#stretched

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

— Arthur Rimbaud

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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

You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#bow #break #keep #soon #stretched

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#already #cannot #child #children #dogs

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#carpet #end #huge #like #me

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#always #broken #cannot #does #falsehood

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#back #dimensions #go #mind #never

Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young. ↗

— Antony Jay

#men #stature #stretched #which #young

When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame. ↗

— Wayne Kramer

#bands #beatles #before #could #end