Stretched Quotes

283 quotes by 238 authors

The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to… — Franz Kafka
There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame… — Theodore Roosevelt
It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the… — China Mieville
another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the countryâ€™s founding to the glory of the civil rights movement,… — Barack Obama
Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless… — Stephen King
The road now stretched across open country, and it occured to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like… — Vladimir Nabokov
The world stands out on either side No wider than the heart is wide; Above the world is stretched the sky, No higher than the… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking,… — John Adams
There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading. — Barbara Pym
I lay there, stretched out, looking at the one star visible through the tiny window of the room. Only connect. How can you do that… — Jeanette Winterson
soon I'll finish this 5th of Puerto Rican rum. in the morning I'll vomit and shower, drive back in, have a sandwich by 1 p.m.,… — Charles Bukowski
Chingachgook grasped the hand that, in the warmth of feeling, the scout had stretched across the fresh earth, and in that attitude of friendship these… — James F. Cooper
The silence between us stretched out, but it wasn't awkward. Sometimes there are people you can be quiet with, and you never feel the need… — Claudia Gray
She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and… — Zora Neale Hurston
Heads in the Women's Ward On pillow after pillow lies The wild white hair and staring eyes; Jaws stand open; necks are stretched With every… — Philip Larkin
At least I thought it was a wall. It sure felt like one. It was hard. It was flat. It stretched out on either side… — D. J. MacHale
To you who think you are lost or without hope, or who think you have done too much that was too wrong for too long,… — Jeffrey R. Holland
The elevator doors opened, and Ranger stepped out and spied Tank stretched out on the carpet. "Fainted," I said. Ranger walked to Tank and stood… — Janet Evanovich
It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out… — Jack Kerouac

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