Bowstring Quotes

#1. Extravagant love, as in every generation before us, has been ridiculed and scorned. it is seen as wasteful and reckless overspending. But extravagant love, the offering of everything, the emptying of the pockets of our life, is the essence of true Christianity.

Eric Ludy

#2. Between the river in the mellow English landscape and the African mountain ridge, ran the path of this life ... The bowstring was released on the bridge at Eton, the arrow described its orbit, and hit the obelisk in the Ngong Hills.

Karen Blixen

#3. Some travelers are drawn forward by a goal lying before them in the way iron is drawn to the magnet. Others are driven on by a force lying behind them. In such a way the bowstring makes the arrow fly.

Isak Dinesen

#4. Your body is your subconscious mind and you can't heal it by talk alone.

Candace Pert

#5. Folly it may seem. Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him ... . We live now upon an island amid many perils, and our hands are more often upon the bowstring than upon the harp

J.R.R. Tolkien

#6. ... a prudent archer has always a second bowstring

Henry James

#7. Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.

Pamela Sargent

#8. In spite of their friendship, they were so far apart, the bowstring was so taut between them: a seeing man and a blind man, they walked side by side ; the blind man's unawareness of his own blindness was a consolation only to himself.

Hermann Hesse

#9. I saw myself then - sour, silly, difficult, lovely in his eyes. I drew him to me, felt him shudder as our bodies came together, skin against skin, felt the heat of his lips, his tongue, hands moving until the need between us drew taut and anxious as a bowstring waiting for release.

Leigh Bardugo

#10. You can't stay in bed forever."
"Why not? It's warm. And comfy. And it's got all these great pillows.

Tammy Blackwell

#11. It is easy to kill with a bow, girl. How easy it is to release the bowstring and think, it is not I, it is the arrow. The blood of that boy is not on my hands. The arrow killed him, not I. But the arrow does not dream anything in the night.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#12. To see the clothes in movement like that, to create for dancers, is special.

Isabel Toledo

#13. But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.

Anita Roddick

#14. I hate those things," grumbled Kel as she removed the bowstring.

Tamora Pierce

#15. Wait not while your foe fits arrow to bowstring when you can send your own arrow into him.

Babur