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Deeds are the pulse of Time, his beating life, And righteous or unrighteous, being done, Must throb in after-throbs till Time itself Be laid in stillness, and the universe Quiver and breathe upon no mirror more. -- George Eliot
There are many other arrows in our diplomatic quiver. -- Condoleezza Rice
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The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone. -- Samuel Johnson
Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. -- Donna Tartt
Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty. -- William John Locke
The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers. -- Stanley Kunitz
Children are arrows in a quiver, and they are to be trained as missionaries and shot at the Devil. -- Jim Elliot
Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in the stream. -- Matthew Arnold
Look, I'm smiling at you, I'm smiling in you, I'm smiling through you. How can I be dead if I breathe in every quiver of your hand? -- Andrei Sinyavsky
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
Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an important arrow in the rhetorical quiver. After all, it exists for a reason. -- Constance Hale
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
The difference between the first and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition -- it is a matter of a hair, a shade, an inward quiver of some kind -- yet what miles away in the point of preciousness! -- William James
While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert...that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair. -- Jules Verne
The name 'Seventh-day Adventist' carries the true features of our faith in front and will convict the inquiring mind. Like an arrow from the Lord's quiver, it will wound the transgressors of God's law, and will lead to repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. -- Ellen G. White
If liberals were prevented from ever again calling Republicans dumb, they would be robbed of half their arguments. To be sure, they would still have racist, fascist, homophobe, ugly, and a few other highly nuanced arguments in the quiver. But the loss of dumb would nearly cripple them. -- Ann Coulter
Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light. -- Elizabeth Kostova
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
Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
If you don't like it you can kiss my quiver -- Rick Riordan
My lips still quiver when I think about her smile. -- Tanzy Sayadi
Trees quiver in the wind,sailing on a sea of mistout of earshot. -- Dag Hammarskjold
As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music. -- Khalil Gibran
As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music. -- Khalil Gibran
Persons visited by the angel quiver with a thrill unknown to the rest of mankind -- Gaston Leroux
How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt. -- Robert Blair
My voice has a quiver/ A quiver is where you keep arrows until you shoot them. -- Jim Carroll
The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear. -- Edward Young
The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice. -- Lord Byron
Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver - words like "enthralling" and "luminous." -- William Zinsser
You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver. -- Foster Friess
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Do you recall that night in June Upon the Danube River; We listened to the landler-tune, We watched the moonbeams quiver. -- Charles Hamilton Aide
Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver. -- Diane Ackerman
Let there be spaces in your togetherness...just as strings of a lute dance alone though they quiver with the same music. -- Khalil Gibran
I am the hit-maker, the record-breaker. I got style and grace, a pretty face. I'll make your back crack, your liver quiver. -- Dusty Rhodes
When you're gripped by anxiety, worry, insomnia, or panic, make yourself shiver, quiver, tremble, and shudder. It seems silly, but it really works. -- Jude Bijou
We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. -- John Muir
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
I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
A disease-free body, quiver-free breath, stress-free mind, inhibition-free intellect, obsession-free memory, ego that includes all, and soul which is free from sorrow is the birthright of every human being. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone.Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. -- Kahlil Gibran
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told the truant by his marks,- Golden curls, and quiver, and bow. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Boy, you better check that tone. (Wulf) Yeah, yeah, ya scare me. I'm even wetting my pants while in your terrifying, gut-wrenching presence. See me shiver and quiver? Ooo, ahhh, ooo. (Chris) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
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
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

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