Best Stretches Sayings
175 Stretches quotes by 165 unique authors
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You can always tell the old river hand by the way in which he stretches himself out upon the cushions at the bottom of the…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in…
— Bill Gates
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Death is the end of a stage, not the end of the journey. The road stretches on beyond our comprehension.
— Oliver Lodge
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Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.
— Ruth Stout
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The more people one has to love, the more one's capacity to love stretches.
— Quentin Crisp
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Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness
— Carl Jung
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Even the two times that I left, I never really felt like I left the band. It's very bizarre. It's like there's sort of an…
— Rick Wakeman
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Even animals have a conscience. Those in the jungle KILL only to eat, not live to kill. This is why we often see packs of…
— Suzy Kassem
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God, the Master Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with the pleasures. Nothing…
— Max Lucado
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He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer…
— Samuel Eliot Morison
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In vast stretches of the earth, men awoke today in hunger. They will spend the day in unceasing toil. And as the sun goes down…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Going on the road for long stretches can seem daunting, and I certainly miss being home sometimes, but the chance to see so many different…
— John Mulaney
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The last speaker alluded to this movement as being that of a few disappointed women. From the first years to which my memory stretches, I…
— Lucy Stone
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Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious to the praying…
— Lisa See
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With each day in Africa, a gazelle wakes up knowing he must outrun the fastest lion or perish. At the same time, a lion stirs…
— Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
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Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch;…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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When a man falls on his knees and stretches his hands heavenward, he is doing the most natural thing in the world.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast stretches yet to…
— Eugene V. Debs
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Democrats inhabit the low shores of Puget Sound, mostly on its eastern side, in a ragged trail of port-cities that stretches from Bellingham, close to…
— Jonathan Raban
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Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there are elements of…
— Kristin Hannah
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All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches.
— Bertrand Russell
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The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a…
— Debbie Allen
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At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three hours, that's enough.…
— Peter Carey
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