Expand And Contract Quotes

#1. Some people have sex by putting fishhooks in each other. Couple this act with a simple understanding of the basic function of all living creatures to expand and contract. Now, try that with fishhooks.

Sarah Schulman

#2. Joey told me nothing ever goes back exactly the way it was, that things expand and contract- like breathing, but you could never fill your lungs up with the same air twice.

Andrew Smith

#3. My recollections of Armenia open new visions for me. My art is therefore a growth art where forms, pines, shapes, memories of Armenia germinate, breathe, expand and contract, multiply and thereby create new paths for exploration.

Arshile Gorky

#4. Beat, beat, pause. Contract, expand. Inhale, exhale.

Colleen Hoover

#5. None of us are really normal. We're all just strange pieces in the world.

Krista Ritchie

#6. Rather than see ageing as a reason to contract, we should view it as an opportunity to expand. We should make each year of our lives are more interesting than the one before.

Srinivas Rao

#7. The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.

Marcel Proust

#8. We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#9. For the record, I am not a nut. I am an optimist. That's exactly like a nut except with a better attitude.

Scott Adams

#10. When the opponent expand, I contract. When he contracts, I expand. And, when there is an opportunity, I do not hit - it hits all by itself.

Bruce Lee

#11. Love seems to open and expand us right down to the cellular level, while fear causes us to contract and withdraw into ourselves.

Sharon Salzberg

#12. Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.

Alex Tabarrok

#13. Lies can be expensive to maintain, Alexa. And I'm sure we haven't seen one percent of the price that the lies in this case ultimately will exact.

Theodore Jerome Cohen

#14. No matter what your spiritual condition is, no matter where you find yourself in the universe, your choice is always the same: to expand your awareness or contract it.

Thaddeus Golas

#15. By collecting things in one spot, you can also compare items that are similar in design, making it easier to decide whether you want to keep them.

Marie Kondo

#16. I have always believed that the only way to cope with a cash crisis is not to contract but to try to expand out of it.

Richard Branson

#17. She parked near the fence and took a deep breath. Curious, she did it
again, feeling her lungs expand, then contract. She sat in silence,
letting her body decide what to do next. Her lungs stayed still, but she
didn't feel as though she was suffocating.
"Yep, dead," she whispered.

Rhiannon Frater

#18. The idea of just improvising and riffing can sometimes be at the expense of story.

Jim Rash

#19. Have you ever looked at, say, a picture or a great building or read a paragraph in a book and felt the world suddenly expand and, in the same instant, contract and harden into a kernel of perfect purity? Do you know what I mean? Everything suddenly fits, everything's in its place.

Carol Shields

#20. A simple way to be grateful is to close your eyes for a minute and think of those who never got a chance to open them.-RVM

R.v.m.

#21. Resist the suppressive pressure to contract, and instead expand in defiance.

Bryant McGill

#22. We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others - both human and animal.

Gregory Colbert

#23. It doesn't rain at all in California. Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian.

Hugh Laurie

#24. What can I give for
Your knowledge
Of when to expand
And when to contract -
This instructed, more academic college
Of when to act?

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#25. Our politicians, by their words and policies, either expand or contract the frontiers of freedom. We the people either monitor and encourage its progress, or witness and suffer its decline. (Scott L. Vanatter)

Scott L. Vanatter

#26. Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

Dennis Prager

#27. Boys are given the universe in which to carve out their identities, the promise of infinite space for them to expand into and contract upon. Girls are allowed only enough room to be stars, and they must twinkle, twinkle if they want anyone to pay attention to them.

Clementine Ford

#28. What the fissure through which one sees disaster? The circle is unbroken; the harmony complete. Here is the central rhythm; here the common mainspring. I watch it expand, contract; and then expand again. Yet I am not included.

Virginia Woolf

#29. If you repress rather than unlock the potential of large groups of Americans, what's that going to do to our economy? It's going to contract, not expand.

John Prendergast

#30. Being a Christian means accepting Christ as your savior, your God. That's why you are called a 'Christian.' If you remove Christ, there's only 'ian' and that means 'I am nothing.'

Manny Pacquiao

#31. Though time seems to expand or contract between idle and frantic moments, it passes the same in both: second by second. You can neither lose it or create it. Use it wisely.

Gavin Mills