Stretch Quotes

606 quotes by 530 authors

God, as a loving Father, will stretch our souls at times. The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is… — Neal A. Maxwell
This is where the story starts, in this threadbare room. The walls are exploding. The windows have turned into telescopes. Moon and stars are magnified… — Jeanette Winterson
There's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious. — Stephen Colbert
She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the… — Ann Brashares
I know that there will be other women, but they couldn't compare. Maybe I'll change, maybe love will change, but I think we were a… — Jodi Picoult
Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space in which to… — Italo Calvino
I felt my face stretch in a victorious smile. The potion had worked. I was inside. I had to suppress an urge to break into… — Jim Butcher
The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete petition. The right… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives… — Susan Cain
It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them... At least he who… — R A Salvatore
I have so much love inside me, Jason. So much. And I have never been allowed to shower it on anyone--no one wanted it. Let… — Nalini Singh
You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be… — Cheryl Strayed
I stare at her chest. As she breathes, the rounded peaks move up and down like the swell of waves, somehow reminding me of rain… — Haruki Murakami
A man can spend several hours sitting cross-legged in the same position if he knows that noting prevents him from changing it; but if he… — Leo Tolstoy
I do love the beginning of the summer hols,' said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.' 'They go so… — Enid Blyton
When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold. My fingers stretch out, seeking Prim`s warmth but finding only the rough canvas… — Suzanne Collins
And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath… — Virginia Woolf
Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to… — Ian Mcewan
We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of… — Virginia Woolf
Its was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one's… — Kazuo Ishiguro

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