Stretched Quotes
283 quotes by 238 authors
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I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now…
— Teresa of Avila
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Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm…
— Robert Benchley
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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold.…
— Albert Camus
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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side,…
— Alan Valentine
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I'm about to reach my dreams and I aint even got my arms stretched.
— Drake
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The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf -…
— Alistair Cooke
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The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times...the best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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[When asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure of the atom…
— Albert Einstein
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When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny weather- stretched at…
— Mark Twain
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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
— Harold Rosenberg
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The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those years of infancy…
— Tom Brokaw
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Over the past month, Muslims have fasted, taking no food or water during daylight hours, in order to refocus their minds on faith and redirect…
— George W. Bush
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At the moment I put the bread and wine into those dark hands, once stained with the blood of cannibalism, now stretched out to receive…
— John Gibson Paton
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When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she…
— Sarah Orne Jewett
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For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world…
— Walter Raleigh
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Both desire and imagination are stored in the mind of the individual and when stretched, both have the potential to position a person for greatness.
— Eric Thomas
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To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive.
— Sol Stein
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.
— Truman Capote
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238 authors contributed a total of 283 Stretched Quotes, led by these top contributors: