Top 100 Sayings About An Arrow
#1. My leg hurts," the soldier whined.
"Of course it does," Halt told him. "I put an arrow through it. Did you expect it not to hurt?
John Flanagan
#2. Sometimes you have no right to be tired! You have to work till you reach the glory! Sometimes you must refuse to repose; you must reach the target that you wish to reach just like an arrow never stopping here and there!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#3. Sometimes, war being the unjust and drastic creature it is, those in whom he invested hopes took an arrow in the chest, the useless, by chance, thrived to irritate him another day.
Paul Hoffman
#4. A man may be as straight as an arrow, but even then he will have some critics.
Umar
#5. No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it.
St. Jerome
#6. My dad was an FBI agent. My mom and dad were straight arrow types, and I had a conservative, suburban Orange County upbringing.
Steve Breen
#7. If you ever shoot a great magical owl with an arrow, you should remember this, Ophelia. Everything is connected. If you touch the ground, you touch the tops of trees. If you touch the trees, you touch the wings of birds.
Karen Foxlee
#8. The Waorani carry out a similar diet with their arrow poison, called curare or, in their language, oomae. This is another amazing product of the indigenous science, a most sophisticated technology that the Waorani extrapolated from an ancient myth.
Jonathon Miller Weisberger
#9. Every boy, in his journey to become a man, takes an arrow in the center of his heart, in the place of his strength. Because the wound is rarely discussed and even more rarely healed, every man carries a wound. And the wound is nearly always given by his father.
John Eldredge
#10. He had never met a girl who shot an arrow straighter than Cupid did
Soroosh Shahrivar
#11. Expectation is like an arrow if it misses the target it aims back at you with double force.
D.j.
#12. What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,' and, 'What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
Sylvia Plath
#13. A prayer without a deed is an arrow without a bow-string; A deed without a prayer is a bow-string without an arrow. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
Paulo Coelho
#14. [...]falcon-winged, falcon-mad, like an unfalling arrow, like an unforgotten thought.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#15. My existence shrank from an arrow of light pointing into the future forever to a speck of light that was the present moment. I got better at living in that point of light, making the world into that point. I paid close attention to it. I loved it very much.
Sarah Manguso
#16. Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order. The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
Alan Lightman
#17. The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.
Mao Tse-tung
#18. In one way an arrow moves, in another way the mind. The mind indeed, both when it exercises caution and when it is employed about inquiry, moves straight onward not the less, and to its object.
Marcus Aurelius
#19. ...the track of the three camels and three pairs of sandals was like an arrow diminishing into infinity across the wavering sand.
Mike Bond
#20. You that give new life to this planet, you that transcend logic, come. I am only an arrow. Fill your bow with me and let fly.
Rumi
#21. A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy force, but never piercing.
Magha
#22. Beloved, no sin of a believer can now be an arrow mortally to wound him, no condemnation can now be a sword to kill him, for the punishment of our sin was borne by Christ, a full atonement was made for all our iniquities by our blessed Substitute and Surety.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#23. You have to relax when you're shooting an arrow. You can't be tense. And that just helps, in your day-to-day life.
Stephen Amell
#24. William Tell's son, Telly, who said as his father was pointing the bow and arrow at the apple on his head, There's gotta be an easier way to kill worms. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#25. I longed to return to that bloody riverbank, to throw myself in the path of the final arrow, to die ignorant, and so, in love. Better to be killed by an arrow than by the words of the one I most trusted.
Robin Wasserman
#26. When she's in the same room as you, she commands your full attention." "Is it that obvious?" "It couldn't have been more obvious if you had painted this is my mate on your forehead with an arrow pointing to Anya.
Kiersten Fay
#27. When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip it's point in honey.
Unknown
#28. I think coaching is confused at times as being an arrow that only goes to a player. Those players send arrows back to you, and that's where a relationship is developed. I don't make a player, and a player doesn't make me a coach. We make each other.
Mike Krzyzewski
#29. Frustration is an important directional arrow. It shows you where to go to move forward. And what to move away from.
Julie Connor
#30. When the clock struck twelve, you dropped whatever you were doing and you went and ate your lunch. You had to have your priorities straight, and Alvin Hobbs figured his priorities were as straight as an arrow. Hunting
Scott Langrel
#31. That's emails for ya: sometimes they're like an arrow that hits so deep in the target, you can't pull it out.
Graham Joyce
#32. Before you marry, you have to get shot by an arrow and fall in love," the boy explained. He paused thoughtfully. "But I don't think the rest of it hurts as much as the beginning.
Lisa Kleypas
#33. I want my life to be a battle cry, a war zone, an arrow pointed and loosed into the heart of domination: patriarchy, imperialism, industrialization, every system of power and sadism.
Lierre Keith
#34. My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
Carly Simon
#36. I'm thrilled to be taking over Green Arrow. What I adore about the Arrow is his recklessness. He'll shoot off on an impulse, dispatch someone if they deserve it; his heroism is instinctive.
Ann Nocenti
#37. Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.
Edmund Waller
#38. If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it's fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there's an arrow in your heart ...
Pema Chodron
#39. At the height of creative activity fueled by enthusiasm, there will be enormous intensity and energy behind what you do. You will feel like an arrow that is moving toward the target-and enjoying the journey.
Eckhart Tolle
#40. Speech is like an arrow; it is necessary to aim it by way of reflection before uttering anything.
Burhan Al-Din Al-Zarnuji
#41. The recollection of an injury is ... a rusty arrow and poison for the soul.
Francis Of Paola
#42. An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.
Jeremy Taylor
#43. Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels like a snake.
Suzy Kassem
#44. If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow.
Henry David Thoreau
#45. This will mark the third time that an arrow has entered my chest. The first time brought me to Marianne Engel. The second time separated us.
The third time will reunite us.
Andrew Davidson
#46. As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.
Gautama Buddha
#47. You never can tell when you send a word, Like an arrow shot from a bow By an archer blind, be it cruel or kind, Just where it may chance to go!
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#48. We call this a "bow", Cap'n, and the thing that's sticking out of that fellow's head over on the other side of the trench is called an "arrow". If you put them together just right, they'll do all sorts of nice things to people who aren't nice.
David Eddings
#49. If you are constantly solidifying strong opinions and expectations, it is just as if you are sticking an arrow in your eye.
Lodro Rinzler
#50. An arrow is never afraid of shooting from the bow; but it is afraid of not reaching the target!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#51. The Scriptures are not so much the goal as they are an arrow that points us to the life-changing Christ
Jim Cymbala
#52. I remember once in the Holy Land seeing a sign in the shape of an arrow along a road. It said, "Armageddon, 4 kilometers." If ever there was a sign that made you wonder whether you wanted to continue down a road, this was it.
Benedict Groeschel
#53. Apollo was god of poetry as well as archery, and I'd heard him recite in person. I'd almost rather get shot by an arrow
Rick Riordan
#54. The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.
Leigh Bardugo
#55. Deep sadness is an artist of powers that affects people in different ways. To one it comes like the stroke of an arrow, shocking all the emotions to a sharper life. To another, it comes as the blow of a crushing strike.
Ambrose Bierce
#56. I want to go to the party!'
'I said no.'
'I've been totally good.'
'You shot me with an arrow.
Jenny Colgan
#57. Vengeance is an arrow that in falling oft pierces him who shot it
H. Rider Haggard
#58. I have an arrow living inside my chest that shoots straight toward you - even though I know the sky is falling for us. Even though I know all we're destined for is dust. I can't make it change course. It leads me to you every time I've tried to turn away
Emalynne Wilder
#59. Sometimes, proceeding in the dark and aiming an arrow at the elusive, mythical dragon trumps all the rational arguments for not proceeding. Sometimes, the stakes are so high and the status quo is so unacceptable that taking aim in any direction is better than not shooting at all.
Rebecca J. Anderson
#60. I'm actually a pretty decent human being, and when I'm home I'm straight as an arrow.
Kid Rock
#63. 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
#64. It's basic research: shoot an arrow in the air. Where it lands, paint a bullseye.
Elizabeth Streb
#65. In a sudden inspiration, Florentino Ariza opened a can of red paint that was within reach of the bunk, wet his index finger, and painted the pubis of the beautiful pigeon fancier with an arrow of blood pointing south, and on her belly the words: This pussy is mine.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#66. That's one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself...
Sylvia Plath
#67. 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
#68. This was not a beauty that warmed one. It cut, like a weapon. There was no nuance of gentleness in her, no shading of care, but fair she was, as is the flight of an arrow before it kills.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#69. The Order of the Arrow is a thing of the outdoors rather than the indoors. It was born in an island wilderness. It needs the sun and rain, the woods and the plains, the waters and the starlit sky.
E. Urner Goodman
#70. I shoot an arrow into the air, where it lands I do not care: I get my arrows wholesale!
Curly Howard
#71. A sermon often does a man most good when it makes him most angry. Those people who walk down the aisles and say, "I will never hear that man again," very often have an arrow rankling in their breast.
Charles Spurgeon
#72. An arrow isn't the only thing I shoot straight. If you ever come near my wife, you'll be hauled off in a body bag.
Lucy McConnell
#73. Life is an arrow, therefore you must know What mark to aim at, how to use the bow
Then draw it to the head and let it go!
Henry Van Dyke
#74. I think everyone's an arrow like that, too, aiming into their own centers.
Andrew Smith
#75. If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless.
Aristotle.
#76. I think being an archer is much more integral to Green Arrow and his mythos than it is to Hawkeye.
Jeff Lemire
#77. My guess is that the Jonathan would be as out of place in England or Kazakhstan, the native ground of its ancestors, as I would be in Russia, the native ground of my own. The arrow of natural history won't be reversed: by now the Jonathan's as much an American as I am.
Michael Pollan
#79. The system wants you to be either a bow or an arrow; refuse both, because there is a third choice: To be an archer!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#80. The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.
Lord Byron
#82. My research, even before 1972, moved in directions beyond those cited for the Nobel Memorial Prize. Most of it, in one way or another, deals with information as an economic variable, both as to its production and as to its use.
Kenneth Joseph Arrow
#84. WHO MAKES THESE CHANGES? Who makes these changes? I shoot an arrow right. It lands left. I ride after a deer and find myself chased by a hog. I plot to get what I want and end up in prison. I dig pits to trap others and fall in. I should be suspicious of what I want. DROWNING
Jalaluddin Rumi
#85. An arrow may not be a shocklance, yet it can still kill you.
Robert Jordan
#86. The whole passage was underlined in bleeding, water-soaked black ink. But there was another ink, this one a crisp blue, post-flood, and an arrow led from "How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast.
John Green
#87. How long the thick dark clouds can prevent the truth from shining? The truth is an arrow that can pass through any shield!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#88. I challenge a man to a duel before allowing him near me, and then I take an arrow, dip it in poison, and drive it straight through his heart ... But that's on a good day ... when I purr and feel delightfully amorous. No need to mention what I'd do on a bad one.
Donna Lynn Hope
#90. He hangs on now, pressing his hand lightly against the wall, below the window, waiting for the familiar arrow of pain. Only there is none. An oddly pleasant swell of memory, a wave of warmth flooding over him, sliding back, slowly. It is a first
Judith Guest
#91. Yes!" Narissus unslung his bow and grabbed an arrow from his dusty quiver. "The first one who get that bronze, I will like you almost as much as I like me. I might even kiss you, right after I kiss my reflection!"
"Oh my gods!" the nymphs squealed.
Rick Riordan
#92. 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
#93. I don't really think of myself as an inspirational person.
Instead, I tend to think of myself as being more like one of those guys standing on a busy street corner, twirling a a big pointed arrow.
Except that my sign points toward Heaven.
Jose N. Harris
#94. Now we just need to find someone who is close to the king but is really a spy for Mydogg."
"That should be easy. I could probably shoot an arrow out the window and hit one.
Kristin Cashore
#95. From the ground. They waded waist-deep in the grass, in a compact body, bearing an improvised stretcher in their midst. Instantly, in the emptiness of the landscape, a cry arose whose shrillness pierced the still air like a sharp arrow
Joseph Conrad
#96. 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
#97. Women. You'll interpret anything as love. You see a man wearing an idiotic expression, and you assume he's been struck by Cupid's arrow when in reality, he's digesting a bad turnip.
Lisa Kleypas
#98. The probability of an event is always represented by a single final arrow-no matter how many arrows were drawn, multiplied, and added to achieve it.
Richard Feynman
#99. I have lost my faith in goals. At one time, they were like a religion to me. But I am starting to realize that goals by themselves are nothing more than an arrow pointing in a certain direction. The real magic is in the systems you create.
Mark Edward
#100. Look what I shot. Gale holds up a loaf of bread with an arrow stuck in it, and I laugh.
Suzanne Collins
