer, Soup Kitchens, Government, Monsanto

In competitive archery, risk assessment has minimal bearing on quality of performance, since the archer has so little choice over shot selection. By contrast, in a hunt, shots vary in quality according to how well selected they may be.

- Ernest Sosa

topic: Archer, Assessment, Choices

A hunter archer can also be out to shock by taking crazy shots. What makes his shots "crazy" is set by excessive risk, judged by hunting-archery standards, which would tend to draw agreement from knowledgeable observers.

- Ernest Sosa

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Crazy, Archer, Hunting

Whoa, I'm your girlfriend now?" Archer shrugged. "We've tried to kill each other, fought ghouls, and kissed a lot. I'm pretty sure we're married in some cultures.

- Rachel Hawkins

topic: Girlfriend, Archer, Ghouls

Underneath this little stone Lies Robert Earl of Huntington; No other archer was so good - And people called him Robin Hood. Such outlaws as he and his men Will England never see again.

- Roger Lancelyn Green

source: Roger Lancelyn Green (2010). “The Adventures of Robin Hood”, p.242, Penguin UK

topic: Lying, Archer, Men, Robin Hood

No matter what age we are, regress to a certain youthfulness with people we've known our whole lives, especially our parents. And since I've written the brothers as young people a lot - most notably Archer & Armstrong #0 and the upcoming Book of Death: Legends of the Geomancer #4 , it comes very naturally to me.

- Fred Van Lente

source: Source: comicsbulletin.com

topic: Brother, Book, Archer, Armstrong, Youthfulness

The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.

- Ross Macdonald

topic: Archer, Kind, Novel

As the arrow, loosed from the bow by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the mark, so men pass from God to God. He is the mark for which they have been created, and they do not rest till they find their rest in him.

- Soren Kierkegaard

topic: Archer, Men, Hands

Seville is a tower full of fine archers.... Under the arch of the sky, across the clear plain, she shoots the constant arrow of her river.

- Federico Garcia Lorca

topic: Archer, Sky, Rivers, Seville

A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.

- Sri Aurobindo

source: "Thoughts and Aphorisms". Book by Sri Aurobindo, 1913.

topic: Archer, Arrows, Target

One thing we do really well on Archer and one thing I've always tried to do in my comedy and my writing and my podcast is to never speak down to my audience.

- Aisha Tyler

source: "Aisha Tyler Is a Woman Men Can't Help But Love". Interview with Paul Schrodt, www.esquire.com. May 28, 2014.

topic: Archer, Writing, Comedy

If asked to sketch a picture of the typical archer I would be hard put. They seem to come in all shapes, sizes, colors and backgrounds. Inwardly they seem to have in common a love for the outdoors, a reverence for wildlife, and a close tie with history. There is nothing they seem to enjoy more than telling tall tales around a campfire or talking about archery to others. It would be difficult to find a more interesting group of people.

- Fred Bear

topic: Archer, Color, Talking, Tall Tales, Campfire

Ah! some love Paris, / And some Purdue. / But love is an archer with a low I.Q. / A bold, bad bowman, and innocent of pity. / So I'm in love with / New York City.

- Phyllis McGinley

topic: New York, Archer, Love Is

The archer who misses his mark does not blame the target. He stops, corrects himself and shoots again.

- Confucius

topic: Archer, Missing, Doe

In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.

- Confucius

source: Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.28, Delphi Classics

topic: Archer, Character, Men, Confucianism

Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided than a common archer?

- George Chapman

source: George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.150

topic: Archer, Men, Two

Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Pain, Archer, Arrows

An ordinary archer practices until he gets it right. A ranger practices until he never gets it wrong.

- John Flanagan

topic: Archer, Practice, Ordinary

Like the archers of Agincourt, John O'Neal and the 254 Swiftboat Veterans took down their own haughty Frenchman.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Archer, Politics, Veteran

And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles.

- David Foster Wallace

source: David Foster Wallace (2014). “Girl With Curious Hair”, p.301, Hachette UK

topic: Archer, Heart, Wish

The system wants you to be either a bow or an arrow; refuse both, because there is a third choice: To be an archer!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Archer, Arrows, Choices

A man who has built a world empire with only ideas and with love, not with swords and with archers, is the greatest amongst all the men!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Love, Archer, Men

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

- Walter Scott

source: 'The Lord of the Isles' (1813) canto 5, st. 18

topic: Broken Heart, Archer, May

The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.

- Michel de Montaigne

topic: Fall, Archer, Doe

Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot: unbrace them when the shooting is over. Were they kept always strung they would break and fail the archer in time of need. So it is with men. If they give themselves constantly to serious work, and never indulge awhile in pastime or sport, they lose their senses and become mad.

- Herodotus

source: Herodotus (2017). “The Histories of Herodotus”, p.133, Aegitas

topic: Sports, Archer, Men, Serious Work, Time Of Need

Although extraordinary valor was displayed by the entire corps of Spartans and Thespians, yet bravest of all was declared the Spartan Dienekes. It is said that on the eve of battle, he was told by a native of Trachis that the Persian archers were so numerous that, their arrows would block out the sun. Dienekes, however, undaunted by this prospect, remarked with a laugh, 'Good. Then we will fight in the shade.

- Herodotus

topic: Block, Archer, Fighting, Undaunted, Thespians

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

- Edith Wharton

source: Edith Wharton (2010). “The Age of Innocence”, p.101, Bibliolis Books

topic: Archer, Thinking, People

She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me.

- Edith Wharton

source: Edith Wharton (2012). “The Age of Innocence”, p.231, Courier Corporation

topic: Communication, Archer, Eye, Most Wanted

But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer

- Edith Wharton

topic: Archer, Sacrifice, Long, Manson

Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of her past. She might believe herself wholly in revolt against it; but what had charmed her in it would still charm her even though it were against her will.

- Edith Wharton

source: Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2047, Delphi Classics

topic: Believe, Archer, Intelligent, Recoil

Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least motion might drive off on startled wings, but that might gather a flock if it were left undisturbed.

- Edith Wharton

source: Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2116, Delphi Classics

topic: Moving, Archer, Butterfly

Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.

- Edward Young

source: Edward Young, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edward Young”, p.29

topic: Peace, Archer, Moon

When an archer desires to shoot his arrows successfully, he first takes great pains over his posture and aligns himself accurately with his mark. It should be the same for you who are about to shoot the head of the wicked devil. Let us be concerned first for the good order of sensations and then for the good posture of inner thoughts.'

- Saint John Chrysostom

topic: Pain, Archer, Order, Good Posture

Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen! Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood; Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Isaac Reed (1801). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: Henry VI, pts. II-III. Dissertation, &c. Richard III”, p.487

topic: Horse, War, Archer, Yeoman

Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow that is stable.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

topic: Children, Archer, Arrows, Love Your Children, Bows And Arrows

You never can tell when you send a word, Like an arrow shot from a bow By an archer blind, be it cruel or kind, Just where it may chance to go!

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

source: Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.74, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Archer, Anger, Arrows

Archer, is there a servant girl in my fortress you haven't taken to bed? I announce you're leaving and within minutes two of them are at each other's throats, and another is crying her eyes out in the scullery. Honestly. You've been here all of nine days." - Roen, "Fire

- Kristin Cashore

source: Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.73, Penguin

topic: Girl, Archer, Taken

Roen snorted. "You two have the strangest relationship in the Dells." Archer smiled slightly. "She won't consent to make it a marriage." "I can't imagine what's stopping her. I don't suppose you've considered being less munificent with your love?" "Would you marry me, Fire, if I slept in no one's bed but yours?" He knew the answer to that, but it didn't hurt to remind him. "No, and I should find my bed quite cramped.

- Kristin Cashore

source: Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.64, Penguin

topic: Hurt, Archer, Fire, Dell

When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.

- Zhuangzi

topic: Archer, Skills, Two, Buckles

An archer competing for a clay vessel shoots effortlessly, his or her skill and concentration unimpeded. If the prize is changed to a brass ornament, the hands begin to shake. If it is changed to gold, he or she squints as if going blind. The abilities do not deteriorate, but belief in them does, as he or she allows the supposed value of an external reward to cloud the vision.

- Zhuangzi

topic: Archer, Clouds, Hands

You can learn from an ordinary bamboo leaf what ought to happen. It bends lower and lower under the weight of snow. Suddenly the snow slips to the ground without the leaf having stirred. Stay like that at the point of highest tension until the shot falls from you. So, indeed, it is: when the tension is fulfilled, the shot must fall, it must fall from the archer like snow from a bamboo leaf, before he even thinks it.

- Eugen Herrigel

topic: Fall, Archer, Thinking, Bamboo

Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out! The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise. It must be as if the bowstring suddenly cut through the thumb that held it. You mustn't open the right hand on purpose.

- Eugen Herrigel

source: Eugen Herrigel (1964). “Zen”

topic: Archer, Cutting, Thinking

The spider dances her web without knowing there are flies that will get caught in it. The fly, dancing nonchalantly on a sunbeam gets caught without knowing what lies in store. But through both of them "It" dances. So, too, the archer hits the target without having aimed-more I cannot say.

- Eugen Herrigel

topic: Lying, Archer, Knowing

The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.

- Oliver Goldsmith

topic: Lying, Archer, Heart, Correcting, Corrections