Stretched Quotes

283 quotes by 238 authors

Once upon a time Apache land would have stretched farther than the horizon, through New Mexico almost to Texas, but as white men found gold,… — Victoria Finlay
And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten… — Jerry Garcia
The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected. — Al Gore
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end. — Elia Kazan
Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable. — Paul Lynde
You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched. — Norman Vincent Peale
I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance. — Arthur Rimbaud
Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched. — Charles R. Swindoll
The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it,… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly. From the zenith… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and… — Marisha Pessl
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence… — Rumi
And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick… — Charles Dickens
I don't want to go on being a root in the dark, vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep, downward, in the soaked guts of the… — Pablo Neruda
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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