An Arrow Can Only Be Shot Quotes

#1. An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. So when life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means that it's going to launch you into something great. So focus, and keep aiming.

Anonymous

#2. When I met you I was moving like a blind arrow shot in time of need. I was flint-sharp, flint-primitive. I was aim, arrow, and target. I wanted to be wounded again. I did not want to seal myself against life. I would rather be cut than dry.

Jeanette Winterson

#3. Amazingly similar in the execution. A bow pulled, an arrow shot. Entirely different in the aftermath. I killed a boy whose name I don't even know. Somewhere his family is weeping for him. His friends call for my blood. Maybe he had a girlfriend who really believed he would come back ...

Suzanne Collins

#4. 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

#5. Most men would rather be shot through with a broad-headed arrow than be described by you.

Neal Stephenson

#6. The war had made him into a lone wolf, an introverted arrow that shot silent and solitary to his target for the moment. He'd become an opportunist of sensation and aesthetic.

John Horne Burns

#7. RELEASE THY BREATH, he advised. DROPETH THY SHOULDER. "I have shot a bow before," I grumbled. MINDETH THY RIGHT ELBOW, the arrow said. "Shut up." AND TELLEST NOT THINE ARROW TO SHUT UP.

Rick Riordan

#8. 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

#9. I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother.

William Shakespeare

#10. Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its way; you must damn the torrent at its source.

Rumi

#11. In a clear brook
With joyful haste
The whimsical trout
Shot past me like an arrow
I play the line of the song, I play the leaps and plunges of the right hand of the piano, I am the trout, the angler, the brook, the observer.

Vikram Seth

#12. If that happens again someone's gonna get shot ... with an arrow of love!

Emilie Autumn

#13. When I thought I felt better, grief shot its silver tip arrow at my heart to remind me that it was still there."
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S.G. Holster

#14. Oh, geez." Noah feigns that I've shot an arrow into his cchcest and falls on the ground. "You're killing mme, Hannah, you're killllllinnngg mmmmee.

Lauren Barnholdt

#15. I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#16. The Archer always keeps an arrow in her quiver for you; interrupt my shot again, and I will give it to you directly.

Kresley Cole