#stretched

And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#brackets #each #either #enclosing #except

The important thing to understand about legislators is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them. They are stretched thin. ↗

— Mark Shields

#competing #dozens #important #important thing #interests

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#idea #mind #never #new #new idea

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#dimensions #goes #idea #man #mind

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

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism. ↗

— Albert Camus

#complete #fact #find #intelligence #itself

There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#farther #fed #indians #lived #man

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

#bow #break #keep #soon #stretched

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

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

— Antony Jay

#men #stature #stretched #which #young