Quotes and Sayings About Arrows
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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
