Top 100 The Archer Quotes
#1. Admire the art of the archer: he never touches the body and breaks the heart.
Anonymous
#2. The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.
Michel De Montaigne
#3. Archery is still a matter of life and death to the extent that it is a contest of the archer with himself;
Eugen Herrigel
#4. The archer who misses his mark does not blame the target. He stops, corrects himself and shoots again.
Confucius
#5. Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out!" he exclaimed. "The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise.
Eugen Herrigel
#7. The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.
Ross Macdonald
#9. The spider dances her web without knowing there are flies that will get caught in it. The fly, dancing nonchalantly on a sunbeam gets caught without knowing what lies in store. But through both of them "It" dances. So, too, the archer hits the target without having aimed-more I cannot say.
Eugen Herrigel
#10. The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips.
Heinrich Heine
#11. In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.
Confucius
#12. The poet is like the prince of clouds
Who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer;
Exiled on the ground in the midst of jeers,
His giant wings prevent him from walking.
Charles Baudelaire
#13. 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
#14. And so in time the rowboat and I became one and the same-like the archer and his bow or the artist and his paint. What I learned wasn't mastery over the elements; it was mastery over myself, which is what conquest is ultimately all about.
Richard Bode
#15. The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
Oliver Goldsmith
#16. Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#17. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Kahlil Gibran
#18. It was chosen by the archer and though it is a long way off, we cannot blame it when we fail to hit it. In this lies the beauty of the way of the bow: you can never excuse yourself by saying that your opponent was stronger than you.
Paulo Coelho
#19. The arrow shot by the archer may or may not kill a single person. But stratagems devised by wise men can kill even babes in the womb.
Kautilya
#20. Oh, many a shaft at random sent
Finds mark the archer little meant!
And many a word at random spoken
May soothe, or wound, a heart that's broken!
Walter Scott
#21. The Archer sighed and closed his eyes as he tried to refocus on the activity around him. He really hated that name. The Archer. It was a stupidass name. Next time he decided to go all evil genius on the world, he was going to pick his own fucking name.
Abigail Roux
#22. 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
#23. I can't believe you're going to sacrifice your archery mojo for MacReive." Lucia would forfeit her fantastical skill with a bow if she was unchaste. "Who am I going to hang out with when your a talentless nobody?
Kresley Cole
#24. If I get a chance to act, I will act. And then I'm usually the happiest person around.
Anne Archer
#25. If you take care of the pennies, the pounds will take care of themselves.
Jeffrey Archer
#26. When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.
Dale Archer
#27. Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.
Archer John Porter Martin
#29. T'Pol." Archer made his voice sting with command. "You're coming dangerously close to violating a rule of the bridge. Don't nag the captain.
Dean Wesley Smith
#30. Back in the spring of 2010, Stieg Larsson's agent was having a good day.
Jodie Archer
#31. Archer let out a breath, and she turned to find him grinning, slowly shaking his head.
"I think 'stunning,' 'beautiful,' and 'dazzling' are the words you're looking for.
Sarah J. Maas
#32. They say stress is the silent killer. But poison darts are also pretty damn quiet.
Sterling Archer
#33. Post traumatic stress disorder starts out with nightmares, flashbacks and actually reliving the event. And this happens over and over and over and over in your mind. If you let it go on, it can become chronic and become hard if not impossible to treat.
Dale Archer
#34. And I did wonder - because it's now three years ago since I left prison - whether there would come a time when I would forget it, or it would be in the past as anything else might be - no, it's there every day of my life.
Jeffrey Archer
#35. Archer had reverted to all his old inherited ideas about marriage. It was less trouble to conform with the tradition and treat May exactly as all his friends treated their wives than to try to put into practice the theories with which his untrammelled bachelorhood had dallied.
Edith Wharton
#36. It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives.
Jeffrey Archer
#37. Florentyna sent a directive to all managers in the Group that the finest suite in each hotel was no longer to be the Presidential Suite but was to be renamed the George Novak Suite.
Jeffrey Archer
#38. We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account.
Jeffrey Archer
#39. And who shall you be once you don your grand disguise?"
"La luna," she said with a smile.
"Then I shall be la notte to your moon" Archer lifted the hard black mask he held and slipped it over his thinner silk one
Kristen Callihan
#40. That is one fireball of a girlfriend you got there. The OR team was drawing straws to see who would go out and update her and your family. I think she actually had them scared.
Jay Crownover
#41. Are you saying that it hurts to look at me?' 'I'm saying you're the first sunlight I've glimpsed in a long time,' he said.
Stephanie Archer
#42. 'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.
Dale Archer
#43. Archer, is there a servant girl in my fortress you haven't taken to bed? I announce you're leaving and within minutes two of them are at each other's throats, and another is crying her eyes out in the scullery. Honestly. You've been here all of nine days."
- Roen, "Fire
Kristin Cashore
#44. It's mass confusion. I'm guessing on every shot. About the only thing left for me is acupuncture in the brain.
George Archer
#45. It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.
Aristotle.
#46. If I'd had any doubts about how Archer felt about me, they were eradicated when I saw the look on his face. I'd never had my spleen ripped out, but if I had, I figured I'd make the same face Archer wore now.
Rachel Hawkins
#47. Never seek the wind in the field. It is useless to try and find what is gone.
Jeffrey Archer
#48. Kids take work, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears and are a full time job. You have to commit, for better or worse and then give your all and hope for the best. The one thing you can never, ever do is give up and say, 'Oooops, never mind, my bad, you can take this one back!'
Dale Archer
#49. Joanna's quietly intent nature contrasted sharply with Holly's vibrancy. While Miss Brewster's flirtation stroked his ego, the spiritual maturity Miss Robbin's exhibited commanded his admiration and respect.
Karen Witemeyer
#50. Cross."
His head popped up a few shelves over. "What?"
"Check out the magic crap."
He shot me a look. "Oh, is that what we're supposed to be doing? Because I've just been drawing hearts and our initials in the dirt."
Sophie + Archer
Rachel Hawkins
#51. Just because something awful happens to someone else, it doesn't mean the issues in your life should take any less importance.
Kiki Archer
#52. I don't know if i can," I said, looking up into Archer's eyes. "Honestly, Archer ... I'm tired of being scared, tired of loving you on one hand and hating you on the other.
J.L. McCoy
#53. Classic Cock. Cock Zero. Diet Cock. Cherry Cock." He chuckled. "Boy, they have all the cock products.
Nicole Archer
#54. I have twice met Jeffrey Archer, and on both occasions was struck by the firmness of his handshake - and the way he looked me straight in the eye, too.
Craig Brown
#55. Maybe there was a place where the people were safe, where Archer and his kin had carved out a place free from danger. Or maybe the dark magic her father had feared had consumed them all, and turned the only boy she'd ever loved into a monster beyond reckoning.
Anonymous
#56. Master storytellers like Jeffrey Archer and Arthur Hailey use simple language. But they manage to grab the attention of the readers right from page one. I'll consider myself a good storyteller the day people believe it's OK to be late for work or postpone deadlines just to finish reading my book.
Ashwin Sanghi
#57. cleaning lady! The gunk I got out of your carpet and kitchen counters? Grrr-oss!" Sam grinned. "We'll talk about it when I get there. Bye!" He called
David Archer
#59. I love you, Half-Pint. Love that little baby. You understand where I'm at with all of that?" ( ... ) "I know you aren't on the same page as me just yet, Cora, and for right now I'm happy enough we're reading the same book. Eventually you have to turn the page, though, you got me?
Jay Crownover
#60. Captain Reed eyed him thoughtfully. "I built my whole life around the stories they about me. You know what I learned?"
Archer shook his head.
"What you do makes you who you are....
Traci Chee
#61. Intentionally, or unintentionally, Kat had spoken with her eyes; tenderly and lovingly conveying a message to Freya that her tongue wouldn't let her speak. It was glaringly obvious they both felt it. The words were not important. The pauses, gazes, and drawn out breaths were what mattered.
Kiki Archer
#62. Did I make you spend so much time at the office? Did I make you play three rounds of golf last weekend? Answer: No, I didn't. I was too busy pinning your wife's ankles to her ears.
Sterling Archer
#63. At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.
Jeffrey Archer
#64. For the Indians, cricket is not a game, it's a religion.
Jeffrey Archer
#65. Remember the Wizard Archer's drill arrows that rescued the entombed miners? Well, we're drilling holes in your swiss cheese building to rescue you from a costly boner!
Robert Bernstein
#66. Settled for a blooming redhead from Waco, Takes-us, name of Molly Bea Archer, carefully cut her out of the pack and trundled her, tipsy and willing, back to the Busted Flush.
John D. MacDonald
#67. I told you the truth at the bridge. I don't have a good excuse. Blame it on a bad mood." Tate dips his chin, and his grin shoots my heart to the ceiling. "If I tell you I'm sorry a hundred more times, will you forgive me? 'Cause I'll do it, if that's what it takes.
Jennifer Archer
#68. Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an array of about 200 separating funnels.
Archer John Porter Martin
#69. I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.
Im Dong-Hyun
#70. In the modern food landscape, the Krafts, Monsantos, and Archer Daniels Midlands are standing in the way of food democracy.
Brian Halweil
#71. You've a good heart,Joanna Robbins,he said from his perch on the wagon seat. It's easy to see why Jackson admires you.
Karen Witemeyer
#72. Get out of my head." "I can't help it," Archer replied from where he sat on the couch. "You're broadcasting your thoughts so damn loudly I feel like I need to go sit in the corner and start rocking, whispering Daemon's name over and over again.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#73. I am a stage actor. I do mostly improv comedy. The only national television stuff is 'Archer' and' Frisky Dingo.'
Amber Nash
#74. Archer looked down with wonder at the familiar spectacle. It surprised him that life should be going on in the old way when his own reactions to it had so completely changed.
Edith Wharton
#75. If you have to pay a bill, always make it look as if the amount is of no consequence.
Jeffrey Archer
#76. A WEEK BEFORE commencement, at which Stoner was to receive his doctorate, Archer Sloane offered him a full-time instructorship at the University.
John Edward Williams
#77. Two men? Two big young men? Calling at Maggie's kitchen door? No, he did not like this one bit, but he wouldn't give Archer the satisfaction of being obvious about it. "They
Grace Burrowes
#79. Like the archers of Agincourt, John O'Neal and the 254 Swiftboat Veterans took down their own haughty Frenchman.
Ann Coulter
#80. 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
#81. the descent was going to be more difficult than the ascent.
Jeffrey Archer
#82. Bethyl Ann has vomited words like she ate the dictionary.
Jennifer Archer
#83. There was an intruder on a forbidden part of the island, and the security system was compromised. Another image of Archer's sword slicing through a ghoul came to mind. Yeah, compromised was one word for it.
Rachel Hawkins
#84. As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
Gautama Buddha
#85. the only failure that cannot be excused is the failure to act on an injustice or to right a wrong. Those are the failures history shuns because the people who stand by and allow evil to occur are very nearly as bad as the evil-doers themselves." Archer
April White
#86. And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles.
David Foster Wallace
#87. You're so bossy." "Why is a woman always described as bossy, when if a man did the same thing he'd be thought of as decisive, commanding and displaying qualities of leadership?
Jeffrey Archer
#88. Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
Dale Archer
#89. Elliot handed him the controller. "Okay,
Kira Archer
#90. Wasn't history full of the destruction of precious things?
Henry James
#91. I have experienced both triumph and disaster, and, to quote Kipling, have treated those two imposters just the same.
Jeffrey Archer
#92. Too frightened to set a precedent, but quite happy to pass the buck.
Jeffrey Archer
#93. He was becoming aware that there was no such thing as over-the-top with Lawrence Davenport, as long as you were talking to Lawrence Davenport about Lawrence Davenport.
Jeffrey Archer
#94. Where the heck was I while you were playing Grand Theft Cellar?
Rachel Hawkins
#95. But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.
Jeffrey Archer
#96. Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.
Jeffrey Archer
#97. So, you take no prisoners, huh?'
Flynn leaned in close. Her pulse clicked up a gear at the deliberate invasion of her personal space. 'No, sweetie. We take prisoners, of the short, female variety. We just don't fight fair when we catch 'em.
Fiona Archer
#98. She realised with every inch of her being that she wanted Freya; she was in love with Freya. Her mind, with its perfectly rational arguments, had list the battle with her heart. She felt it. It was real. The conflict was torture.
Kiki Archer
#99. Edgar Hoover? I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in.
Jeffrey Archer
#100. The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle
Jeffrey Archer
