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You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. -- Khalil Gibran
I shoot an arrow into the air, where it lands I do not care: I get my arrows wholesale! -- Curly Howard
I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place. -- Laurel Lea
These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri. -- William Henry Ashley
I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs. -- Franka Potente
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone. -- Martha Beck
Arrows are cheap; you're expensive. -- Janet Morris
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. -- William Shakespeare
My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow. -- Carly Simon
I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow. -- Neil Young
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana -- Groucho Marx
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. -- Bill Moyers
I'm actually a pretty decent human being, and when I'm home I'm straight as an arrow. -- Kid Rock
But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow. -- Billy Collins
Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you. -- Georg Hermes
An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent. -- Charles Mackay
If you want to be shot down by the Arrows of Eros, you should get rid of the iron shield called Logic! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill. -- Helen Keller
I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be? -- Orlando Bloom
Some Arrows slay but whom they strike - But this slew all but him - Who so appareled his Escape - Too trackless for a Tomb -- Emily Dickinson
Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire. -- William Blake
Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever. -- Albert Einstein
I keep one simple rule that I only move in one direction - I write the book straight through from beginning to end. By following time's arrow, I keep myself sane. -- Jonathan Lethem
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
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth./The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. -- Khalil Gibran
The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. -- D.T. Suzuki
Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months. -- Eric Clapton
The past is no more and the future is not yet. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment, whose arrow is directed to the moment, who is always here and now; wherever he is, his whole consciousness, his whole being, is involved in the reality of here and in the reality of now. -- Rajneesh
Certainly I feel like I'm the tip of the arrow at times because certainly the national media wants to talk about the fact that I'm a black Republican and some people think of that as zany that a black person would be a conservative but to me what is zany is any person black, white, red, brown or yellow not being a conservative. -- Tim Scott
Fill your armoury with arrows of courage! -- Anuranjita Kumar
I at once commenced the ascent through a shower of arrows. -- George Crook
All I can do is put on my armor and brace for the arrows. -- Jamie Kennedy
How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt. -- Robert Blair
The people who actually do things always suffer the slings and arrows of those who don't. -- Craig Bruce
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. -- Bill Moyers
You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver. -- Foster Friess
When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is. -- Carly Fiorina
Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed. -- Paul Rand
Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides. -- Ferdowsi
Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it. -- Libba Bray
They, astounded at the flash of the armor, and the swiftness of the charge, and attacked by showers of arrows and missiles, half naked as they were, never stopped to resist but gave way. -- Arrian
It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace. -- Jonathan Shapiro
God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement. -- Charles Stanley
These natives are a very good people; for when they saw that I would not remain, they supposed that I was afraid of their bows; and, taking their arrows, the broke them in pieces and threw them into the fire. -- Henry Hudson
It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords, pop-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them, and go off to wage war. -- Sholom Aleichem
I was very average in the social label scale going through school. I was neither the coolest person in school, nor did I suffer the slings and arrows of being made fun of to such a degree that I couldn't get through the day. -- Jim Parsons
Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves. -- William Temple
I often find myself worrying about celebrities. It's an entirely caring thing; it's not like the people who commission those photographs with cruel arrows to go on the covers of the celebrity magazines. The photographs show botched plastic surgery, raging eczema, weight gain and horrible clothes for maximum schadenfreude. -- Peter York
I used to take formal notes in lines of blue, and underline the key words in red, and I realised I needed only the key words and the idea. Then to bring in connections, I drew arrows and put in images and codes. It was a picture outside my head of what was inside my head - 'mind map' is the language my brain spoke. -- Tony Buzan
The arrows are from her dowry. -- Juvenal
I trim my opponents to fit my arrows. -- Karl Kraus
Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart. -- Cassandra Clare
Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal. -- Paul Klee
The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make. -- William Shakespeare
Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain. -- Ellen Hopkins
There are many other arrows in our diplomatic quiver. -- Condoleezza Rice
It's like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows. -- Joe Kinnear
One arrow alone can be easily broken but many arrows are indestructible. -- Genghis Khan
We need more Democrats in the Senate -Like Custer needed more arrows. -- Ronald Reagan
Peace is achieved with rice and salt, not with katanas and arrows -- Uesugi Kenshin
You can always spot the pioneers by the arrows in their backs. -- William H. Calvin
Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves. -- Gautama Buddha
You may be obliged to wage war, but not to use poisoned arrows. -- Baltasar Gracian
Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. - Areo Hotah -- George R. R. Martin
As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. -- Gautama Buddha
My voice has a quiver/ A quiver is where you keep arrows until you shoot them. -- Jim Carroll
He who does not walk against the arrows cannot talk about the strength of his shield! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
If blue is dream what then innocence? What awaits the heart if Love bears no arrows? -- Federico Garcia Lorca
It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed. -- Henry Mackenzie
They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us... -- Hernando Cortes
The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Noises are like arrows pierced to a gentle soul when the mind is on a journey of thought -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society, children play with information -- Henry Jenkins
Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course. -- Steven Erikson
Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy. -- Terry Pratchett
Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords and arrows. -- Melina Marchetta
Children are arrows in a quiver, and they are to be trained as missionaries and shot at the Devil. -- Jim Elliot
I'm not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness. -- Virginia Woolf
As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse. -- Gautama Buddha
You'll never do anything creative, innovative or world changing if you fear criticism. Pioneers are easy targets for arrows! -- Rick Warren
Persian envoy "our arrows will black out the sun..." Dienekes of the Spartans.."Good, then we'll fight in the shade. -- Steven Pressfield
I'm fighting for this girl on the battlefield of love Got me look like baby Cupid Sending arrows from above -- Jay Sean
As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose. -- William Shakespeare
Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed. -- Miguel de Cervantes
As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds. -- Gautama Buddha
The good shine from afar Like the snowy Himalayas. The bad don't appear Even when near, Like arrows shot into the night. -- Gautama Buddha
Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were -- Horace
Our steel-tipped step-ladder arrows will let us rescue that injured stork that settled down on top of the obelisk and can't fly away! -- Robert Bernstein
Genius tries to conquer the world with art, with songs, with words; stupid tries to conquer it with sword, with guns, with arrows! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Fate has carried me'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand--Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breastTo pierce another. -- George Eliot
Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly, Of sad distrust and jealousy. -- Edmund Waller
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket. -- Sylvia Plath
Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way -- like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows. -- Dan Simmons
Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely? -- James Russell Lowell
There are many things that are thorns to our hopes until we have attained them, and envenomed arrows to our hearts when we have. -- Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau
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
Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow. -- Dante Alighieri
Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another. -- George Eliot
Our perceptions shape whether challenges are obstacles that block our path to success or important arrows that steer us in the direction we want to go. -- Julie Connor
How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. -- William Cowper
Cupid has offered his arrows for Jesus to try;He has offered his bow for the game.But Jesus went weeping away, and left him there wondering why. -- Harold Monro
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? -- William Shakespeare
I hate arrows. They try to tell me which direction to go. It's like "I ain't going that way, line with two thirds of a triangle on the end!" -- Mitch Hedberg
But sometimes I wanted to feel like a child, to know that he would stand in front of me while waves crashed towards us or arrows come at us. -- Belinda Jeffrey
If ever (as that ever may be near) you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, then shall you know the wounds invisible that love's keen, arrows make. -- William Shakespeare
I love 'Last Friday Night' by Katy Perry almost as much as 'Karma Police', and if you want to straddle that line, you have to take the slings and arrows. -- Chris Martin
Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen! Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood; Amaze the welkin with your broken staves! -- William Shakespeare
Pale in her fading bowers the Summer stands,Like a new Niobe with claspÃ¨d hands,Silent above the flowers, her children lost,Slain by the arrows of the early Frost. -- Richard Henry Stoddard
The arrows of malevolence ... however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me; though, whilst I am up as a mark, they will be continually aimed. -- George Washington
Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's worth it to suffer those slings and arrows. -- Paul McCartney
If her enemies were Brigan's friends and her friends were Brigan's enemies, then the two of them could walk through the world arm in arm and never be hit by arrows again. -- Kristin Cashore
Jackson is the most consummate sketcher I have ever known. These little panels, handy on the trail, could be handled as easily as an expert marksman uses a quiver full of arrows. -- Arthur Lismer
Creativity requires taking what Einstein called 'a leap into the unknown.' This can mean putting your beliefs, reputation and resources on the line as you suffer the slings and arrows of ridicule. -- Frank X. Barron
I'm pretty outdoorsy. My family used to live in the hills in the middle of nowhere pretty much. We literally used to have bow and arrows and air rifles and were throwing knives. -- Liam Hemsworth
Has the grim savage rushed again from the wilderness? Or does some fiend... twang her deadly arrows at our breast? No, none of these: it is the hand of Britain that inflicts the wound. -- Joseph Warren
Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it." -- Libba Bray
A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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