Archer Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot: unbrace them when the shooting is over. Were they kept always strung they would break and fail the archer in time of need. So it is with men. If they give themselves constantly to serious work, and never indulge awhile in pastime or sport, they lose their senses and become mad.

  Herodotus

  Sports, Men, Giving

  Herodotus (2017). “The Histories of Herodotus”, p.133, Aegitas

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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 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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• Of everything I have done, 'The Archers' always gets the most excitement; there's a sort of uncontrollable joy from fans of the program.

  Felicity Jones

  Joy, Fans, Done

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• The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.

  Ross Macdonald

  Kind, Novel, Various

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• Like the archers of Agincourt, John O'Neal and the 254 Swiftboat Veterans took down their own haughty Frenchman.

  Ann Coulter

  Politics, Veteran, Frenchmen

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• The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Lying, Heart, Men

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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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• Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow that is stable.

  Khalil Gibran

  Children, Arrows, Hands

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me.

  Edith Wharton

  Communication, Eye, Voice

  Edith Wharton (2012). “The Age of Innocence”, p.231, Courier Corporation

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• My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I know this? Because I have studied it from all sides for many years; because I have examined all objections which have ever been made against the infinite numbers; and above all because I have followed its roots, so to speak, to the first infallible cause of all created things.

  Georg Cantor

  Years, Roots, Arrows

  "Journey Through Genius". Book by William Dunham, 1990.

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• But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer

  Edith Wharton

  Sacrifice, Long, Chapters

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• Underneath this little stone
  Lies Robert Earl of Huntington;
  No other archer was so good -
  And people called him Robin Hood.
  Such outlaws as he and his men
  Will England never see again.

  Roger Lancelyn Green

  Lying, Men, People

  Roger Lancelyn Green (2010). “The Adventures of Robin Hood”, p.242, Penguin UK

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• Like looking down on a lubricious chess set, isn't it? The king moves in tiny steps, with no direction, like a drunkard trying to avoid the archer's bolt. The others work their strategies and wait for the old man to fall. He has no power, yet all power moves in his orbit and to his mad whim. Do you know there's no fool piece on the chessboard, Kent?" "Methinks the fool is the player, the mind above the moves.

  Christopher Moore

  Kings, Moving, Fall

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• Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

  Zig Ziglar

  Life, Feet, Arrows

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• If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

  Aristotle

  Life, Philosophy, Educational

  "Nicomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1094a.18,

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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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• There is a road that turning always Cuts off the country of Again. Archers stand there on every side And as it runstime's deer is slain, And lies where it has lain.

  Edwin Muir

  Country, Time, Lying

  1937 'The Road'.

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• They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of themselves. I am reminded of the Greek clown who, having seen an archer bring down a flying bird, remarked, sagely: 'You might have saved your arrow, for the bird would anyway have been killed by the fall.'

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Fall, Arrows, Bird

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• Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of her past. She might believe herself wholly in revolt against it; but what had charmed her in it would still charm her even though it were against her will.

  Edith Wharton

  Believe, Intelligent, Past

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2047, Delphi Classics

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• But you comfort me, Gimli, I'm glad to have you standing nigh with your stout legs and your hard axe. I wish there were more of your kin among us. But even more would I give for a hundred good archers of Mirkwood." - Legolas

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Giving, Wish, Comfort

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• Roen snorted. "You two have the strangest relationship in the Dells." Archer smiled slightly. "She won't consent to make it a marriage." "I can't imagine what's stopping her. I don't suppose you've considered being less munificent with your love?" "Would you marry me, Fire, if I slept in no one's bed but yours?" He knew the answer to that, but it didn't hurt to remind him. "No, and I should find my bed quite cramped.

  Kristin Cashore

  Hurt, Fire, Two

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.64, Penguin

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• Archer, is there a servant girl in my fortress you haven't taken to bed? I announce you're leaving and within minutes two of them are at each other's throats, and another is crying her eyes out in the scullery. Honestly. You've been here all of nine days." - Roen, "Fire

  Kristin Cashore

  Girl, Taken, Eye

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.73, Penguin

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• Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

  Edith Wharton

  Thinking, People, Chance

  Edith Wharton (2010). “The Age of Innocence”, p.101, Bibliolis Books

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