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Quotes About Arrow

quiet streets of his neighborhood, his dog, Zeke, trotting right beside him. He was studying an arrow-
~ Lauren Tarshis
He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.
~ Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
~ Groucho Marx
This was not a beauty that warmed one. It cut, like a weapon. There was no nuance of gentleness in her, no shading of care, but fair she was, as is the flight of an arrow before it kills.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
And so saw, by a trick, an angle, a flaring of torchlight far down the dark river, how the arrow—white-feathered, she would remember, white as innocence, as winter in midsummer, as death—fell from the summit of its long, high arc to take the coran in the shoulder, driving him, slack and helpless, from the rope into the river amid laughter turned to screaming in the night.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
Surely--But I am very off from that. From surely. From indeed. From the decent arrow that was my clean naivete and my faith. This morning, men deliver wounds and death. They will deliver death and wounds tomorrow. And I doubt all. You. Or a violet.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
The arrow of time doesn't move forward forever. There's a phase in the history of the universe where you go from low entropy to high entropy. But then, once you reach the locally maximum entropy you can get to, there's no more arrow of time.
~ Sean M. Carroll
Archers ever Have two strings to bow; and shall great Cupid (Archer of archers both in men and women), Be worse provided than a common archer?
~ George Chapman
What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security, ' and, 'What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
~ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Iron sleet of arrowy showerHurtles in the darken'd air.
~ Thomas Gray
It was at that moment that I'd first begun to experience one of life's deepest lessons: you are the most alive when you feel the most vulnerable, not when the arrow is still in the quiver but when it has been released by the string and is flying toward you.
~ Thomas H. Cook
shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where; for so swiftly it flew, the sight could not follow in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, it fell to earth I knew not where; for who has sight so keen and strong, that it can follow the flight of a song? Long, long afterward, in an oak, I found the arrow still unbroke, and the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.
~ Charles Martin
My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I know this? I have studied it…I have followed its roots, so to speak, to the first infallible cause of all created things. —GEORG CANTOR
~ Charles Seife
There is no logical necessity for the existence of a unique direction of total time; whether there is only one time direction, or whether time directions alternate, depends on the shape of the entropy curve plotted by the universe.
~ Hans Reichenbach
I was a straight arrow, a control freak. I didn't do drugs or drink, and this was the '70s. I didn't like the loss of control. Which isn't exactly right, because I didn't know what happened when you did drugs.
~ George Saunders
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.
~ Jeff Lemire
Pero solo tu voz escucho y sube tu voz con vuelo y precisión de flecha, baja tu voz con gravedad de lluvia, tu voz esparce altísimas espadas, vuelve tu voz cargada de violetas y luego me acompaña por el cielo.
~ Pablo Neruda
The heart knows no pain sharper than love's arrow.
~ Padma Lakshmi
Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the young - and spares me. The Pestilence that wastes, the Arrow that strikes, the Sea that drowns, the Grave the closes over Love and Hope, are steps of my journey, and take me nearer and nearer to the End.
~ Wilkie Collins
The appearance of a disease is swift as an arrow; its disappearance slow, like a thread.
~ Chinese proverb
Tilo my daughter," said the Old One, and by her face I knew she felt my struggle in her own heart, "most gifted most troublesome most loved, Tilo traveling to America eager as an arrow, I have here something for you." And from the folds of her clothing she removed it and placed it on my tongue, a slice of gingerroot, wild island ada to give my heart steadfastness, to keep me strong in my vows.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I shot an arrow into the air,It fell to earth, I knew not where.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A horizontal arrow indicates that the attribute varies between less and more complex societies of that type.
~ Jared Diamond
Time is a boomerang, not an arrow.
~ Jeanette Winterson