Bows Quotes - Page 26

• Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide us on our own particular journeys.

  Patti Smith

  Journey, Choices, Suffering

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• I do not bow. I do not obey. I do not worship.

  Brendan Myers

  Worship

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• It is as disastrous to true government in the state, and home, to teach all womankind to submit to the authority of man, as divinely ordained, as it is to teach all mankind to bow down to the authority of kings and Popes, as divinely ordained.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Kings, Home, Men

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• Refined, intense, wise, stiring, immediate, subtile, all the charmed qualities gather in Dropping the Bow. These translations are precious jewels. Like the erotic moods they investigate, these versions shimmer and startle with a palpable desire to be heard, and a mystical sense of impermanence. This is a transmission of a vital, extraordinary tradition.

  Anne Waldman

  Wise, Jewels, Erotic

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• By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Hands, People

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• The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Men, He Man, Shows

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• Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good, as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Missing, Rigor, Bent

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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, Arrows, Courtesy

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• No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Reproach

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• So I take my life as I find it, as a life full of grand advantages that are linked indissolubly to my noblest happiness and my everlasting safety. I believe that Infinite Love ordained it, and that, if I bow willingly, tractably, and gladly to its discipline, my Father will take care of it.

  J. G. Holland

  Father, Believe, Discipline

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 115, 1895.

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• I've got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I'd give this one a twang.

  John le Carre

  Giving, Strings

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• The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.

  Publilius Syrus

  Broken, Tension

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 388, 1856.

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• The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven.

  William Shakespeare

  Moon, Heaven, Silver

  William Shakespeare, Phill Evans (2009). “A Midsummer Night's Dream: In Full Colour, Cartoon, Illustrated Format”, p.1, Shakespeare Comic Books

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• O Lord, who art our guide even unto death, grant us, I pray Thee, grace to follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest. In little daily duties to which Thou callest us, bow down our wills to simple obedience.

  Christina Rossetti

  Art, Simple, Grace

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• Praise Him, each savage furious beast
  That on His stores do daily feast;
  And you tame slaves, of the laborious plough,
  Your weary knees to your Creator bow.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Savages, Knees, Worship

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• A Master who cannot bow to a disciple cannot bow to Buddha.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Masters, Disciple

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• In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society, children play with information

  Henry Jenkins

  Children, Hunting, Play

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• Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel,
  Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe.
  All many be well.

  William Shakespeare

  Prayer, Heart, Steel

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1841). “The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakspeare,: With Notes, Original and Selected, and Introductory Remarks to Each Play,”, p.494

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• O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul that, struggling to be free, art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees! and, heart with strings of steel, be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Struggle, Angel

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Hamlet: Revised Edition”, p.361, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Needs

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.288, Best Books on

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• If I feel like I've reached this greatness in my career than there's no more room for growth. I don't think I'm ever going to get there. If I ever get complacent, it's time for me to bow out.

  Taraji P. Henson

  Greatness, Thinking, Careers

  "Taraji P. Henson Talks THINK LIKE A MAN, PERSON OF INTEREST, Upcoming NO GOOD DEED, and Her Wish to Play Either Whitney Houston or a Superhero". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 16, 2012.

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• I've kind of codified certain things for myself, rhythmic patterns and mechanical ways of using the bow to create layers of rhythm. What I'm trying to do is to create a complete piece of music on one instrument.

  Bruce Molsky

  Trying, Pieces, Patterns

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When we don't understand and don't agree with the way life has gone, we are to bow before God and once again confess that we can't understand His wisdom. In faith, we are to accept His wisdom, His Word, and His workings, trusting in Him and obeying His commands.

  Elizabeth George

  Gone, Way, Accepting

  Elizabeth George (1998). “Loving God with All Your Mind”, Harvest House Pub

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• I was so happy with my bow ties from the last kickstarted project that I'm back for more.

  Mike Mills

  Ties, Lasts, Projects

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• We're free out here, really free for the first time. We're floating, literally. Gravity can't bow our backs or break our arches or tame our ideas. You know, it's only out here that stupid people like us can really think. The weightlessness gets our thoughts and we can sort them. Ideas grow out here like nowhere else - it's the right environment for them. Anyone can get into space, if he wants to hard enough. The ticket is a dream.

  Fritz Leiber

  Dream, Stupid, Thinking

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