Arrows Quotes - Page 6

• I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though some of us are more clever than others at disguising our robberies. The reason writers are such slow readers is that we are ceaselessly searching for things we can steal and then pass off as our own: a natty bit of syntax, a seamless transition, a metaphor that jumps to its target like an arrow shot from an aluminum crossbow.

  Joseph Epstein

  Clever, Writing, Syntax

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• An arrow may not be a shocklance, yet it can still kill you.

  Robert Jordan

  May, Stills

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.173, Macmillan

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• A sermon often does a man most good when it makes him most angry. Those people who walk down the aisles and say, "I will never hear that man again," very often have an arrow rankling in their breast.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, People, Doe

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• There are many other arrows in our diplomatic quiver.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Quiver, Diplomatic

  Condoleezza Rice's remarks on Iran, www.nytimes.com. May 31, 2006.

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• The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology. But for human history, set in the arrow of time, there appears to be one intolerable stumbling-block. This is the catastrophic failure in human values and decency.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Block, Technology, Long

  "The Crucible of Creation". Book by Simon Conway Morris, 1998.

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• In February 1953, I was making a second picture with Jeff Chandler, one called War Arrow. Jeff was a real sweetheart, but acting with him was like acting with a broomstick.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Real, War, Acting

  "'Tis Herself: An Autobiography". Book by Maureen O'Hara and‎ John Nicoletti, 2004.

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• Cupid has offered his arrows for Jesus to try;He has offered his bow for the game.But Jesus went weeping away, and left him there wondering why.

  Harold Monro

  Jesus, Games, Trying

  HAROLD MONRO (1935). “TWENTIETH CENTURY POETRY”

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• Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows.

  Dan Simmons

  Fate, Men, Enemy

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• Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pain, Archer, Giving

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• She wasn't that tough on me, but I think she was often a little frightened - being a single parent. So it begets this quality of desired absoluteness that doesn't really exist. My sister could crack her up. She'd be getting into trouble and put the Steve Martin arrow through her head and mom would start to laugh. I didn't have the same sort of wiliness.

  Ashley Judd

  Mom, Thinking, Laughing

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• The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it will rise and find the surface: and why not? Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell.

  Truman Capote

  Love, Beautiful, Dream

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.124, Vintage

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• The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind

  Fred Bear

  Archery, Bows, Mankind

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• Hunting and fishing involve killing animals with devices (such as guns) for which the animals have not evolved natural defenses. No animal on earth has adequate defense against a human armed with a gun, a bow and arrow, a trap that can maim, a snare that can strangle, or a fishing lure designed for the sole purpose of fooling fish into thinking they have found something to eat

  Marc Bekoff

  Animal, Gun, Thinking

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• That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

  Sylvia Plath

  July, Rockets, Lasts

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.44, Hamilton Books

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• Peace is achieved with rice and salt, not with katanas and arrows

  Uesugi Kenshin

  Salt, Rice

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• Trying to be Sherlock Holmes is like trying to catch an arrow in mid-flight.

  Jeremy Brett

  Trying, Flight, Holmes

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• There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn... No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely

  Mary Leakey

  Science, Yield, Hair

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• 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 which every arrow of moral action flies.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Religion, Depth, Bows

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2012). “An Interpretation of Christian Ethics”, p.8, Westminster John Knox Press

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• That ... is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.

  Ralph Ellison

  Life, Moving, World

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.31, Vintage

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• 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 slings and arrows of being made fun of to such a degree that I couldn't get through the day.

  Jim Parsons

  Fun, School, Average

  "Big Bang Theory: The Jim Parsons Interview". Interview with Allie Townsend, techland.time.com. September 23, 2010.

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• You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows.

  Baltasar Gracian

  War, Use, May

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.95, Shambhala Publications

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• Children are arrows in a quiver, and they are to be trained as missionaries and shot at the Devil.

  Jim Elliot

  Children, Devil, Quiver

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• The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

  Paulo Coelho

  Relaxation, Shooting, Way

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• I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Truth, Lying, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.78

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• Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an important arrow in the rhetorical quiver. After all, it exists for a reason.

  Constance Hale

  Writing, Passive Voice, Suffering

  "Mistakes were made" by Lisa Dusenbery, therumpus.net. May 02, 2012.

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