There's always hand-to-hand combat. All you need is to come up with a knife, and you'll at least stand a chance. If I get jumped, I'm dead!" I can hear my voice rising in anger. "But you won't! You'll be living up in some tree eating raw squirrels and picking off people with arrows.
That. . . is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.
The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind
Arrows are cheap; you're expensive.
I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.
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.
Time's arrow, we are told, is a one-way thing. . . Memory's arrow, like the needle of a compass too close to a lodestone, spins in all directions.
If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow.
She wasn't that tough on me, but I think she was often a little frightened - being a single parent. So it begets this quality of desired absoluteness that doesn't really exist. My sister could crack her up. She'd be getting into trouble and put the Steve Martin arrow through her head and mom would start to laugh. I didn't have the same sort of wiliness.
The arrows are from her dowry.
As the arrow endures the string, and in the gathering momentum becomes more than itself. Because to stay is to be nowhere.
How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.
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.
There's no substitute for the power of a personal story. The true stories of God redeeming a broken life shoot like arrows straight to our hearts and remind us that God wants to do the same life changing work in our lives. I love how one story can impact another story, causing a ripple effect of change if we let it.
The system wants you to be either a bow or an arrow; refuse both, because there is a third choice: To be an archer!
It's like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows.
Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.
Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords and arrows.
The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology. But for human history, set in the arrow of time, there appears to be one intolerable stumbling-block. This is the catastrophic failure in human values and decency.
There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn. . . No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely