Top 100 Quotes About Arrows
#1. He who does not walk against the arrows cannot talk about the strength of his shield!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#2. Let's be honest: ignoring is acting, and nothing more - acting as though the words, or actions of your oppresors don't hurt. you hear the words, you feel the insults, and you bear the blows. you can act deaf and impervious to pain, but the stabs and the arrows pierce you anyway.
Frank E. Peretti
#3. These natives are a very good people; for when they saw that I would not remain, they supposed that I was afraid of their bows; and, taking their arrows, the broke them in pieces and threw them into the fire.
Henry Hudson
#5. Perhaps writing only arouses the passions in order to allay them, as beaters flush out the game in order to expose it to the hunter's arrows.
Amin Maalouf
#6. I hate arrows. They try to tell me which direction to go. It's like "I ain't going that way, line with two thirds of a triangle on the end!"
Mitch Hedberg
#7. Let them come with their night-vision glasses and their heavy, branch-breaking bodies. Right into the range of my arrows.
Suzanne Collins
#8. I sent mental voodoo arrows into the back of his had the whole way.
Jojo Moyes
#9. One arrow alone can be easily broken but many arrows are indestructible.
Genghis Khan
#10. Damen now knew the precise number of arrows Laurent needed to have trained on him in order to shut him up. It was six.
C.S. Pacat
#11. Sense and Sensibility signs litter Devon
arrows with S & S on. Whenever Ang [Lee] sees a B & B sign he thinks it's for another movie.
Emma Thompson
#12. You could tell the position of the dragon by the rattle of arrows across the city, and by the screams and gurgles of all those hit by the misses and ricochets.
Terry Pratchett
#13. Thanksgiving is for real Americans not Indians. We founded this Christian nation. Why if it wasn't for the God-fearing pilgrims, the natives would still be running around in loin cloths shooting at things with their arrows.
Sarah Palin
#14. He really was a very bad leader in that respect - and it was why his Arrows gave him their unswerving dedication. All of them rejects from the world, from their families. No one else had ever come for them, ever would. Silence or not, it mattered that Aden would.
Nalini Singh
#15. It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords, pop-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them, and go off to wage war.
Sholom Aleichem
#16. I was very average in the social label scale going through school. I was neither the coolest person in school, nor did I suffer the slings and arrows of being made fun of to such a degree that I couldn't get through the day.
Jim Parsons
#17. They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us ...
Hernando Cortes
#18. For a moment, Meg couldn't think, could barely breathe as a drawing of a cow with arrows pointing to the various cuts of meat popped into her head. Then she imagined a drawing of a human with the same kinds of arrows. Could there be a sign like that in the butcher shop?
Anne Bishop
#19. Underneath it, he had snuck out of the house wearing a T-shirt that said I'M WITH STUPID, with arrows pointing in all different directions. It pretty much summed up how I was feeling today, too. Surrounded by stupid.
Kami Garcia
#20. Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal.
Paul Klee
#21. When dealing with overly critical people, try to see past the arrows to the struggles that launched them.
Craig Groeschel
#22. If a person does not repent, God[*] will sharpen his sword; he will bend and string his bow. 13 He will prepare his deadly weapons and shoot his flaming arrows.
Anonymous
#23. 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
#24. Persian envoy "our arrows will black out the sun ... " Dienekes of the Spartans.."Good, then we'll fight in the shade.
Steven Pressfield
#25. If blue is dream
what then innocence?
What awaits the heart
if Love bears no arrows?
Federico Garcia Lorca
#26. For somewhere," said Poirot to himself, indulging in an absolute riot of mixed metaphors, "there is in the hay a needle, and among the sleeping dogs there is one on whom I shall put my foot, and by shooting the arrows into the air, one will come down and hit a glass house!
Agatha Christie
#27. You are the deer shot through with arrows whose heart grows cold for want of being taken.
Kathleen Kent
#28. This
is the departure strip,
the dream-road. Whoever built it
left numbers, words and arrows.
He had to leave in a hurry.
Robert Lowell
#29. Spider Jockey - spider jockeys are spiders that have a skeleton riding them. They rarely spawn, but if they do, unless you have a lot of arrows and a huge space, you need to run for your life.
Gerone Adams
#30. You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.
Baltasar Gracian
#31. It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.
Jonathan Shapiro
#32. And where colours like
A rainbow dance alive, as
Wisdom's arrows rain down
And ages come to pass.
Marie Symeou
#33. All right, boy, skewer me. I've dropped my defenses,
I'm an easy victim. Why, by now
Your arrows practically know their own way to the target
And feel less at home in their quiver than in me.
Ovid
#34. I can't have swords." Key answered.
No swords?"
They're sharp."
That's why they're good."
I can't have daggers or darts. Or arrows, either."
Why? Arrows are the best."
They can kill people."
That's the coolest part!
Jason Hightman
#36. As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.
Gautama Buddha
#37. But calling up magic when there were arrows flying and chunks of the countryside disappearing was about as easy as going to the toilet on command with a dozen people watching. Who all hated you.
Eoin Colfer
#39. With good reason, love's messengers, Eros and Kama, are armed with bows and long-distance arrows. No being, god or mortal, can choose love. Love comes despite ourselves; and then, if we have not already done so, we have the task of becoming our selves so we may welcome love.
Diane Wolkstein
#40. Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.
Steven Erikson
#42. I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a squire pulling arrows from his body to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birthright, but is defined by one's actions.
Kevin Costner
#43. Despair is a wholly selfish response to fortune's slings and arrows.
Rick Yancey
#45. The clocks had nothing to do with time but were merely instruments, the clicking and ticking of silver and gold and bronze and pinchbeck arrows, a droll and slapstick rhapsody of lies.
Tabitha King
#46. If you use a wolf to hunt a wolf, keep two arrows near to hand.
Elaine Cunningham
#47. Politics is only worthwhile if you are doing what you believe, regardless of the slings and arrows.
David Blunkett
#48. Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.
Kevin Crossley-Holland
#49. You can recognize a pioneer by the arrows in his back.
Beverly Rubik
#50. It's two A.M. "To sleep or to write that is the question?" Whether it tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of my piss poor punctuation or take arms against a sea of keys with so many new possibilities.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#51. Oo!" Nico raised his hand. "What about Dr. Thorn? That was awesome how you shot him
with arrows! Is he dead?
Rick Riordan
#52. I always knew you were tough, but you're about to try to take on the wolves, the Arrows, the Forgotten, and God knows who else, all at once. Forget brass balls. Those things are goddamn titanium!
Nalini Singh
#53. I have heard that the ancients used bows and arrows to their advantage.
Sun Tzu
#54. Look at me. I was a warrior on this land where the sun rises, now I come from where the sun sets. Whose voice was first surrounded on this land - the red people with bows and arrows. The Great Father says he is good and kind to us. I can't see it ...
Red Cloud
#55. Has the grim savage rushed again from the wilderness? Or does some fiend ... twang her deadly arrows at our breast? No, none of these: it is the hand of Britain that inflicts the wound.
Joseph Warren
#56. It is easy to shield the outer body from poisoned arrows, but it is impossible to shield the mind from the poisoned darts that originate within itself. Greed, anger, foolishness and the infatuations of egoism - these four poisoned darts originate within the mind and infect it with deadly poison.
Albert Camus
#57. The good shine from afar Like the snowy Himalayas. The bad don't appear Even when near, Like arrows shot into the night.
Gautama Buddha
#58. It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.
Henry MacKenzie
#59. At fifty times the distance, you dispatched that ko-bold with three arrows to the neck. I've earned a trio to the chest. Seems you slapped him while you're tickling me. You doona want to kill me, which is a good sign. Maybe this is your way of flirting?
Kresley Cole
#60. Arrows of insight have to be winged by the feathers of speculation.
Bernard Cornwell
#61. Fasten your belts and sharpen your arrows, we're going for a hunt! I'm single again!
Hamidreza Bagheri
#62. As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark ... so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.
William Shakespeare
#63. Your arrows may strike all things else, Apollo, but mine shall strike you.
Thomas Bulfinch
#64. The arrows are from her dowry.
Juvenal
#65. Cupid, you see, was a more dangerous archer than even mighty Apollo, for, although Apollo's arrows could drain one's life blood in an instant, a wound from Cupid's arrows would cause one to fall deeply in love,
William F. Russell
#66. It's like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows.
Joe Kinnear
#68. Whether 'tis nobler 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?
William Shakespeare
#69. I'm not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.
Virginia Woolf
#70. I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
Rachel McAdams
#71. Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.
George Eliot
#72. Archer has arrows to shoot; Sun has lights to shoot and Wise Man has thoughts to shoot!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#73. Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.
Paul Rand
#74. Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured! ... What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds?
Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
#75. I often take ill-gotten gold
So folk won't starve or feel cold
But gold today was rightly won
When you named me your champion.
So learn this lesson well today
My warrant you will never pay
For like arrows, Robins fly free
None shall my master ever be
R.M. ArceJaeger
#77. You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
Foster Friess
#78. Beauty's Curse
Her bow is drawn to worlds of dark,
where arrows spring and miss their mark
she'll turn their heads but not their hearts.
Lang Leav
#79. When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
Carly Fiorina
#80. Our perceptions shape whether challenges are obstacles that block our path to success or important arrows that steer us in the direction we want to go.
Julie Connor
#81. Gabriel shuffled around the trunk again, searching for faux arrows - arrows designed to injure but not kill. "All these arrows are sharp - and have blood on them."
"Yes, well, I left my cotton candy arrows at home next to my teddy bear.
Chelsea Fine
#82. It's amazing how quiet the world is as the arrows sail, carrying death.
Pierce Brown
#83. Fling arrows at all the strange things you see out here, and all you do is run out of arrows.
Scott Lynch
#84. 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
#85. Our powder and arrows are going to run out on us some time. And so are our food and water and joie de vivre and good books and everything. Why not walk out now and get made into somebody's favourite slave?
Dorothy Dunnett
#86. Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way
like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.
Dan Simmons
#88. The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#89. There are so many people who've come before us,
arrows and wagon wheels, obsidian tools, buffalo.
Look out at the meadow, you can almost see them,
generations dissolved in the bluegrass and hay.
I want to try and be terrific. Even for an hour.
Ada Limon
#90. Love, it came unbidden.
You couldn't help whom you fell in love with - cupid's arrows were ill aimed.
V.C. Andrews
#91. Am looking for signs of life, although I know I won't find them. I'm not sure how the poachers took this herd down. They use guns and spears, sometimes arrows poisoned with acokanthera. I've
Jodi Picoult
#92. A voice may whisper that it was no image, but only imagination; it was a mirage, a fantasy. But as the water settles, with gentle ripples still visible where the arrows went in, the image will return. We will gaze at it once more, and know that in the Lord our labour is not in vain.
N. T. Wright
#93. The club supporters' old practice of shooting arrows into the air from their wands every time their Chasers scored was banned by the Department of Magical Games and Sports in 1894, when one of these weapons pierced the referee Nugent Potts through the nose.
J.K. Rowling
#94. Behind us hung a Correggio St. Sebastian with the habitual Buchmanite expression on his face. "Awful tripe," said Uncle Matthew. "Fella wouldn't be grinning, he'd be dead with all those arrows in him.
Nancy Mitford
#95. I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.
Karl Kraus
#96. Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.
William Blake
#97. You have given me faith and have grown my faith in Your Word. I don't have faith in my own faith, as if I have accomplished anything myself, but I have faith in You and Your faithfulness to me, which is a shield from the enemy's arrows. Just as You were Abraham's shield
Stormie O'martian
#98. In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains,
On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows,
In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame,
The good deeds a man has done before defend him.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#99. Here she was, a women who could bolt-load a crossbow in under a second, put half a dozen long arrows in the air in fewer than five, blade a target dead through the sweet spot at six meters, on the run, on an off day; and yet knitting a pair of baby booties seemed completely beyond her power.
Justin Cronin
#100. What are the Chinese doing, what are we doing, what are - so we need, both the developed world and the developing world, really need to be moving, once again, getting all your arrows in the same direction if you want to have any impact.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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