Archer Quotes - Page 2

• I must only warn you of one thing. You have become a different person in the course of these years. For this is what the art of archery means: a profound and far-reaching contest of the archer with himself. Perhaps you have hardly noticed it yet, but you will feel it very strongly when you meet your friends and acquaintances again in your own country: things will no longer harmonize as before. You will see with other eyes and measure with other measures. It has happened to me too, and it happens to all who are touched by the spirit of this art.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Country, Art, Mean

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• Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least motion might drive off on startled wings, but that might gather a flock if it were left undisturbed.

  Edith Wharton

  Moving, Butterfly, Wings

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2116, Delphi Classics

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• A prudent man... must behave like those archers who, if they are skillful, when the target seems too distant, know the capabilities of their bow and aim a good deal higher than their objective, not in order to shoot so high but so that by aiming high they can reach the target.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Men

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• Happy are they who live in the dream of their own existence, and see all things in the light of their own minds; who walk by faith and hope; to whom the guiding star of their youth still shines from afar, and into whom the spirit of the world has not entered! They have not been "hurt by the archers", nor has the iron entered their souls. The world has no hand on them.

  William Hazlitt

  Dream, Hurt, Stars

  William Hazlitt (1930). “The Complete Works of William Hazlitt”, Toronto, Dent

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• A hunter archer can also be out to shock by taking crazy shots. What makes his shots "crazy" is set by excessive risk, judged by hunting-archery standards, which would tend to draw agreement from knowledgeable observers.

  Ernest Sosa

  Crazy, Hunting, Agreement

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• When an archer desires to shoot his arrows successfully, he first takes great pains over his posture and aligns himself accurately with his mark. It should be the same for you who are about to shoot the head of the wicked devil. Let us be concerned first for the good order of sensations and then for the good posture of inner thoughts.'

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Pain, Order, Arrows

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• The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels. I must remember to take enough toilet paper next time.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Funny, Humor, Spain

  "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

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• Ah! some love Paris, / And some Purdue. / But love is an archer with a low I.Q. / A bold, bad bowman, and innocent of pity. / So I'm in love with / New York City.

  Phyllis McGinley

  New York, Love Is, Cities

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• Seville is a tower full of fine archers.... Under the arch of the sky, across the clear plain, she shoots the constant arrow of her river.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Sky, Rivers, Arrows

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• Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?

  James Russell Lowell

  Fate, White, Arrows

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.400

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• When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.

  Zhuangzi

  Skills, Two, Gold

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• English country life is more like Chekhov than The Archers or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.

  Jane Gardam

  Country, Ethics, Sometimes

  Jane Gardam (2007). “The People on Privilege Hill and Other Stories”, Random House

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• No matter what age we are, regress to a certain youthfulness with people we've known our whole lives, especially our parents. And since I've written the brothers as young people a lot - most notably Archer & Armstrong #0 and the upcoming Book of Death: Legends of the Geomancer #4 , it comes very naturally to me.

  Fred Van Lente

  Brother, Book, People

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• In competitive archery, risk assessment has minimal bearing on quality of performance, since the archer has so little choice over shot selection. By contrast, in a hunt, shots vary in quality according to how well selected they may be.

  Ernest Sosa

  Assessment, Choices, Risk

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The capitalist has this over the politician and the clergyman; he has in practice done more to raise the standard of living of the poor than all the government and church programs in history....Monsanto and the Archer Daniels Midland Company have fed more hungry people than all the...soup kitchens combined.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Soup Kitchens, Government, Practice

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• 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

  Anger, Arrows, May

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.74, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You can learn from an ordinary bamboo leaf what ought to happen. It bends lower and lower under the weight of snow. Suddenly the snow slips to the ground without the leaf having stirred. Stay like that at the point of highest tension until the shot falls from you. So, indeed, it is: when the tension is fulfilled, the shot must fall, it must fall from the archer like snow from a bamboo leaf, before he even thinks it.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Fall, Thinking, Snow

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• 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

  Arrows, Target, Shots

  "Thoughts and Aphorisms". Book by Sri Aurobindo, 1913.

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• Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out! The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise. It must be as if the bowstring suddenly cut through the thumb that held it. You mustn't open the right hand on purpose.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Cutting, Thinking, Hands

  Eugen Herrigel (1964). “Zen”

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• A man who has built a world empire with only ideas and with love, not with swords and with archers, is the greatest amongst all the men!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Men, Ideas

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• The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fall, Doe, Mark

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• One thing we do really well on Archer and one thing I've always tried to do in my comedy and my writing and my podcast is to never speak down to my audience.

  Aisha Tyler

  Writing, Comedy, Speak

  "Aisha Tyler Is a Woman Men Can't Help But Love". Interview with Paul Schrodt, www.esquire.com. May 28, 2014.

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• If asked to sketch a picture of the typical archer I would be hard put. They seem to come in all shapes, sizes, colors and backgrounds. Inwardly they seem to have in common a love for the outdoors, a reverence for wildlife, and a close tie with history. There is nothing they seem to enjoy more than telling tall tales around a campfire or talking about archery to others. It would be difficult to find a more interesting group of people.

  Fred Bear

  Color, Talking, Ties

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• Whoa, I'm your girlfriend now?" Archer shrugged. "We've tried to kill each other, fought ghouls, and kissed a lot. I'm pretty sure we're married in some cultures.

  Rachel Hawkins

  Girlfriend, Ghouls, Culture

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• A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Strength, Wise, Hope

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.38, BookRix

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