#stretch

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#blotted #characters #loneliness #mind #never

The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#began #better #better time #day #days

Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing. ↗

— Hope Davis

#barbecue #beaches #car #city #coasts

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

— Desiderius Erasmus

#generally #heavens #hide #like #privilege

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money. ↗

— S. E. Hinton

#express #feelings #i #i write #idea

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

By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life. ↗

— Thomas More

#daily #guiding #include #infinity #inviting

Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together. ↗

— Keanu Reeves

#basically #choreography #come #dance #four

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

— Harold Rosenberg

#around #become #dominant #especially #europe

Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden. ↗

— John Spratt

#america #band #burden #commitments #country