Famous Quotes & Sayings

Satellite companies are working on smaller bases, and their (market) shares have been growing since 1995 when they started. Their growth rate is slowing, however. Part of that is due to the fact that cable has got more arrows in their quiver now by being able to offer more services to a customer.

A lot of barns in those days had arrows painted on their roofs and other messages to let the pilots known they were still on course. And those guys used to joke that the early airplanes were made of sticks and wires.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.