Stretched Quotations

Muscle is constantly being used - constantly being damaged. If every time we tore a muscle or every time we stretched a muscle or moved in a wrong way, cancer occurred - I mean, everybody would have cancer almost.

There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point that we are prepared to live in the presence of the Savior. And there can be blessings in the burdens we bear. As a result of these struggles, our souls are stretched and our spirits are strengthened. Our character becomes more Christlike as we are tried and tested.

Mugabe had a very strange quality about him. He was dapper. He had the strangest skin - it looks very shiny, but it's not oily. It's stretched very finely over his flesh. His eyes have layers of cyan crystals in them. It was a quiet, dark moment when I took his picture.

When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.

I was born in the summer of 1970, the last of five boys stretched over eight years. My parents were a struggling young couple who had been married one afternoon under a shade tree by a preacher without a church. No guests or fancy dress, just the two of them, lost in love, and the preacher taking a break from working on a house.

There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the elastic at the waist stretched to its limit and beyond - topped with the fashion equivalent of a tea cozy. And always black, because I was in mourning for my slimmer self.

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

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.

Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.

One of the things that is really unique about Neal is that, although he stretched out so fast and even though he didn't have some of the strength he has now, he maintained his skill level. That's really rare. Typically, when kids grow that fast, the phone rings and they fall, and that didn't happen with Neal.

Now there was no wonder in the Statue of Liberty illusion because he, Copperfield, attempted to do something so large that it stretched the credibility of the audience to the point where most people didn't believe any of it anymore.

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I'd love to be able to get my hands on Oliver, the sooner the better. I'd like to get him a routine and stretched out for the start of the season.

I don't know whether it was his movement or hitting the ball on the run. He's not afraid to be stretched out. If he plays like he played today he's got a shot (against Hewitt).

If they go all the way to the finals, he might be stretched out to two innings while we are trying to stretch him to six, seven innings. That's the biggest concern.

When you couple the higher bills that people with adjustable loans saw with the higher-than-expected energy costs, you see a lot of homeowners stretched beyond the point where they could make their payments.

Mike just stretched the defense out and it created more opportunities for me to drive. He came out so aggressive.

We had been walked off the last two days, so it was good that we stretched the game to extra innings and pulled it out. It was a good win for us, especially starting a new month and being back at home. Definitely the kind of game that can get you started in the right direction.

I expected a close game, a very physical game. But I think we stretched them out there in the first quarter by hitting a lot of threes and then we started getting a lot of offensive rebounds, and I think it just kind of snowballed from there. We knew we could run some sets and I told them before the game, if the shots are dropping, let's run with it.

Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.

have stretched out beyond the comfort zone to make this (upgrading) happen.

Here lies one not long dead; His dark hearing caught our far wheels, and the choked soul stretched weak hands To reach the living word the far wheels said, The blood-dazed intelligence beating for light, Crying through the suspense of the far torturi

We stunned a major drug-trafficking ring which stretched through Westchester, New York City and Connecticut,

I look for something that can challenge me or makes me ever so slightly afraid - fearful of how I am going to approach it - then I'll go for it. If the project appears linear or predictable, then I'll usually give it a miss. Anything that involves me being stretched as an actor, I go for.

He was only supposed to go two innings, but the way he threw, we stretched him out to three. He had real good command of his fastball and a real good breaking ball.

He was actually in front of Ira (Fabian) and Neil (Lloyd). I was coming from behind to pass him. As soon as I passed him, he put out his elbow and pushed me off to the left hand side and I just crashed, that was the end of it. I knew nothing else that happened. I'm disappointed in Chris. He knew that we could either sweep the sprint, or he, too, could be involved in it. He didn't play a clean game. We know in every sprint, there are things that take place. But, this beats all. He actually stretched out his hands and pushed. That's not cycling.

He caught a pass in stride, stretched out, and put it up off the glass at full speed. He sold his body out for the team. That kind of typified the quarter for us.

If the BOJ can deliver an exit strategy without creating undue political friction, it could be the catalyst for some associated recovery in the yen, a move that will only be amplified, the more stretched the speculative market allows itself to become.

He?s had one of those years where he had some high spots and some low spots. There was talk of starting (Pedro) Liriano, but with his health issues (a stomach ailment that cost him nearly a month of action) he isn?t stretched out enough. It?s good that the game falls on Gavin?s day to pitch.

Good governance is essential for managing our increasingly stretched supplies of freshwater and indispensable for tackling poverty.

Underneath an apple-treeSat a maiden and her lover;And the thoughts within her heYearned, in silence, to discover.Round them danced the sunbeams bright,Green the grass-lawn stretched before themWhile the apple blossoms whiteHung in rich profusion o'er them.

My mother flew out to see us on April 9. She had never flown before, and that snowstorm stretched from the Midwest to the East Coast. Her trip from Omaha was filled with delays, rough flights and circling airports for hours. She swore she would never fly again.

Our logistics worked well generally, up until 2005. We couldn't imagine how something that big and complicated could happen. It took a process that worked OK and stretched it, and we got to see all the cracks.

Our military is being stretched too thin, to the point of being broken for the foreseeable future. We are asking too much and not giving enough, and we are certainly not any safer than before September 11.

I think Foothills came out and stretched the field early. It looked like we were a quarter-step slow, and they took advantage of that.

I think a lot of resources are being stretched right now, and always with any catastrophic weather event we try to get resources to the most damaged areas as quickly as possible." ()

Jewels five-words long/ That on the stretched forefinger of all Time/ Sparkle for ever.

I stretched and tried to do whatever I could to get in there. It's always nice to have a good backup quarterback that can come in and make plays for you.

I think when we had all of our talent, stretched over the year, we are a force. We knew what we were facing this year.

Repair and assessment operations are going on as we speak and the hurricane season is just around the corner now. Resources are already stretched to the limit.

Our resources are stretched to the limit, and in some cases, beyond the limits.

Our system is stretched thin and supplies are tight, but we don't anticipate any lights being cut off.

I think Trevor has stretched ligaments in his knee but we will not know for sure until all the tests are done. I have got my fingers crossed.

It got tight for us the past couple of years because our staff is stretched to the limit.

We need that bill passed, ... New York City is doing a great job on homeland security, but their resources are stretched as far as they can be stretched, and we're not getting the help from Washington that we need.

I wasn't trying to draw any fouls. When you get in a situation like that, you've got to put the ball in the basket. It was an opportunity where the basket was needed and it stretched the lead out. I just wanted to be patient and take what I could get.

Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, looked down upon her. The little maiden stretched out her hands towards them when--the match went out. The lights of the Christmas tree rose higher and higher, she saw them now as stars in heaven . . .

We all pretty much thought we were going to die. After that it was pain for a few days, but again walking and trying to keep stretched out helped out.

The Army is stretched thin and there is a potential that we could break the force if we are not careful.

We just did not feel comfortable with people being out there stretched out in single file where they could be subject to accidents and possibly expose themselves to provocation from outside groups.

We haven't really stretched him yet. We scored some runs in the fifth inning, and I wanted to get some of our other guys a chance to throw.

We got off to a slow start but played hard on defense and tried to take the fight to them. They're a tough team. They have so many weapons, inside with Brunner and outside with their shooters. They stretched us out and got some open looks at the beginning of the game.

We are now working toward a more economically feasible design, not round, but stretched in length. It's an evolving process for our dreams to go Mars and have a nice habitat there, and not just repeat what cavemen have done.

We received applications from 29 nonprofit groups, all of whom do great work to serve the needs of New Mexicans. Our five-member selection panel focused on organizations that provide critical human services, which are being stretched thin, due to the rapid growth of Rio Rancho and Sandoval County.

While the continued strength of the yen does present a risk to stretched carry positions in high-yield currencies, our near-term expectation is that the yen is unlikely to extend its February gains.

We're already starting to see valuations get stretched again. It's not unlikely that we can get back close to 1,700 on the Nasdaq, but I don't think that's necessarily justifiable. That's just a function of trading psychology in the short run.

We have stretched ourselves remarkably in the circumstances, ... It is also obvious there is a limit to how far we can stretch ourselves without an adequate response being made in the circumstances.

That was a game that we were going to have to play extremely well the entire game to win, and we played fairly well for three quarters. Part of the fourth quarter was fatigue. Too few were doing too much. We just made mistakes. We were stretched very thin.

We shall endeavor to activate and deepen our partnership with our allies of the Progressive Socialist Party and Tayyar Al Mustaqbal. Our hand will remain always stretched out to all,

We shall need compromises in the days ahead, to be sure. But these will be, or should be, compromises of issues, not principles. We can compromise our political positions, but not ourselves. We can resolve the clash of interests without conceding our ideals. And even the necessity for the right kind of compromise does not eliminate the need for those idealists and reformers who keep our compromises moving ahead, who prevent all political situations from meeting the description supplied by Shaw: ""smirched with compromise, rotted with opportunism, mildewed by expedience, stretched out of shape with wirepulling and putrefied with permeation.""Compromise need not mean cowardice. ...

We have really heavily invested our staff in delivering Flumist in the school system and we were going to be stretched kind of thin to be delivering inactivated vaccine at exactly the same time,

We really got the market oversold after the last couple of weeks. We have stretched the rubber band enough on the downside to get some upside bounce.

When I'm working, I try to be serious and rest where I can. I just mark in rehearsals. I still train. I warm up. And I still take lessons from this unbelievable teacher in New York, Joan Lader. I try to be stretched and ready to go.

We've stretched him out to five (games) in a row, at the most, so far,

This story's not about me. This story's about the worst disaster of the history of our country that stretched every government to its limit, and now we have to help these victims. That's all I've wanted to do.

We didn't stretch him out too far. Every time I stretched him out a little bit further than his comfort zone, you could see there was a little bit of a limp. ... We're still a ways away, just because of the nature of the position where you stop and start so much.

The demand is going to come later and be stretched over an extended period of time.

We want to be careful we're not stretched too thin, ... It's a daunting task helping ... local police.

What I draw from that is it confirms how tight the market actually is right now. To us, the big picture is we are in a situation globally and here in the U.S. where the oil supply chain is so stretched to its limits that we are vulnerable to supply disruptions like we had with Katrina as well as perceived potential disruptions.

We came out a little sluggish, but we turned it on and got our second wind and executed when we had a little cushion and stretched the lead.

We ran a 2-3 zone and whichever side she was on, we stretched it to that side.

We weren't clicking on all cylinders, but in the third quarter we stretched the lead from nine to 20 points. The team did a good job against Westland. We learned a tough lesson about taking a team too lightly earlier this season.

We knew that things were getting fairly stretched and there was exposure to potentially even small shocks, but that is not a small shock, ... it's an absolute, monstrous hurricane.

With this kind of hiccup in refinery capacity, in stretched markets like California, you could see over $4 a gallon in gas.

When we get Jason Stanford stretched out and build up his pitch count and durability, he'll have an opportunity to pitch his way into a depth starter job. He'll need two to two-and-a-half months to get back to that level.

We started to bring our four and our five players out to be distributors instead of keeping them on the inside because (Ridgefield) stretched their zone so well and we were really having trouble with the passing angles.

We let them get back in the game a little bit, but I think we grew up because we stretched the lead right back out.

As if Hoosiers' budgets weren't being stretched enough to pay for record gas prices, Mitch Daniels is trying to pile new taxes on the backs of Hoosier motorists. Tripling tolls is not a creative idea and it's not a new idea. It's just a bad idea.

Courtney Sims was phenomenal tonight. Sometimes he doesn't have his best game out there, but tonight he was the difference-maker for us. He stretched our leads, he was our power down low, he was everything for us.

What I would really like from the community is for 50 to 100 people to show up with yellow ribbons to really welcome back the veterans. My dream is to have a large yellow ribbon stretched across the trees at the campus. We want them to know we appreciate their loyalty, patriotism and willingness to pay the ultimate price.

With Lady Gaga I really stretched myself as a creative director, and because I was with this artist from before she got signed I was able to really take control of the opportunity and execute as a creative director.

At some point, when stretched so far, you break. We are not made of elastic.

Things are getting a little bit stretched maybe in terms of P/Es (price-to-earnings valuations), but the reporting season is promising, so it will depend how that plays out.

The tiny tealeaf of consciousness spreads its bittersweet smoke through the sea of the primitive mind. Law is invented, then morality, then love, then forgiveness. Thousands and thousands of ideas, knit together over time, each one less practical and more ornamental than the last, all stretched taut above the wandering, wondering heads like a little pavilion; a temporary shelter for the human project.

The window is obviously getting smaller for him. The positive on it is that he's a bullpen guy and he doesn't need to be stretched out. He doesn't need to go out there and get 15 innings during spring training. We're getting close, though.

The window is obviously getting smaller on him. The positive is he's a bullpen guy. He doesn't need to be stretched out.

The supply side is stretched from an industry perspective, ... It's a little reminiscent of the squeeze we had 25 years ago.

The supply side is stretched from an industry perspective. It's a little reminiscent of the squeeze we had 25 years ago.

The talent is definitely stretched a little thinner. In terms of the concentration of top 100, top 200 players -- it is spread out a little more. You think about going all the way back to Princeton, N.J., where you had the best 200 players in the country. Then, you went to two camps and now we're at three camps. I guess it's not all bad, because now you give more kids an opportunity to be seen. And we tend to lose sight that the game is supposed to be about opportunities for kids to get an education or be seen and do something better with their lives, as opposed to making it sane for college coaches.

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I've turned it more than once and it's pretty stretched out. All it needed was a quick tweak and it was OK.

I've not seen a period like we're witnessing today. Everybody is quite stretched in people and assets to respond to the increased demand.

I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.

The rubber band was stretched tight and this thing was set up like a slingshot, ... It doesn't surprise me it snapped back. It surprises me it went down in a straight line for so long.

The rubber band was stretched tight and this thing was set up like a slingshot. It doesn't surprise me it snapped back. It surprises me it went down in a straight line for so long.

The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits.

These are turbulent times for oil markets. Prices are under pressure because the petroleum industries infrastructure is stretched thin. Most of the spare capacity of the 1980s and 1990s has disappeared, resulting in a system that has a much smaller margin for error.

It was a one-point game and pretty soon, the lead was stretched to 10. We made seven turnovers in five minutes that Central converted into easy baskets.

It was a little close after the first quarter, but then we stretched it out. Our offense was really well balanced." ()