Quotes of Stretched - somelinesforyou

“ And we went in, and then we pulled out. As Napoleon said, if you say you're going to take Vienna, you take Vienna. ”

- John McCain

“ Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor. ”

- Samuel Johnson

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“ A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never reurn to it's original dimensions. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“ A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“ Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“ Microsoft has stretched itself so thin, within a couple of years it will experience serious reversals. We'll make the millennium my deadline. ”

- Bob Lewis

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ Honestly, I think I've stretched a talent-which is so thick that it's almost opaque-over a quite unbelievable term of years. ”

- Bing Crosby

“ 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

“ A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

- Phaedrus

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

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, but never in want. ”

- Irish Toast

“ An overburdened, over-stretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people. ”

- Jack Welch

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

- Harold Rosenberg

“ There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. ”

- Mark Twain

“ You will break the bow if you keep it always stretched. ”

- Phaedrus

“ The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down. ”

- Sean Stewart

“ Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites — opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity — where energies flow smoothly in one direction — there will be much doing but no music. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ To live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but … to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness. ”

- Carl Frederick Buechner

“ The way of describing this unlooked-for scene, the history of the patriot ship, told at first so coldly, and the emotion with which this strange man pronounced the last words, the name of the Avenger, the significance of which could not escape me, all impressed itself deeply on my mind… ”

- Jules Verne
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