Quiver Quotes

• The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Whole, Universe

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

  Robert Blair

  Stupid, Arrows, Guilt

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• The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.

  Lord Byron

  Sweet, Heart, Voice

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.346, Simon and Schuster

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• Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate's: Souls know no conquerors.

  John Dryden

  Fate, Soul, Shields

  John Dryden (1717). “The Dramatick Works of John Dryden, Esq: Don Sebastian, king of Portugal. Amphitryon: or, The two Sosia's. Cleomenes, the Spartan heroe. King Arthur. Love triumphant”, p.37

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• The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone.

  Samuel Johnson

  Moving, Soul, Gone

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.311

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• I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

  Edvard Munch

  Artist, Color, Saws

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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, Arrows, Devil

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• If you don't like it you can kiss my quiver

  Rick Riordan

  Kissing, Ifs

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• When the people stare at the sky and dream of blessedness, or when they quiver with fear for hell after death, their eyes get blinded so they can't see their own right of primogeniture.

  Gerrard Winstanley

  Dream, Eye, Sky

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• Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street... Everything has a secret soul, which is silent more often than it speaks.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Stars, Flower, Moon

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• What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life - the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Time, Heart, Joy

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• I've been up, down, trying to get the feeling again. All around, trying to get the feeling again. The one that makes me shiver, made my knees start to quiver.

  Barry Manilow

  Feelings, Trying, Knees

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• Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

  Khalil Gibran

  Marriage, Wedding, Endless Sea

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• I have a soul that like an ample shield Can take in all, and verge enough for more.

  John Dryden

  Soul, Shields, Enough

  John Dryden (1759). “Don Sebastian, King of Portugal, etc”, p.14

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• We are in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us....How glorious a conversion, so complete and wholesome it is, scarce memory enough of old bondage days left as a standpoint to view it from! In this newness of life we seem to have been so always

  John Muir

  Memories, Views, Cells

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.8, Great West Books

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• As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.

  Khalil Gibran

  Strings

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• The day is done; and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and puts them back into his golden quiver!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Twilight, Done, Golden

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1868). “The Golden Legend”, p.182

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• Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.

  Pat Conroy

  Dream, Lying, Grief

  FaceBook post by Pat Conroy from Oct 15, 2013

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• My voice has a quiver/ A quiver is where you keep arrows until you shoot them.

  Jim Carroll

  Voice, Arrows

  "Void of Course". Book by Jim Carroll, www.theguardian.com. October 1998.

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• I tell you, brethren, if mercies and if judgments do not convert you, God has no other arrows in His quiver.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Arrows, Missionary, Judgment

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• I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.

  Stephen Fry

  Real, Heart, Blood

  "Moab Is My Washpot". Book by Stephen Fry, 1997.

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• When I first started, I was really nervous. You could hear my voice quiver. So I started drinking a bit and that helped. A lot of entertainers have a few drinks before going onstage and don't overdo it. Me, it turned into a bigger habit. But I stopped that. I was getting older, and I was thinking about my kids. There's enough roadblocks out there without throwing in more yourself.

  Tim McGraw

  Drinking, Kids, Thinking

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• We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun,-a part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.‎

  John Muir

  Nature, Science, Glasses

  John Muir (1997). “John Muir: Nature Writings”, p.161, Library of America

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• Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring in imperceptible and minute ways, accumulating so subtly that they seem not to exist. Yet the tiny shifts in everything--cell replication, the rain of dust motes, lengthening hair, wind-pushed rocks--press inexorably on and on.

  Annie Proulx

  Rain, Hair, Rocks

  Annie Proulx (2011). “Bird Cloud: A Memoir of Place”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Clouds, Eagles

  George Gordon Byron, “English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A Satire”

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