Longbow Quotes

#1. In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why.

Edmund Morgan

#2. It even immunizes them against fear, if they honestly believe that a martyr's death will send them straight to heaven. What a weapon! Religious faith deserves a chapter to itself in the annals of war technology, on an even footing with the longbow, the warhorse, the tank, and the hydrogen bomb.

Richard Dawkins

#3. These outlanders are peculiar, aren't they?"

Longbow smiled faintly. "They seem to think that we're the peculiar ones. Their lives are very complicated, but we try our best to keep everything simple. I'm not sure exactly why, but that seems to offend them for some reason.

David Eddings

#4. A longbow takes a massive draw for the arrow to go anywhere.

Luke Evans

#5. These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards away instead of the innocent bystander at whom it was aimed.

Terry Pratchett

#6. I took pains to relate to him many of my pleasantest adventures, by field and by flood, with the longbow.

J. Maurice Thompson

#7. If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

Tim Vine

#8. He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. But a girl starting out in life might well say to herself: 'Is this it? You worked hard and denied yourself things and what you got at the end was hard work and self-denial?

Terry Pratchett

#10. You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It's like having a war on jealousy.

David Cross

#11. I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.

Adam Jones

#12. Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane.

Germaine Greer

#13. Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!

Aldous Huxley

#14. Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.
[Give me the splendid silent sun]

Walt Whitman

#15. War? War is blood and shit and men maddened with pain calling for their mother as they bleed to death. There's no honour in it, boy." His eyes shifted, meeting Vaelin's. "You'll see it, you poor little bastard. You'll see it all.

Anthony Ryan

#16. You don't need to be technically great, because if you have a strong philosophy people will be moved by your pictures regardless.

Mario Sorrenti

#17. I know of few families today that aren't touched to some extent by the heartache of divorce, including our own.

Billy Graham

#18. I'm gonna love you like I've never been broken
I'm gonna say it like it's never been spoken

Demi Lovato