#stretch

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#continuing #disappointed #finding #man #out

After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#different #different roles #doing #excitement #left

I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#i #like #myself #something #stretch

One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#belly #body #butter #ceremony #every

Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance. ↗

— Paul Martin

#canada #cities #distance #down #endless

By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life. ↗

— Thomas More

#daily #guiding #include #infinity #inviting

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#been #city #cut #defined #ever

We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction. ↗

— Martin O'Malley

#go #growth #had #happened #hasn

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

#around #become #dominant #especially #europe

Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden. ↗

— John Spratt

#america #band #burden #commitments #country