#stretch

And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#brackets #each #either #enclosing #except

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

When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things. ↗

— Kiefer Sutherland

#age #anything #anyway #around #awful

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, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#away #could #edge #ended #enormous

I like watching people stretch in the park. It's my new favorite pastime since I bought a portable rack. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#pastime #stretch #funny

I train my muscles, and I do a lot of stretching, and try to kick higher. But for me, practicing kung-fu is a way to relax myself. ↗

— Stephen Chow

#i #i do #kick #lot #me

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#flowers #forgets #hand #his #man

One step outside the gate, and we are among the sand-hills that stretch for miles and miles round Vera Cruz. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#cruz #gate #miles #outside #round

Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#booming #course #fantasy #i #i think

24 hour broadcasts have to stretch limited material to fit 24 hours worth of space. ↗

— Drew Curtis

#fit #hour #hours #limited #material