Curtseys Or Bows Quotes

There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel. ~ Christian Nestell Bovee

Man is at his tallest when he bows. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Jew bows before no man only God ~ Menachem Begin

The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Everything bows to success, even grammar. ~ Victor Hugo

When everything exists within your big mind, all dualistic relationships drop away. There is no distinction between heaven and earth, man and woman, teacher and disciple. Sometimes a man bows to a woman; sometimes a woman bows to a man. Sometimes the disciple bows to the master; sometimes the master bows to the disciple ... In your big mind, everything has the same value. ~ Shunryu Suzuki

The heathen in his blindness
Bows down to wood and stone. ~ Reginald Heber

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind. ~ George Eliot

The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no salaam; And dear the beaver is to him As if it never made a dam. ~ Thomas Hood

I don't like pink and I am not into girlie stuff, bows and frills, sugary looking things. ~ Katie McGrath

Living isn't always red bows and birthday balloons. ~ Carew Papritz

The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney

I'm secure enough in myself to wear panties with bows on them. Besides, they are comfy and soft."
"I bet." He almost purred.
I gulped. ~ Ilona Andrews

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. ~ Bill Moyers

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration. ~ Hosea Ballou

The wisdom of the world, while in many cases very valuable, is most valuable when it humbly bows to the wisdom of God. ~ Neil L. Andersen

I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be? ~ Orlando Bloom

Sometimes, Just when we need them, life wraps metaphors up in little bows for us. When you think all is lost, the things you need the most return unexpectedly. ~ Susannah Cahalan

Unlike a bow and arrow, a camera by its nature ensures that some kind of target will always be hit, if not necessarily the intended target nor in the intended way. ~ Luc Sante

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows. ~ Charles Buxton

Cupid in these latter times has probably laid aside his bow and arrow, and uses fire-arms
a pistol
perhaps a revolver. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

You can learn more about hunting deer with a bow and arrow in a week than a gun hunter will learn in his entire life ~ Fred Bear

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. ~ Sun Tzu

When your mind shines, the world bows before it.
When your heart shines, stars bow before it.
When your soul shines, the universe bows before it. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee. ~ William Shakespeare

Protect your hands! Some fans demonstrate their enthusiam with bone-crushing hand shakes. My former teacher Julian Bream often bows Japanese style with his hands behind his back. Smart man ! ... ~ Liona Boyd

How to paint the landscape: First you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to you, then, and only then, can you paint the landscape. ~ John Marin

With good reason, love's messengers, Eros and Kama, are armed with bows and long-distance arrows. No being, god or mortal, can choose love. Love comes despite ourselves; and then, if we have not already done so, we have the task of becoming our selves so we may welcome love. ~ Diane Wolkstein

Arsinoe does not move. She stares them down to the last and lets the mask do its job. Until Billy
comes ashore.
Her heart warms. He does not seem weak or injured.
Billy stands below the cliffs and looks up at her. He bows, deep and slow, and the crowd murmurs.
Arsinoe holds her breath.
He bows only to her. ~ Kendra Blake

The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life. ~ Raymond Chandler

Judas is neither a master of evil nor the figure of a demoniacal power of darkness but rather a sycophant who bows before the anonymous power of changing moods and current fashions. But it is precisely this anonymous power that crucified Jesus, for it was anonymous voices that cried 'away with him! Crucify him!' ~ Pope Benedict XVI

She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to the hair ribbons tied in perky bows over her ears. ~ Maud Hart Lovelace

As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs. And he clothes them with thunders and beauty, He clothes them with music and fire, Seeing not, as he bows by their altars, That he worships his own desire. ~ Don Marquis

Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months. ~ Eric Clapton

What's so funny?" "Your panties have a bow," he said. I looked down. I was wearing a short tank top -not mine- and my blue panties with a narrow white strip of lace at the top and a tiny white bow. Would it have killed me to check what I was wearing before I pulled the blanket down? "What's wrong with bows?" "Nothing." He was grinning now. "I expected barbed wire. Or one of those steel chains." Wiseass. "I'm secure enough in myself to wear panties with bows on them. Besides, they are comfy and soft." "I bet. ~ Ilona Andrews

I think I know more about you at age seven than you do," Henri teased.
"Do you, now?" she asked, happy he couldn't see her blushing since she sat in front of him on their steed.
"Yes," he said confidently. "I know you always preferred the colors blue and yellow to any other. You were excellent at hide-and-seek. You hated cold porridge, and my personal favorite- you named every horse in the royal stables and liked to put bows on them when allowed."
She colored some more and burst out laughing. This she did not remember! "I did not! Did I?"
Henri laughed, too. "Apparently you did, driving the royal seamstress crazy with your requests for ribbons and bows for the royal steeds. ~ Jen Calonita

I really want to see everything. If it's around me and it's part of my show, I need to be a part of all of it. From the creation of the music, to the surface of the floor, to everyone's hairstyle, to the details with the buttons and the bows and the snaps and the zippers. All of those things! ~ Madonna Ciccone

I will not bow to any sponsor. ~ Wayne Campbell

Longbows, crossbows, hair bows, rainbows - that's not the point. ~ Steve Hockensmith

I always bow to my enemies before I destroy them! ~ Gabrielle

I have heard that the ancients used bows and arrows to their advantage. ~ Sun Tzu

It's no sure rule to fish with a cros-bow. ~ George Herbert

Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot: unbrace them when the shooting is over. Were they kept always strung they would break and fail the archer in time of need. So it is with men. If they give themselves constantly to serious work, and never indulge awhile in pastime or sport, they lose their senses and become mad. ~ Herodotus

You judge the gods by who bows down at their altars? Ai Ling asked. ~ Cindy Pon

Things have their time, even eminence bows to timeliness. ~ Baltasar Gracian

The bow too tensely strung is easily broken. ~ Publilius Syrus

Getting to play with Thor's hammer while he stroked my bow ~ Jeremy Renner

A queen bows to no one, especially to her king. ~ Tillie Cole

Destroy our leisure and you break love's bow. ~ Ovid

Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken ~ Ovid

I always made an awkward bow. ~ John Keats

The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to the unknowable. The man who bows in that final direction is either a saint or a fool. I have no use for either. ~ Roger Zelazny

Orgasms make such pretty bows to presents. ~ Nikita King

Homage to thee, 0 Sekhmet-Bast-Ra, thou mistress of the gods, thou bearer of wings, lady of the Anes bandlet, queen of the crowns of the South and of the North, only One, sovereign of her father, superior to whom the gods cannot be, thou mighty one of enchantments in the Boat of Millions of Years, thou who art pre-eminent, who risest in the seat of silence ... mistress and lady of the tomb, mother in the horizon of heaven, gracious one, beloved, destroyer of rebellion, offerings are in thy grasp, and thou art standing in the bows of the boat of thy divine father to overthrow the
Fiend. Thou hast placed Maat in the bows of his boat. ~ Jocelyn Almond

Kneel to nobody; bow to everyone. ~ Robin Skelton

As the arrow that leaves the bow cannot be recaptured, what we say, senselessly, about others causes us great harm. ~ Sylvia Fraser

Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect. ~ Ovid

As long as you do not pick up your spears, I will not draw my bows ~ Abheek Kakkar

It's like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows. ~ Joe Kinnear

His return gives England another key to its bow. ~ Stuart Pearce

Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time. ~ Laozi

Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift. ~ Regina Brett

And every dew-drop paints a bow. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes. ~ Rick Riordan

History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied. ~ Orson Scott Card

If you have to get on your knees and bow when a white person goes past do it willingly. ~ Mamie Till

The help (in Japan) is very polite. They bow so much, you don't know which end to talk to. ~ Bob Hope

Two long lines of Shifters stretched over the field, standing unmoved. They expertly held composite bows at ready, various in origin and style. ~ A.O. Peart

Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

You can't just tip your hat to Jesus; you must bow your knee. ~ Adrian Rogers

Greatness has entered the ring! Thank you very much you may bow at will! ~ Randy Orton

The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson

There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power. ~ Terry Eagleton

[Steven Spielberg's films] are comforting, they always give you answers and I don't think they're very clever answers ... The success of most Hollywood films these days is down to fact that they're comforting. They tie things up in nice little bows and give you answers, even if the answers are stupid, you go home and you don't have to think about it ... The great filmmakers make you go home and think about it. ~ Terry Gilliam

I go, I go, look how I go, swifter than an arrow from a bow ~ William Shakespeare

As rice grows riper, the lower it bows its head. Never lose your humility while you grow. ~ Jimvirle/Jinvirle

A gentleman can never have too many bow ties. ~ Justin Timberlake

...he does not stir. She bows her head, looks at him, hugs him to her belly and weeps. No-one could imagine the depths of her misery. ~ Pierre Lemaitre

Feather Presents are those things life brings that can't be held in the hand, or tied with bows, but are presents none-the-less ~ Jean Williams

I've got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I'd give this one a twang. ~ John Le Carre

Aretmis gripped her bow. "Let us pray I am wrong."
Can goddesses pray? ~ Rick Riordan

Whenever you are afraid of something you are worshipping it. Whatever you fear, you bow down to and give it power. ~ Emmet Fox

Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight ... ~ Elizabeth I

You have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic. ~ Lloyd Alexander

Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do. ~ Claes Oldenburg

I have an unsatisfied desire to shoot well with a bow. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

A nod, a bow, and a tip of the lid to the person who coulda and shoulda and did. ~ Robert Breault

And don't ye be adding any more bows to that. God help ye, it looked like a blind gypsy dropped off a tribute to Herne in your living room. ~ Rhys Ford

Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. ~ Samuel Ullman

The universe bows to Lord Shiva, I bow to Lord Shiva. ~ Amish Tripathi

If you understand real practice, then archery or other activities can be zen. If you don't understand how to practice archery in its true sense, then even though you practice very hard, what you acquire is just technique. It won't help you through and through. Perhaps you can hit the mark without trying, but without a bow and arrow you cannot do anything. If you understand the point of practice, then even without a bow and arrow the archery will help you. How you get that kind of power or ability is only through right practice. ~ Shunryu Suzuki

My head bows before the thing you mention.
But my heart doesn't speak that language.

- The Epic of Sheik Bedreddin, Verse 9. ~ Nâzım Hikmet Ran

Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless. ~ Ovid

Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion. ~ Sigmund Freud

You're like a gift," he said, his voice rough. "All wrapped up for someone else. A man can't look at you, but think of loosing those bows, one by one. ~ Tessa Dare

He sighs and bows his head, burying his face in his hands. I touch his hair. His ears. Bear may be my rock, but Dom is the force that moves me. ~ T.J. Klune

If everyone bows in front of your wisdom, your greatest wisdom will be to tell them not to bow! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you bow deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you. ~ Morihei Ueshiba

My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color. ~ Cameron Russell