Quotes with arrows

  • Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.

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  • Buddha As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Buddha As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Anais Nin Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Abraham Cowley Fond archer, Hope! who tak'st thy aim so far,
    That still or short, or wide thine arrows are!
    Against Hope.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Robert Blair How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.
    Robert Blair
    Scottish poet (1699 - 1746)
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  • Bill Moyers Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Sir William Temple Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Burton Richter The sun doesn't shine at night, and wind power is highly variable. To meet our emissions goals, we're going to have to grasp every arrow in the quiver, and nuclear is one of those arrows.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • William Shakespeare To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare To be, or not to be; that is the question;
    Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
    The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
    Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
    And by opposing, end them.
    Hamlet
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Carly Fiorina When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor Yonder fly his scattered golden arrows, And smite the hills with day.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Kahlil Gibran You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Akhenaton As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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