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Quotes About Bow

The nuclear threat. So quaint." "It's like, if only. Right?" "The climate deal makes nukes look kind of sweet. Like being scared of cannons." "Slingshots." "A Hyksos recurve bow." "Canaanite sickle-swords.
~ Lydia Millet
Evidently an A level in English is a sacred trust, like something out of The Lord of the Rings. You must go forth with your A level and protect the English language with your bow of elfin gold.
~ Lynne Truss
A starving pariah dog with the appearance of having lately been skinned had squeezed itself in after the last man; it looked up at the Consul with beady, gentle eyes. Then, thrusting down its poor wrecked dinghy of a chest, from which raw withered breasts drooped, it began to bow and scrape before him.
~ Malcolm Lowry
No one beats Steven Seagal, though. He's not here with any group. I saw him late one night dressed in a cop uniform, out on patrol with some deputies from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Department. He's been going out with their SWAT team. We talk a bit, and when he leaves he puts his palms together in front of his face and bows briefly. Then he hops in a cop car and speeds off.
~ Anderson Cooper
He liked the bow, where it was quiet. If he looked over the edge of the deck, he could just see the bulbous front of the ship where it met the water. For centuries, the bows of ships had been like knives. But not any longer. Wilson pondered the change until he understood. A bulbous prow would raise the bow. This would make the ship more efficient by reducing the impact of the bow-wave. He wondered about the man whose insight it was, and if he'd gotten credit for it.
~ John Case
Life is like Avant Garde. It will make you uncomfortable, and leave the room. But always remember to come back and watch the artist bow.
~ Valerie Cruz
he asked who, and what manner of men, the Athenians were. And when he had been told, he called for his bow; and, having taken it, and placed an arrow on the string, he let the arrow fly towards heaven; and as he shot it into the air, he said, 'O Supreme God! grant me that I may avenge myself on the Athenians.' And when he had said this, he appointed one of his servants to say to him every day as he sat at meat, 'Sire, remember the Athenians.
~ Edward Shepherd Creasy
Bravery is to remain standing upright on his own toe before the wife and Slavery is to keep going down on own knees to bow before her in his life.
~ Anuj Somany
One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I bow down to the altar of genre, because it allowed me to get 'The Witch' financed.
~ Robert Eggers
I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
~ Tupac Shakur
Holy God, we praise thy Name Lord of All, we bow before thee!
~ Anne Rice
Silence was his short bow and quiver of arrows.
~ Sherman Alexie
Relax? he repeated incredulously. You're going to fight an armored knight with nothing more than a bow and you tell me to relax? I'll have one or two arrows as well, you know, Halt told him mildly, and Horace shook his head in disbelief.
~ John Flanagan
I can scarcely bid you good bye even in a letter. I always made an awkward bow. God bless you!
~ John Keats
The devils bowed to one another, one cruel-eyed and smoking, rose petals sizzling under his footsteps, the other white and fair and wearing a crown of dancing shadows on his brow.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The covenant of grace could no more have been made by man, than he can form a bow in the clouds.
~ Arthur W. Pink
Bootlickers are ready to stand in a row without shame to bow before him on his arrival and share the stage or podium to extract some undue business favour from him.
~ Awakening Beaconing
High on a stag the Goddess held her seat, And there were little hounds about her feet; Below her feet there was a sickle moon, Waxing it seemed, but would be waning soon. Her statue bore a mantle of bright green, Her hand a bow with arrows cased and keen; Her eyes were lowered, gazing as she rode Down to where Pluto has his dark abode.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
I don't ever want to tie a song in a little bow. Life doesn't work that way, and war doesn't ever work that way.
~ Mary Gauthier
Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities.
~ William Shakespeare
Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down on you.
~ Robert W. Service
I cannot at the moment recall any possible blunder which you have omitted. From His Last Bow
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Theo is like the huntress Diana," Cecil said, rocking a little on his heels. He was thoroughly enjoying the burst of popularity his cousin-by-marriage was experiencing. "Beautiful and yet slightly deadly, ready to to whip out a bow and arrow, or turn a man into a squealing swine. Sensual, and yet with just a snowy touch of the virginal about her.
~ Eloisa James