Stretched Quotes

283 quotes by 234 authors

The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust. — Alice Munro
Make no mistake, our military readiness is already suffering, ... According to a recent RAND study, the Army has been stretched so thin that active-duty… — Russ Feingold
And I criedâ€¦ for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins. — Sonia Sanchez
I was walking down the road with two friends when the sun set; suddenly, the sky turned as red as blood. I stopped and leaned… — Edvard Munch
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things… — Richard P. Feynman
As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth across my blue sky,… — Yves Klein
Cocoa-buttered girls were stretched out on the public beach in apparently random alignments, but maybe if a weather satellite zoomed in on one of those… — Bonnie Jo Campbell
How many times can our emotions be tied to someone else's - be pulled and stretched and twisted - before they snap? Before they can… — Stephanie Perkins
I've always been a late bloomer. My body developed late. From ninth to 10th grade, I grew like 3 inches. Just kind of stretched out.… — Paul Pierce
Struggles are a part of the sacred sanctification process. There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point that we are… — L. Lionel Kendrick
If the cells and fibres in one human brain were all stretched out end to end, they would certainly reach to the moon and back.… — Colin Blakemore
Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young. — Antony Jay
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
What should be shrunken must first be stretched. — Laozi
Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed,… — Zach Wamp
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time. — Alan Valentine
In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated merchants… — Jack Weatherford
All that I now hold dear in life began to mature in the mission field. Had I not been encouraged to be a missionary, I… — Richard G. Scott
Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own will had been stretched that… — James Clavell
If a nuclear disaster occurred, and you had to live out those final painful days just stretched out somewhere thinking about your life--This is who… — Jill McCorkle

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