Bows Quotes - Page 6

• You never can tell when you send a word, Like an arrow shot from a bow By an archer blind, be it cruel or kind, Just where it may chance to go!

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Archer, Anger, Arrows

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.74, Jazzybee Verlag

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• My first act as president is a prayer. I ask you to bow your heads: Heavenly Father, we bow our heads and thank You for Your love. Accept our thanks for the peace that yields this day and the shared faith that makes its continuance likely. Make us strong to do Your work, willing to head and hear Your will, and write on our hearts these words: 'Use power to help people." For we know that we are given power, not to advance our own purposes, nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power, and it is to serve people. Help us to remember it Lord, Amen.

  George H. W. Bush

  Strong, Prayer, Father

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1989

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• Better is to bow than break.

  John Heywood

  Prudence

  "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

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• Abundance is an expansion of energy. Abundance is a form of gratitude, a generosity, a modesty, a bow toward others - what we can give, what we can share, rather than what we can take.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Gratitude, Generosity, Giving

  "Exclusive: Terry Tempest Williams On Sacred Rage, Abundance, and the Upcoming White House Tar Sands Pipeline Action". Interview with Jerry Cope, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2011.

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• Our enemies must not deceive themselves-in the 2,000 years of German history known to us, our people have never been more united than today. The Lord of the Universe has treated us so well in the past years that we bow in gratitude to a providence which has allowed us to be members of such a great nation. We thank Him that we also can be entered with honor into the ever-lasting book of German history!

  Adolf Hitler

  Gratitude, Book, Past

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”

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• As a southern man, there's two things I'm definitely not scared of: bow ties and white pants.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Men, Two, White

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• A tease is a con. You press a spot because you know that it can be pressed, and while the sucker is feeling the pleasure or the pain resulting from the pressure, you take something from him. ...A flirt doesn't do that. A flirt does a dance within the context of giving pleasure. Referring to this, referring to that. And suddenly, following the references, you find a little surprise. Nothing enormous. Nothing like 'Feed on me.' Nothing like that. Something small with a bow on it. It's a pleasure. A surprise, and a *gift*.

  George W. S. Trow

  Pain, Flirting, Giving

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• Try all things by the written word, and let all bow down before it. You are in danger of [fanaticism] every hour, if you depart ever so little from Scripture; yea, or from the plain, literal meaning of an text, taken in connection with the context.

  John Wesley

  Taken, Trying, Littles

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• The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to the unknowable. The man who bows in that final direction is either a saint or a fool. I have no use for either.

  Roger Zelazny

  Men, Sight, Saint

  "Lord of Light". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1967.

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• Passion and strife bow down the mind

  Virgil

  Passion, Mind, Strife

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• We have seen that the Son of God created the world for this very end, to communicate Himself in an image of His own excellency. ... When we behold the light and brightness of the sun, the golden edges of an evening cloud, or the beauteous (rain)bow, we behold the adumbrations of His glory and goodness; and in the blue sky, of his mildness and gentleness.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Rain, Son, Sky

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• The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

  Richard Wright

  Art, Halloween, Imagination

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• Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace.

  Thomas Watson

  Prayer, Arrows, Grace

  Thomas Watson (2013). “A Body of Divinity”, p.238, Lulu Press, Inc

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• May therefore God give us the strength to continue to do our duty and with this prayer we bow in homage before our dead heroes, before those whom they have left behind in bereavement, and before all the other victims of this war.

  Adolf Hitler

  Prayer, War, Hero

  "Voices of History, 1942-43" edited by Franklin Watts, New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., (p. 202), 1943.

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• I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, War, Rely Upon

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• I'm really not into that super-crazy-colour, smiley-faces-on-the-front-of-your-dress look. That's not my thing. You're not going to see me in pink. Or anything frilly. Or a tutu. Or bows.

  Erin Wasson

  Crazy, Dresses, Looks

  "The close-up". Interview with Simon Chilvers, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2009.

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• Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God.

  Billy Graham

  Feet, Grace, Confession

  Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I am pretty bow-legged. It's annoying.

  Shaun White

  Annoying, I Am Pretty

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2010.

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• Mans nature indicates that he was created for three things: To think, to worship and to work. But thinking is not enough. Men are made to worship also, to bow down and adore in the presence of the Mystery inexpressible.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Thinking, Three

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• No other city in the U.S. can divest the visitor of so much money with so little enthusiasm. In Dallas, they take away with gusto; in New Orleans, with a bow; in San Francisco, with a wink and a grin. In New York, you're lucky if you get a grunt.

  Fletcher Knebel

  New York, New Orleans, Cities

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• It's no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow.

  George Herbert

  Fishes

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.329

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• Yes!--still I love thee: Time, who sets
  His signet on my brow,
  And dims my sunken eye, forgets,
  The heart he could not bow;--
  Where love, that cannot perish, grows
  For one, Alas! that little knows
  How love may sometimes last;
  Like sunshine wasting in the skies
  When clouds are overcast.

  Rufus Dawes

  Heart, Eye, Sunshine

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• Getting to play with Thor's hammer while he stroked my bow

  Jeremy Renner

  Play, Hammers

  "Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Clark Gregg, Cobie Smulders and Joss Whedon Talk THE AVENGERS". Interview, collider.com. April 25, 2012.

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• God takes the most eminent and choicest of His servants for the choicest and most eminent afflictions. They who have received most grace from God are able to bear most afflictions from God. Affliction does not hit the saint by chance, but by direction. God does not draw His bow at a venture. Every one of His arrows goes upon a special errand and touches no breast but his against whom it is sent. It is not only the grace, but the glory of a believer when we can stand and take affliction quietly

  Joseph Caryl

  Arrows, Grace, Special

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• I value science--none can prize it more,
  It gives ten thousand motives to adore:
  Be it religious, as it ought to be,
  The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.

  Abraham Coles

  Religious, Heart, Science

  Abraham Coles (1866). “The Microcosm: A Poem, Read Before the Medical Society of New Jersey at Its Centenary Anniversary: with the Address Delivered as President, Jan. 24, 1866”, p.22

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