Arrows Quotes · Page 7

Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. - Areo Hotah

— George R. R. Martin

So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.

— Arthur Eddington

As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.

— William Shakespeare

Nevertheless, I take all of these slings and arrows gladly for you.

— Donald Trump

I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.

— Margaret Atwood

Better the arrow that missed the lion than the one that killed a rabbit.

— Thiruvalluvar

Basic research is like shooting an arrow in the air and, where it lands, painting a target.

— Homer Burton Adkins

“Soap. If you’re going to do that, we might as well kill two birds with one stone.” Fen’s brows furrowed. “Why would…

— Dana Marie Bell

They recognize me. Of course they recognize me. My face is uncovered and I'm standing here outside of District 12 pointing an…

— Suzanne Collins

Seville is a tower full of fine archers… Under the arch of the sky, across the clear plain, she shoots the constant…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

To define [Canada] or its literature seems like putting a finger on Zeno's arrow: no sooner do you think you have done…

— M. G. Vassanji

When you shoot a bow and arrow, you aim at the clouds, not because you expect to hit them, but so that…

— Sun Tzu

A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing…

— Magha

Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of…

— Cassandra Clare

The aim of talk should be like the aim of a flying arrow -- to hit the mark; but to this end…

— Charles Dickens

I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I used to take formal notes in lines of blue, and underline the key words in red, and I realised I needed…

— Tony Buzan

Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for…

— Brian Tracy

I always had hopes of being a big star. But as you get older, you aim a little lower. Everybody wants to…

— Dorian Corey

of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left…

— Paulo Coelho

The attendant on William Rufus, who discharged at a deer an arrow, which glanced against a tree and killed the king, was…

— Richard Whately

Take one more step and I'll put an arrow through you." Will tried to model his voice on the quiet, threatening tone…

— John Flanagan

It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that…

— Tom Stoppard

Chain-mail isn't much defence against an arrow. It certainly isn't when the arrow is being aimed between your eyes.

— Terry Pratchett

One arrow alone can be easily broken but many arrows are indestructible.

— Genghis Khan

Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.

— Edmund Waller

Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

— Anonymous

The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet.

— Edward Jenks

“If you use a wolf to hunt a wolf, keep two arrows near to hand.”

— Elaine Cunningham

I would like to do away with all kind of - all weapons. A dream - totally. Including the bow an arrow.

— Malachy McCourt

Which arrow flies for ever? The arrow that has hit its mark.

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Babur

Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.

— Friedrich Schiller

Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Arrows are like snow or sorrow or secrets--they seem small and light, but their weight adds up.”

— Tyrell Johnson

Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

— Gautama Buddha

They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us...

— Hernando Cortes

Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords and arrows.

— Melina Marchetta

I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother.

— William Shakespeare