#stretched

Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further. ↗

— Zach Wamp

#borders #citizens #control #costs #failure

There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#farther #fed #indians #lived #man

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#idea #mind #never #new #new idea

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#dimensions #goes #idea #man #mind

And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

#bringing #demographics #gotten #grandparents #i

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#always #believable #comedy #exaggerated #ludicrous

I've always been a late bloomer. My body developed late. From ninth to 10th grade, I grew like 3 inches. Just kind of stretched out. I was like 6-1, grew to 6-4 in 10th grade. ↗

— Paul Pierce

#been #bloomer #body #developed #grade

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#dance #garlands #golden #i #ropes

I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy. ↗

— Terence Stamp

#enough #fancy #i #some #stretched

Alleged "impossibilities" are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#capacities #impossibilities #opportunities #our #stretched