Stretches Quotes

175 quotes by 167 authors

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday. — Theodor Adorno
But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from… — Buffalo Bill
Being a runner, professional or recreational, means that you are part of a community that stretches across the globe. — Lanni Marchant
My little children, your hearts, are small, but prayer stretches them and makes them capable of loving God. Through prayer we receive a foretaste of… — John Vianney
An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass… — Eric Cantona
We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches… — Mark Twain
Worship is the highest act of which a person is capable. It not only stretches us beyond all the limits of our finite selves to… — Samuel Henry Miller
Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion… — Sissela Bok
The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the senses. No communication… — Heinrich Hertz
There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on… — Ruth Stout
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this… — George Wald
I'm a big believer in growth. Life is not about achievement, it's about learning and growth, and developing qualities like compassion, patience, perseverance, love, and… — Jack Canfield
Prayer is spiritual exercise and every act of prayer stretches the soul. — James Dillet Freeman
Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go round and round… — H. Rider Haggard
They must be real people. And this means that every word in every line of speech must be accurate and full of some kind of… — John Steinbeck
In many cases, a bout with sickness stretches your soul, opens your eyes, and introduces you to a world of unimagined grandeur, possibility and joy. — Tony Snow
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 life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light,… — Alexander MacLaren

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