Stretch Quotes
606 quotes by 539 authors
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God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and…
— Max Lerner
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Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.
— Agnes Repplier
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By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
— Thomas More
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The country is now universally recognised as a nation on the move and takes its place amongst the successful economies in the region. The future…
— Ratan Tata
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Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls…
— Philip Guston
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The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
— H. L. Mencken
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The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to…
— Jim Rohn
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Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than a…
— James Jeans
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Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by…
— Martin Gardner
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O, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
— William Shakespeare
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The most spectacular UFO incident in Indonesia occurred when during the height of President Sukarno's confrontation against Malaysia, UFOs penetrated a well-defended area in Java…
— Cael Sanderson
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At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also very…
— Ellen Gallagher
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Then Christ will say to us, 'Come you also! Come you drunkards! Come you weaklings! Come you depraved!' And he will say to us, 'Vile…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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We make boundaries so that we can feel separate and move coherently through the world: it's part of our necessary natural growth to do that.…
— Julie Henderson
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Do not lose heart, even if you should discover that you lack qualities necessary for the work to which you are called. He who called…
— Angela Merici
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I have a conviction that it's only when you are put at full stretch that you can realise your full potential.
— Edward Dunlop
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Immense deposits of kimmeridge clay, containing the oil-bearing bands or seams, stretch across England from Dorsetshire to Lincolnshire. [An early political recognition of the native…
— Winston Churchill
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He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.
— Mark Twain
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Last night I had rinsed out my sari strip and briefs in the sea. I walked down naked to where they hung in the branches…
— Lucy Irvine
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I could run 200 yards at a stretch, I could duck between players, I felt free to make plays that suited me best. It wasn't…
— Jim Brown
Who Wrote These Stretch Quotes
539 authors contributed a total of 606 Stretch Quotes, led by these top contributors: