Extending Quotes

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Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives. — John Scalzi
He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of his mouth as… — Leslie Marmon Silko
Chauncey seethed at the outrageous insult. "And your father?" he demanded, extending the sword. He didn't yet know all his vassals, but he was learning.… — Becca Fitzpatrick
Well," Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me. "It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures." I shook… — John Green
How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and… — Rebecca Solnit
In that six months, so much happened that death seemed, primarily, inconvenient. The trial period was extended. I seem to keep extending it. There are… — Marya Hornbacher
Extending his senses, Lorkin tried again to hear his motherâ€™s surface thoughts. What he picked up seemed too out of character, however. He must be… — Trudi Canavan
I swam across the rocks and compared myself favorably with the sars. To swim fishlike, horizontally, was the logical method in a medium eight hundred… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past. — Alan Lightman
What enriches language is its being handled and exploited by beautiful minds-not so much by making innovations as by expanding it through more vigorous and… — Michel de Montaigne
The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is… — Aubrey de Grey
There is no difference between saving lives and extending lives, because in both cases we are giving people the chance of more life. — Aubrey de Grey
Extending federal unemployment insurance is vital for millions of Americans laid off through no fault of their own, and it serves as an important economic… — Sander Levin
Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps. — Charles B. Rangel
By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories, which… — Alice Morse Earle
Americans are falling out of the middle class, not into it. And they deserve relief. I absolute support extending the Bush tax cuts for those… — Paul Tonko
The process of radiation may be, and is, continuous - at any rate within limits extending to far smaller quantities than the quantum. — Charles Glover Barkla
Reducing caloric intake is the only proven method of extending life. If caloric intake is reduced to 20 percent below maintenance, you can extend your… — S. Jay Olshansky
Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand. — Aristotle
The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries ahead of us… — Madison Smartt Bell

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