#arrows

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#arrogance #cleanses #concern #corrupts #diversity

They, astounded at the flash of the armor, and the swiftness of the charge, and attacked by showers of arrows and missiles, half naked as they were, never stopped to resist but gave way. ↗

— Arrian

#arrows #astounded #attacked #charge #flash

I shoot an arrow into the air, where it lands I do not care: I get my arrows wholesale! ↗

— Curly Howard

#arrow #arrows #care #get #i

These natives are a very good people; for when they saw that I would not remain, they supposed that I was afraid of their bows; and, taking their arrows, the broke them in pieces and threw them into the fire. ↗

— Henry Hudson

#arrows #bows #broke #fire #good

Travel, of course, narrows the mind. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#mind #narrows #travel

These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#armed #arrows #bows #common #dressed

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone. ↗

— Martha Beck

#arrows #behalf #comes #death #else

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#bows #children #forth #living #sent

How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt. ↗

— Robert Blair

#blunt #comparison #guilt #how #those

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#exactness #extremes #mind #moderation #narrows