Arrows Quotes - Page 17

• The sweet calm sunshine of October, now
  Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mold
  The pur0ple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough
  drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.

  William C. Bryant

  Sweet, Fall, Sunshine

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• Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.

  Edmund Waller

  Mind, Doe, Resistance

  Edmund Waller, Elijah Fenton (1796). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. From Mr. Fenton's Quarto Edition, 1729. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings [including a Portrait.]”, p.39

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• Cupid and my Campaspe play'd
  At cards for kisses - Cupid paid:
  He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows,
  His mother's doves, and team of sparrows;
  Loses them too; then down he throws
  The coral of his lips, the rose
  Growing one's cheek (but none knows how);
  With these, the crystal of his brow,
  And then the dimple of his chin:
  All these did my Campaspe win.
  At last he set her both his eyes -
  She won, and Cupid blind did rise.
  O Love! has she done this for thee?
  What shall, alas! become of me?

  John Lyly

  Love, Mother, Team

  John Lyly, “Cards And Kisses”

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• If you shoot an arrow and it goes real high... Hooray for you.

  Dorian Corey

  Real, Ifs

  "Fictional character: Dorian Corey". "Paris Is Burning", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• I hate the calendar, which is both a circle and a straight line, a wheel and an arrow, grinding each anniversary, each day a reminder of my failures, my lost plans, unfulfilled objectives and wishes, the days aren't taken off the calendar, subtracted one by one, but added, another small stone accumulated, another foot moved ahead, the arrow flying forward instead of falling back to earth, when all I want is a complete stop.

  Gregory Galloway

  Hate, Fall, Taken

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• You can learn more about hunting deer with a bow and arrow in a week than a gun hunter will learn in his entire life

  Fred Bear

  Gun, Hunting, Hunters

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• People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.
  Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.

  Brian Eno

  Art, Eye, People

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• Ryan Stout, a straight-arrow-looking kind of guy, shocks the crowd into laughter with his inventive interplay between innocence and a jarringly twisted point of view. He goes from loony to weirdly logical. With him, it’s more than clever writing; his comedy is based on clear and clever thinking.

  Ben Fong-Torres

  Laughter, Clever, Writing

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• I love 'Last Friday Night' by Katy Perry almost as much as 'Karma Police',
  and if you want to straddle that line, you have to take the slings and arrows.

  Chris Martin

  Karma, Friday, Night

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 31, 2011.

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• It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.

  Henry Mackenzie

  Remembrance, Joy, Affliction

  Henry Mackenzie (1854). “The Miscellaneous Works of Henry Mackenzie ...”, p.357

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• As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Elephants, Abuse

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• If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power... they will talk, they will gloat. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Evil, Good Man

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• Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy.

  Terry Pratchett

  Philosophical, Animal, Race

  "Small Gods". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes.

  Kaye Gibbons

  Mother, Children, Blood

  Kaye Gibbons (1998). “On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet.

  Edward Jenks

  Men, Sight, Firsts

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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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

  Archer, Fate, White

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

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• Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.

  Rahman Baba

  Flower, Target, May

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• "Everything is already there in...." How does it come about that [an] arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? - "No, not the dead line on paper; only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that." - That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Doe, True And False, Paper

  "Philosophical Investigations" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, (§ 454), 1953.

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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

  Archer, Sky, Rivers

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• The arrows of malevolence ... however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me; though, whilst I am up as a mark, they will be continually aimed.

  George Washington

  Vulnerable, Mark, Malevolence

  George Washington (1839). “Letters official and private, from the beginning of his presidency to the end of his life. May, 1789, to November, 1794 (v.10) November, 1794, to Demember, 1799 (v.11)”, p.359

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• Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order. The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.

  Alan Lightman

  Past, Order, Law

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.44, Vintage

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• If I were a young man With my bones full of marrow, Oh, if I were a bold young man Straight as an arrow, I'd store up no virtue For Heaven's distant plain, I'd live at ease as I did please And sin once again.

  Robert Graves

  Men, Heaven, Ease

  Robert Graves (1920). “Country Sentiment”

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• The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips, especially when it has been multiplied by the press.

  Heinrich Heine

  Archer, Lips, Bows

  "Religion and Philosophy". Book by Heinrich Heine, 1852.

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• There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart - they are meant to be borne - they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike; but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Pain, Heart, Snow

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.

  Olive Schreiner

  Children, Loneliness, Ignorance

  Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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