Arrows Quotes

325 quotes by 262 authors

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
To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to… — Thomas Browne
But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow. — Billy Collins
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… — Mark Edward
It's basic research: shoot an arrow in the air. Where it lands, paint a bullseye. — Elizabeth Streb
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… — Sarah Manguso
To define [Canada] or its literature seems like putting a finger on Zeno's arrow: no sooner do you think you have done it than it… — M. G. Vassanji
Oh! now to be alone, on some grand height, Where heavenâ€™s black curtains shadow all the sight, And watch the swollen clouds their bosom clash,… — Robert Montgomery
You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows. — Baltasar Gracian
That ... is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang. — Ralph Ellison
The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends the bow from… — Reinhold Niebuhr
As the arrow, loosed from the bow by the hand of the practiced archer, does not rest till it has reached the mark, so men… — Soren Kierkegaard
My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I know this? Because… — Georg Cantor
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… — Jim Parsons
I was a straight arrow, a control freak. I didn't do drugs or drink, and this was the '70s. I didn't like the loss of… — George Saunders
We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous,… — Susan Sontag
I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following… — Jonathan Lethem
I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though some of us… — Joseph Epstein
I don't think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of the bow and… — Fidel Castro
Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow… — Khalil Gibran

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