Arrows Quotes - Page 16

• Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophy, Fall, Mind

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• Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Past, Forever, Moments

  Friedrich Schiller (1852). “Poems and Ballads ... translated by Sir E. B. Lytton ... With a brief sketch of Schiller's life”, p.237

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• Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it; no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Sarcasm, Bows, Courtesy

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• The oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. Indeed, his chance to live at all is slim, and if he should survive the arrows of his own outrageous fortune and in the two weeks of his carefree youth find a clean smooth place to fix on, the years afterwards are full of stress, passion, and danger.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Stress, Passion, Oysters

  M. F. K. Fisher (2016). “Consider the Oyster”, p.7, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The attendant on William Rufus, who discharged at a deer an arrow, which glanced against a tree and killed the king, was no murderer, because he had no such design. And, on the other hand, a man who should lie in wait to assassinate another, and pull the trigger of a gun with that intent, would be morally a murderer, not the less though the gun should chance to miss fire.

  Richard Whately

  Kings, Lying, Gun

  Richard Whately (1860). “Introductory Lessons on Morals, and Christian Evidences”, p.38

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• What are the Chinese doing, what are we doing, what are - so we need, both the developed world and the developing world, really need to be moving, once again, getting all your arrows in the same direction if you want to have any impact.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Moving, Impact, Chinese

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.

  Robert Blair

  Stupid, Guilt, Blunt

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• Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.

  Gautama Buddha

  Change, Wise, Fashion

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• When a man is stimulated by his own thoughts, full of desire and dwelling on what is attractive, his craving increases even more. He is making the fetter even stronger. But he who takes pleasure in stilling his thoughts, practising the contemplation of what is repulsive, and remaining recollected, now he will make an end of craving, he will snap the bonds of Mara. His aim is accomplished, he is without fear, rid of craving and without stain. He has removed the arrows of changing existence. This is his last body.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Men, Dwelling

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• Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.

  Adyashanti

  Armor, Penetrate

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• We need more Democrats in the Senate -Like Custer needed more arrows.

  Ronald Reagan

  Political, Needs, Democrat

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• His [Elijah] heart was beginning to give signs of alarm; he was enjoying being at this woman's side. Love could be a more frightening experience than standing before Ahab's soldier with an arrow aimed at his heart; if the arrow had struck him, he would be dead -and the rest was up to God. But if love struck him, he alone would have to take responsibility for the consequences.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Responsibility

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• Thanksgiving is for real Americans not Indians. We founded this Christian nation. Why if it wasn’t for the God-fearing pilgrims, the natives would still be running around in loin cloths shooting at things with their arrows.

  Sarah Palin

  Christian, Running, Real

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• Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Use, Poisonous, Wounds

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Mar 04, 2017

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• Arrows are cheap; you're expensive.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Risk, Expensive

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• In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is likely to hurt.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Hurt, Order, Belief

  Wei Wu Wei (2004). “Posthumous Pieces”, p.55, Sentient Publications

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• That's emails for ya: sometimes they're like an arrow that hits so deep in the target, you can't pull it out.

  Graham Joyce

  Email, Target, Sometimes

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• The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.

  Mao Zedong

  Real, Hero, Past

  "Qinyuanchun (Snow)". Poem by Mao Zedong, 1945.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.

  Rachel McAdams

  Interesting, Festivals, Canada

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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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