Bows Quotes · Page 8

Nor does Apollo keep his bow continually drawn. [Lat., Neque semper arcum Tendit Apollo.]

— Horace

As a southern man, there's two things I'm definitely not scared of: bow ties and white pants.

— Justin Townes Earle

I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

— Jodi Picoult

Namaste. It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you.

— Jennifer Donnelly

Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do.

— Claes Oldenburg

If you're a boxing referee, it's probably illegal to wear a bow tie that spins or changes colors.

— Jack Handey

You won't even take your bow? Are you planning to throttle a moose with your bare hands, then?

— Kristin Cashore

All Mongol women are born to the horse and the bow.

— Zhu Zhu

At the end of the archana, prostrate, then get up and, remaining on the same spot, turn around clockwise 3 times just…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness that impairs, all griefs that bow, Find their sole voice in that victorious…

— Matthew Arnold

The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and…

— Zhuangzi

Broken things are powerful."Things about to break are stronger still.The last shot from the brittle bow is truest.

— Eugene McCarthy

Only the inner vision of God, only the God-blindedness of unreservedly dedicated souls, only the utterly humble ones can bow and break…

— Thomas Raymond Kelly

He who is silent and bows his head dies every time he does so. He who speaks aloud and walks with his…

— Giovanni Falcone

According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.

— Maria Edgeworth

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

— Charles Buxton

Your mother sounds like a formidable woman," Valek said into the silence. "You have no idea," Leif replied with a sigh. "Well,…

— Maria V. Snyder

You were the best birthday present I ever got." "Thank you." "I wanted to give you something back, but I've got to…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

For the most part, it is true, ordinary men and women regard mathematics with energetic distaste, counting its concepts as rhapsodic as…

— David Berlinski

Coercive measures may have a restraining effect for a time, but can never subdue an untractable spirit: it is only by engaging…

— Mary Hays

One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword or the throne…

— Shane Claiborne

Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow…

— Thomas Hood

Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so…

— George Orwell

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow…

— Albert Einstein

There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The…

— Robert Breault

The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all…

— George Orwell

The intelligent and good man holds in his affections the good and true of every land -- the boundaries of countries are…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It was the hard work of our people, the freedom they enjoyed and their faith in God that built this country and…

— Ronald Reagan

He gave me the brochure. It was about the Hunters of Artemis. The front read, A WISE CHOICE FOR YOUR FUTURE! Inside…

— Rick Riordan

Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we…

— Albert Camus

There are great parents of small children - they keep their little hair in bows - but those parents are not always…

— Maya Angelou

The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which…

— Anonymous

Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I was born with this bow tie made of celluloid on my collar.

— Sergio Leone

Nothing clears a troubled mind better than shooting a bow.

— Fred Bear

I never go black tie. I never grew up wearing ties or bow ties or anything.

— Theophilus London

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

— Margaret Atwood

Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows.

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law.

— George Eliot

If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance.

— Shunryu Suzuki