Stretched Quotes

283 quotes by 238 authors

Are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to… — Thomas Jefferson
It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no… — Eric Hoffer
My soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love. Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it… — Rumi
But while nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the… — Douglas Adams
What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon mother earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and… — Erwin Schrodinger
It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours… — Barack Obama
Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the… — Stefan Zweig
America, so far as her physical history is concerned, has been falsely denominated the New World. Hers was the first dry land lifted out of… — Louis Agassiz
After the briskness of loving, loving stops. And you roll over with death stretched out alongside you like a feather boa, or a snake, light… — Susan Minot
Honestly, I think I`ve stretched a talent which is so thin it`s almost transparent over a quite unbelievable term of years. — Bing Crosby
I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy. — Terence Stamp
If one stretches out the DNA contained in the nucleus of a human cell, one obtains a two-yard-long thread that is only ten atoms wide.… — Jeremy Narby
Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine. — K.P. Yohannan
I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well. — Arthur C. Clarke
And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past,… — Clifford D. Simak
The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from… — Stephen Crane
Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve — John Calvin
What I remember best from those times is the music itself. When it succeded, we took hold of the audience's attention, working it from a… — Andromeda Romano-Lax
There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven. From the clouds… — Robert Green Ingersoll

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