Stretched Quotes

283 quotes by 238 authors

For if you change from inhumanity to alms giving, you have stretched fourth the hand that was withered. If you withdraw from theaters and go… — Saint John Chrysostom
Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble… — Mark Twain
A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every manâ€™s business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every manâ€™s… — Richard E. Byrd
In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language of the Qur'an,… — Jim Al-Khalili
Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking, and ending in… — Oswald Chambers
You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly. — Rumi
Sometimes she goes out to work as a practical nurse, and comes home and sits by the kitchen table soaking her feet in a pan… — William Maxwell
The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched. — Neal A. Maxwell
It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is,… — Robert Browning
When the whistle blew and the call stretched thin across the night, one had to believe that any journey could be sweet to the soul. — Charles Tennyson Turner
...the sounds next door served as a kind of trip wire: I seemed to stumble and fall on my face, skinning and bruising myself here… — John Cheever
How much are you worth? Jesus says, with his arms stretched out on the cross, "I'm willing to die for you, because you mean this… — Rick Warren
Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window,… — Oscar Wilde
The scriptures speak of His arms being open, extended, stretched out, and encircling. They are described as mighty and holy, arms of mercy, arms of… — Neil L. Andersen
Like how stars might sound. Or moons But not mountains. Too floaty for mountains. It's a sound like one planet singing to another, high stretched… — Patrick Ness
The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day… — China Mieville
We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
I saw -- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision -- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it. — Mark Twain

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