Famous Quotes & Sayings

George R. R. Martin

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

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.

William Blake

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!

Michelle Paver

It's the little details I love. How to fletch your arrows with owl feathers, because owls fly silently, so maybe your arrows will, too. How to carry fire in a piece of smouldering fungus wrapped in birchbark. These are the things which help a world come alive.

Michael Shermer

We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I shot an arrow into the air,It fell to earth, I knew not where (The Arrow and the Song)

We had a bow and arrow at 6 and a BB gun at 7.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived: the way the arrow, suddenly all vector, survives the string to be more than itself. For abiding is nowhere.

Rainer Maria Rilke

As the arrow endures the string, and in the gathering momentum becomes more than itself. Because to stay is to be nowhere.

Miguel de Cervantes

Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

Paul Celan

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

I wanted the new Green Arrow to somehow sense his long, brutal past. It's like someone who has past lives they can't remember but feels occasional flashes of.

It's been overwhelming with everyone scrambling for last minute stuff, ... A lot of them are coming in with a broken bow string. We don't like the last-minute stuff. It's stressful, but for a lot of these guys this is the only time they can do something. They need arrows re-fletched, broken strings fixed.

Tom Burnett

It looks like they're trying to right the ship. They deserved to suffer all those slings and arrows of their own outrageous fortune.

Condoleezza Rice

There are many other arrows in our diplomatic quiver.

In a short story, you can use someone - we're only going to be with that person for maybe 10 pages, and they can have sort of a one note personality. And in a novel, you need to have arrows pointing more than one direction for that person.

Into thy womb shall enter a male germ, as an arrow into a quiver! May a man be born there, a son ten months old!

I know my predecessors have written a Green Arrow who has a lot of thoughts about social justice, but that was a more evolved, older, wiser Green Arrow.

I have to give them credit. They are pioneers but are they leaders? And one might want to ask the question that isn't it true that pioneers die with arrows in their backs?

George Crook

When I jerked it out the head remained in my leg, where it remains still. There were a couple of inches of blood on the shaft of the arrow when I pulled it out.

The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.

The things that churned inside Daredevil were deeply religious, somewhat guilt-driven traces of the messianic, with his powers being a compensation for and driven by the vulnerability of being blind. Green Arrow is not driven by dark forces.

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.

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.

Sun Tzu

When you shoot a bow and arrow, you aim at the clouds, not because you expect to hit them, but so that you may reach the distant target on the ground.

Steven Weinberg

If history is any guide at all, it seems to me to suggest that there is a final theory. In this century we have seen a convergence of the arrows of explanation, like the convergence of meridians toward the North Pole.

All the arrows are pointed at me, ... I never thought the political opponent would try to discredit me like this with such malicious allegations.

Hermann Hesse

Om is the bow, the arrow is soul,

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Everything is already there in...." How does it come about that [an] arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? - "No, not the dead line on paper; only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that." - That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it.

Genghis Khan

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