Arrows Quotes

One arrow alone can be easily broken but many arrows are indestructible.

War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.

If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it's fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there's an arrow in your heart.

Children are arrows in a quiver, and they are to be trained as missionaries and shot at the Devil.

Wait not while your foe fits arrow to bowstring when you can send your own arrow into him.

Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

The arrows are from her dowry.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

The good shine from afar Like the snowy Himalayas. The bad don't appear Even when near, Like arrows shot into the night.

Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go.

The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts for why we cannot turn an omelet into an egg, why ice cubes never spontaneously unmelt in a glass of water, and why we remember the past but not the future. And the origin of the asymmetry we experience can be traced all the way back to the orderliness of the universe near the big bang. Every time you break an egg, you are doing observational cosmology.

The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind

The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail.

You got rid of them. Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether ‘tis better 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… But you don’t do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It’s too easy.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.

The recollection of an injury is . . . a rusty arrow and poison for the soul.

Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

Follow your arrow / Wherever it points.

The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make.

In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is likely to hurt.

A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.

I don't think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of the bow and arrow. It's the nuclear age, and war can annihilate us all. The only way to achieve solutions seems to be for the different social systems to coexist.