arrow quotes

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand, but it shall not come nigh thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 91:3^7.

Let us draw an arrow arbitrarily. If as we follow the arrow we find more and more of the random element in the world, then the arrow is pointing towards the future; if therandomelement decreasesthearrow pointstowards the past† I shall usethe phrase'time's arrow'to express this one-way property of time which has no analogue in space.

- SirArthur Stanley Eddington
  The Nature of the Physical World, ch.4. Martin  Amis used the phrase'Time's  Arrow' for the title of his1991novel.

I shot an arrow in the air. She fell to earth in Berkeley Square.

- Robert Hamer
  Kind Hearts and Coronets (with  John Dighton).

Asthe eaglewas killed by thearrow wingedwith its own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

- Helen Adams Keller
  In the American Magazine, Dec.

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  'The  Arrow and the Song'.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Elegaic Verse, stanza 9.

What worlds delight, or joy of living speech Can heart, so plunged in sea of sorrows deep, And heape'  d with so huge misfortunes, reach? The careful cold beginneth for to creep, And in my heart his iron arrow steep, Soon as I think upon my bitter bale.

- Edmund Spenser
  The Faerie Queen, bk.1, canto 7, stanza 39.