Stretch Quotes

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
Wayne Dyer

Change, Minds, Lives

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

Cannot, Hand, Hands

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.
Lao Tzu

Her, Ambition, She

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Albert Camus

Beauty, Time, Whole

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
Katharine Hepburn

Mind, Next, Innovation

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
Bill Copeland

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.
Bryant H. McGill

Life, Yourself, Greatest

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
Blaise Pascal

Good, Tired, True

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.
Les Brown

Yourself, Put, Outside

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.
Donald Trump

Live, Same, Birth

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
Mary Kay Ash

Good, Goal, Makes

I'm not as hard on myself anymore. I'm comfortable exactly where I am, though it took me until I was 34 years old! I still have things I'm really insecure about, but I've changed by loving me - C-section scars, stretch marks, and all.
Jenny McCarthy

Hard, Insecure, Old

So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Him, Made, House

Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.
Lady Gaga

Life, Real, Perfect

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
Desiderius Erasmus

Hide, Accepted, Privilege

I always knew I couldn't sing, but I also knew I had a voice that isn't heard by many, and that I could learn how to stretch it and make songs sound good.
Lil Wayne

Good, Learn, Knew

In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.
Suze Orman

Life, Power, Courage

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
Jackson Pollock

Before, Painting, Canvas

What is really a stretch to me is to make quick decisions.
Ang Lee

Decisions, Quick

It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
Jack Nicholson

Character, Playing, Trouble

I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch.
Emma Thompson

Life, Daily, Film

Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.
Toni Morrison

Time, Job, Long

People underestimate me, but I've always been a stretch runner.
Sonny Bono

When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.
Jessica Lange

Work, Home, Antsy

Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.
Rashida Jones

Best, Character, Real

I live for Pilates reformer class. I go at least three times a week. It's a great way to lengthen your muscles, stretch, and kind of relax your mind.
Shawn Johnson

Great, Live, Mind

I think it's important to stretch as you get older, but I try to do basically all the things I did when I played, except I can't do them as well and as much.
Mike Ditka

Important, Try, Older

I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower.
Hugh Laurie

Him, Flower, Talk

Before the operation on my left hand I wasn't able to stretch my fingers open all the way. I've never had very big hands, but I could do the splits with them. Eventually I couldn't any more. I had a twisted tendon in my little finger that prevented me from being able to stretch.
Eddie Van Halen

Before, Big, Able

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, Working, Old

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