Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The narrative fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or, equivalently, forcing a logical link, an arrow of relationship, upon them. Explanations bind facts together. They make them all the more easily remembered; they help them make more sense. Where this propensity can go wrong is when it increases our impression of understanding.

Like an arrow to its mark flies the word good man's word.

When you choose the sword over a gun, just like Green Arrow chooses an arrow over a gun and Catwoman chooses a whip over a gun, you have to be highly skilled and highly trained. I can grab Green Arrow's bow, but I'm not strong enough to shoot it. I can grab Catwoman's whip, but have you ever tried to whip a whip? It's not easy.

Nobody had any idea of what it really cost to manage the habitat . . . to the standard that ultimately became required, ... They were pioneers and they have arrows in them.

If the arrow is pointing up and the light is green, performance is good. If the light is yellow and the arrow points down, it's time to pay closer attention.

Troy Vincent

If we get to that uncapped year, ... guess where those franchise values are going to go? The arrow will be pointing straight down. You need a salary cap to keep the franchise values up.

If we distributed money to the military this way, our troops in Iraq would have bows and arrows to fight with,

I got in this business because of Steve Martin playing a banjo with an arrow through his head. You have to be really smart to play a dumb guy.

Jeff Lemire

Oliver Queen/Green Arrow is a character whose core is about legacy and responsibility. And that all comes from his father and the responsibilities of living up to his legacy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

George Washington

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 R. R. Martin

Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. - Areo Hotah

Jim Carroll

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

Jeremy Taylor

An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.

May their weapons fall from their (hands), may they be unable to lay the arrow on (the bow)! And then (our) arrows shall smite them, badly frightened, in their vital members!

Just as an arrow once released from the bow can not return,in the same manner painful and harsh words can not be taken back.

William Stafford

My name is William Tell: when little oppressions touch me arrows hidden in my cloak whisper, "Ready, ready.

Carrie Vaughn

Just so you know, I'm straight. Totally straight. As an arrow." Her voice held a smile. "So am I

Henry David Thoreau

If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow.

Jeremy Brett

Trying to be Sherlock Holmes is like trying to catch an arrow in mid-flight.

Graham Joyce

That's emails for ya: sometimes they're like an arrow that hits so deep in the target, you can't pull it out.

Horace

Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were

Horace

The arrow will not always find the mark intended.

Jeremy Renner

So there's that, and then there's always things you can do with the tips. Except for this, what they call the arrow tips, they'll all be non-lethal cause again we're not trying kill anybody, just sort of take control of the situation. They'll probably throw in a lot of gimmicks with the tips and trick arrows, and things like that. And ya the new, cool...

Friedrich Nietzsche

THE SLOW ARROW OF BEAUTY. The noblest kind of beauty is that which does not transport us suddenly, which does not make stormy and intoxicating impressions such a kind easily arouses disgust but that which slowly filters into our minds.

Roy Blunt

I don't see any wavering of the support for the leader. I think a lot of members think he's taking arrows for all of us.

Pablo Neruda

I don't love you as if you were a rose of salt, topazor arrow of carnations that propagate fire:I love you as one loves certain dark things,secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I do not love the bright sword for it's sharpness, nor the arrow for it's swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend

Neil Young

I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.

Rachel McAdams

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.

Cassandra Clare

If there was an arrow speeding toward Will, I would be bound by oath to step in front of it.' 'Handy, that,' said Will.

Paul Celan

Each arrow you shoot off carries its own target into the decidedly secret tangle

J. C. Watts

He couldn't do that since she is straight as an arrow and one of the most ethical and trustworthy individuals I know.