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“An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.”
Albert Einstein
“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.”
Wayne Dyer
“Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.”
Charles R. Swindoll
“Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.”
Charles Scribner Jr.
“Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.”
Swami Vivekananda
“Rays from the sunrise drew forth the buds and stretched them into long stalks, lifted up sap in noiseless streams, opened petals, and sucked out scents in invisible jets and breathings.”
Thomas Hardy
“[Gatsby] stretched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast...and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The hills,Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun, -- the valesStretching in pensive quietness between;The venerable woods -- rivers that moveIn majesty, and the complaining brooksThat make the meadows green; and, poured round all,Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, --Are but the solemn decorations allOf the great tomb of man.”
William Cullen Bryant
“My daughter made me a Jerry Springer-watching kit, with crackers, Cheez Whiz, polyester stretch pants and a T-shirt with two fat women fighting over a skinny guy.”
Roseanne Barr
“During that one stretch the middle opened up quite a bit more. It was difficult (to create shots), but it was possible, not impossible.”
Betsy Rietema
