Arrows Quotes - Page 11

• I hate arrows. They try to tell me which direction to go. It's like "I ain't going that way, line with two thirds of a triangle on the end!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Hate, Humor

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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

  Archer, Anger, May

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

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

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Mark

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.389, Vintage

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• The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.

  Lord Byron

  Sweet, Heart, Voice

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.346, Simon and Schuster

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• An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Acquisition, Unjust, Injustice

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• My voice has a quiver/ A quiver is where you keep arrows until you shoot them.

  Jim Carroll

  Voice, Quiver

  "Void of Course". Book by Jim Carroll, www.theguardian.com. October 1998.

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• Some bruises you wear like badges of honour: when you got it playing rugby, or quad racing, or falling off something while drunk, no opportunity is lost to show off a good contusion. A bruise inflicted by someone else, however, is a whole other story: it's like a big flashing arrow marking you out as punchable, and before long there'll be boys queuing up to add bruises of their own, as if they'd just been waiting for somebody to show them it could be done.

  Paul Murray

  Fall, Opportunity, Boys

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• Time's arrow, we are told, is a one-way thing. . . Memory's arrow, like the needle of a compass too close to a lodestone, spins in all directions.

  Russell Hoban

  Memories, Way, Compass

  Russell Hoban (2012). “Amaryllis Night and Day”, p.66, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The bow of God's wrath is bent, and His arrows made ready upon the string. Justice points the arrow at your heart and strings the bow. It is nothing but the mere pleasure of God (and that of an angry God without any promise or obligation at all) that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Heart, Wrath, Blood

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• The story of the universe finally comes to an end. For the first time in its life, the universe will be permanent and unchanging. Entropy finally stops increasing because the cosmos cannot get any more disordered. Nothing happens, and it keeps not happening, forever. It's what's known as the heat-death of the universe. An era when the cosmos will remain vast and cold and desolate for the rest of time the arrow of time has simply ceased to exist. It's an inescapable fact of the universe written into the fundamental laws of physics, the entire cosmos will die.

  Brian Cox

  Law, Forever, Cosmos

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• As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

  Akhenaton

  Courage, Heart, Rocks

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• Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace.

  Thomas Watson

  Prayer, Grace, Saint

  Thomas Watson (2013). “A Body of Divinity”, p.238, Lulu Press, Inc

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• You step forward and make it real for a start. You choose a sensible moment in history. Funnily enough, England was bankrupt and the moment is the death of Richard The Lionheart... Richard takes an arrow in the neck collecting a small debt from a small castle on his way home from the Crusades because he's penniless.

  Ridley Scott

  Real, Home, Castles

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Zoe readied her arrows. Grover lifted his pipes. Thalia raised her shield and I noticed a tear running down her cheek. Suddenly it occurred to me: this had happened to her before.She had been cornered on Half- Blood Hill. She'd willingly given her life for her friends. But this time she couldn't save us.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Blood, Tears

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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

  George R. R. Martin

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• Take care with your words, Jacquetta, especially in cursing. Only say the things you mean, make sure you lay your curse on the right man. For be very sure that when you put such words out in the world they can overshoot-like an arrow, a curse can go beyond your target and harm another. A wise woman curses very sparingly.

  Philippa Gregory

  Wise, Mean, Men

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The Lady of the Rivers”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• We need an ally of Mydogg's or Gentian's pretending to be among the most loyal allies of the king,' Brigan said. 'Shouldn't be so hard, really. If I shot an arrow out the window I'd probably hit on.

  Kristin Cashore

  Kings, Allies, Needs

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.135, Penguin

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• There is a coldness to the Clave, it is true. We are dust and shadows. But you are like the heroes of ancient times, like Achilles and Jason.” “Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes; the Angel knows why anyone would want to be one.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hero, Angel, Fate

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts for why we cannot turn an omelet into an egg, why ice cubes never spontaneously unmelt in a glass of water, and why we remember the past but not the future. And the origin of the asymmetry we experience can be traced all the way back to the orderliness of the universe near the big bang. Every time you break an egg, you are doing observational cosmology.

  Sean M. Carroll

  Time, Past, Glasses

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• Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Running, Time, Circles

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.99, Hachette UK

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

  Homer Burton Adkins

  Business, Science, Air

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• You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is not a happy thing to possess, for nothing on earth - no goal, no person how ever beloved - will answer it. It points to the sky and to the heavens and the stars and when it cannot reach them, it must fall back to pierce your heart.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Stars, Fall, Heart

  "Darkfall: Book One Of The Legendsong". Book by Isobelle Carmody, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1998.

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• And in this battle, Brother William (Guillaume), Master of the Templars, lost an eye; and he had lost the other on the previous Shrove Tuesday; and that Lord died as a consequence, may God absolve him! And you should know that there was at least an acre of land behind the Templars, which was so covered with arrows fired by the Saracens, that none of the ground could be seen.

  Jean de Joinville

  Brother, War, Eye

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• Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror.

  Yann Martel

  Zoos, Wall, Father

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes when she is able to spend the night with him they are wakened by the three minarets of the city beginning their prayers before dawn. He walks with her through the indigo markets that lie between South Cairo and her home. The beautiful songs of faith enter the air like arrows, one minaret answering another, as if passing on a rumor of the two of them as they walk through the cold morning air, the smell of charcoal and hemp already making the air profound. Sinners in a holy city.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Beautiful, Song, Morning

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