Arrows Quotes

• Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Birthday, Time

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• You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

  Khalil Gibran

  Children, Parenting, Archery

  Prophet (1923) "On Children"

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• Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.

  Bill Moyers

  Motivational, Ideas, Bows

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• Life is an arrow, therefore you must know What mark to aim at, how to use the bow-- Then draw it to the head and let it go!

  Henry Van Dyke

  Life, Let It Go, Use

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• Follow your arrow / Wherever it points.

  Kacey Musgraves

  Song: Follow Your Arrow, Album: Same Trailer Different Park, 2013

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• As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

  Helen Keller

  Eagles, Hands, Skills

  Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

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• Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.

  Georg Hermes

  Death, Dying, Lasts

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• Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.

  William Blake

  Fire, Clouds, Desire

  Milton preface (1804 - 1810)

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• The arrow will not always find the mark intended.

  Horace

  Mark

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• A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fate, Men, Honor

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• Whatever you focus on, you become. That is the key line, you know. Meditation is the bow and concentration is the arrow.

  Frederick Lenz

  Keys, Focus, Meditation

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• Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Cupid, Traps

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens (1824). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq., with Glossarial Notes and a Sketch of the Life of Shakespeare”, p.128

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• You can always spot the pioneers by the arrows in their backs.

  William H. Calvin

  Pioneers, Spots

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• Im about as straight an arrow as youll find out there.

  Deborah Norville

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

  Thiruvalluvar

  Rabbits, Lions, Strive

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

  Genghis Khan

  Broken, Indestructible

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• One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Victory, Bows, Silent

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.50, e-artnow

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• Each arrow you shoot off carries its own target into the decidedly secret tangle

  Paul Celan

  Secret, Target, Carrie

  Paul. Celan (2011). “Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan”, p.59, Wesleyan University Press

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• No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

  Martha Beck

  Self Esteem, Loss, Giving

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• Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies.

  Bob Dylan

  Sweet, Time, Passion

  Song: Dark Eyes, Album: Empire Burlesque, 1985

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• The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make.

  William Shakespeare

  Invisible, Cupid, Wounds

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.227

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• Our priorities are most visible in how we use our time. Someone has said, “Three things never come back—the spent arrow, the spoken word, and the lost opportunity.” We cannot recycle or save the time allotted to us each day. With time, we have only one opportunity for choice, and then it is gone forever.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Opportunity, Priorities, Forever

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• Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense,
  The surest guard is innocence:
  None knew, till guilt created fear,
  What darts or poisoned arrows were

  Horace

  Guilt, Needs, Defense

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• As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Inspiration, Thinking

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• The probability that the bowman's arrow hits the deer does not lie in the arrow or the deer. It lies in the bowman's mind.

  Bart Kosko

  Lying, Mind, Doe

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