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

When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.

- Carly Fiorina

The people who actually do things always suffer the slings and arrows of those who don't.

- Craig Bruce

Politics is only worthwhile if you are doing what you believe, regardless of the slings and arrows.

- David Blunkett

Now when the two armies met, many and fierce were the combats waged between them, and blows were given and received, and swords flashed and showers of arrows descended on all sides.

- Ferdowsi

I at once commenced the ascent through a shower of arrows.

- George Crook

All I can do is put on my armor and brace for the arrows.

- Jamie Kennedy

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

- Khalil Gibran

Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.

- Kevin Crossley-Holland

Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.

- Paul Rand

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

- Robert Blair

One of the things Goldman teaches you is, don't be the first guy through the door because you're going to get all the arrows.

- Stephen Bannon