Top 100 Quotes About Stretches

#1. The best thing to do is try and make sure you're getting something at your end. We had stretches where we didn't get that.

Bo Ryan

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#2. I had come to appreciate the long open stretches of two-lane highway across the sagey sea and mountain-studded plateau of the Great Basin, but the towns and cities were another thing. I liked the natural face of Nevada, but was not as impressed by the human face.

Neil Peart

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#3. Sometimes it's blood memory ... not the blood your mother and father gave you ... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

Martha Graham

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#4. The time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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#5. In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.

Nicanor Parra

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#6. Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.

Sissela Bok

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#7. Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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#8. Death stretches out like a clothesline, and then suddenly blows:
blows a dark sound that swells the sheets
and beds are sailing into a harbor
where death is waiting, dressed as an admiral

Pablo Neruda

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#9. You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.

George Wald

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#10. My name is Herbert Badgery. I am a hundred and thirty-nine years old and something of a celebrity. They come and look at me and wonder how I do it. There are weeks when I wonder the same, whole stretches of terrible time. It is hard to believe you can feel so bad and still not die.

Peter Carey

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#11. My sense of romance stretches a little further than a barrage balloon.

Ian Kelsey

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#12. She'd call us her bee-utiful girls and take us for hot chocolate on Mondays, because Fridays didn't deserve all the attention. It was funny. I used to think of myself as a Monday and Ellen as a Friday. But Mondays and Fridays were just twenty-four-hour stretches of time with different names.

Julie Murphy

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#13. The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows.

Donald G. Mitchell

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#14. Even at the end of the road, read the first sentence, there is a road. Even at the end of the road, a new road stretches out, endless and open, a road that may lead anywhere. To him who will find it, there is always a road.

D.J. MacHale

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#15. Like opium, nerve annihilation stretches up my veins to pump incinerating anguish through my body.

Poppet

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#16. Maria loved the way she and Liz could just sit in the same room together, each doing their own thing, sometimes talking, sometimes not. You had to be really good friends with someone before it felt this comfortable to basically ignore them for long stretches of time.

Melinda Metz

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#17. Allow some warm-up time each day to stimulate your creative flow. A pianist does keyboard exercises. A gymnast stretches. An artist needs to loosen up, too. It takes a few minutes to shift from the real world into a creative mode.

Nita Leland

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#18. Historically, we have always seen reversion to the mean. After stocks have had an unusually great 10 or 20 years, they typically turn in subpar results over the next 10 or 20, and after bad 10- to 20-year stretches, the next 10 to 20 tend to be above average.

James O'Shaughnessy

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#19. After several minutes, picture that your entire body is merging with the blue sky. Feel that you have become the infinite blue sky that stretches endlessly in every direction.

Frederick Lenz

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#20. Only Dostoevsky can be Dostoevskian at such long, tumultuous stretches;
look what intensity did to poor Van Gogh!

John Tagliabue

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#21. In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast stretches yet to be covered before the prison becomes, if it ever does, an institution for the reclamation and rehabilitation of erring and unfortunate men and women.

Eugene V. Debs

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#22. The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest space. We are always at the beginning of the beginning of the letter A.

Alberto Manguel

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#23. That is the nature of hope. We do all we can, and then the Lord stretches forth his hand and touches our lives with light and courage and, most of all, hope.

Dwan J. Young

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#24. ... always hold your heads high like a sunflower that stretches toward the light."

Childrens' book 'Land of Sunshine

Malene Rossau

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#25. Although I was raised in Canada and the U.K., my roots are in Egypt through my father, in a family line that stretches back generations and runs along the Nile, from the concrete of Cairo to the coast of Alexandria.

Shereen El Feki

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#26. The roles I was lucky enough to get were real stretches for me: usually a character who was older, or a little weird, or whatever. And it was hard, not just for the lack of work but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you.

Kathy Bates

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#27. Hell - you'll be lucky to join the circus!"
"I don't need to join the circus." Ethan stretches his arms to the sky, bored with the entire situation. "I live with you, don't I?"
"He so got Tad there," I whisper.

Addison Moore

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#28. A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

Aberjhani

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#29. In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#30. He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.

Charles R. Cross

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#31. Then she stretches her legs
toward the ceiling,
aiming for the sky
My sister doesn't know
that I've already been there

Kelsey Sutton

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#32. People go to admire lofty mountains, and huge breakers at sea, and crashing waterfalls, and vast stretches of ocean, and the dance of the stars, but they leave themselves behind out of sight.

Augustine Of Hippo

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#33. There is no such thing as 'one sided love' in nature. Its only that two vectors are separated by barren stretches of time, space and lives.

Kartikey Singh

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#34. What do I most love to do? (I love it so much I can do it for long stretches of time without getting tired or bored.)

Gay Hendricks

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#35. Death is the end of a stage, not the end of the journey. The road stretches on beyond our comprehension.

Oliver Lodge

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#36. We'd also left lots of time unscheduled - the long stretches of hours we'd spend at the beach or walking around or just hanging out with no plan beyond maybe getting fountain Diet Cokes. It was Sloane - you usually didn't need more than that to have the best Wednesday of your life.

Morgan Matson

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#37. We're just doing our best to live in this world, Davy." Sean's voice stretches into the fading dark. "We're not perfect, but we're not monsters, either. We're just human.

Sophie Jordan

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#38. One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts
they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have believed in.

Georg Simmel

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#39. Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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#40. Too bad Einstein's dead. I'm sure he would have appreciated my latest discovery
within the space-time continuum.The closer you are to experiencing a monumental event, the longer time
stretches out. It makes you feel alone

Susane Colasanti

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#41. When you're little, time stretches obligingly, and vacation is forever.

Peg Bracken

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#42. My training in martial arts was kind of a crash course in how to look like a black belt. I know the moves of a black belt - my kicks, and my stretches, and my punches and all that.

William Zabka

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#43. The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.

Karen Joy Fowler

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#44. LOVE STRETCHES YOUR HEART AND MAKE YOU BIG INSIDE

Badrul Hisham Shari

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#45. I move onward, through the colors and cheers and music, floating into my future, and it is a clear, open space that stretches wider that the sky and higher than the Andes.

Laura Resau

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#46. Want to try it?" Dad offered, patting the arm of the chair. "Fifteen different kinds of massage. It analyzes your back muscles and makes recommendations. It also grabs and stretches the thigh and calf muscles."
"No, thanks. I prefer my furniture to keep its hands to itself.

Lisa Kleypas

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#47. Going on the road for long stretches can seem daunting, and I certainly miss being home sometimes, but the chance to see so many different cities, let alone perform in them, is something I am really grateful for.

John Mulaney

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#48. There are such moments in a life. Solitary seconds on which the reality of what life means pivots and turns from a dead end toward a road of untrodden grass that stretches on forever.

Jonathan Maberry

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#49. I feel it in me like a woman having a baby, all that life churning inside me. I feel it every day; it moves, stretches, yawns. It's getting ready to be born. It knows exactly what it is.

Maurice Sendak

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#50. Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.

Bill Watterson

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#51. One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.

Seth Godin

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#52. I don't know how you look at the inside of your head - what metaphor you choose - but for those of us with endless yawning stretches of interior and nothing but nothing to stop us from getting lost in it, drugs can be wonderfully helpful.

James St. James

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#53. Look deep into my soul than what stretches the fabric of my clothes

Morgan Chabane

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#54. Are we broken?" I whisper as it grows dark and the hour stretches late. "I think everyone gets broken at some point.

Keary Taylor

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#55. I deal with long blank stretches of empty boredom by laying on my bed, staring at the ceiling, imagining situations in which I might die. Apparently, Sherlock deals with it by microwaving shoes.

Eva Morgan

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#56. Is it so hard to offer your help and sympathy to somebody in grief? It takes a little to make one step, but, in an inexplicable manner, it stretches into thousands of kilometers. All of us are full of empathy and consolation but always prefer to express it from a distance.

Igor Eliseev

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#57. Traveling is difficult when you go for long stretches at a time, but you always come back refreshed, feeling that you've accomplished something. I'm on my knees before I go anywhere in this world.

Thomas S. Monson

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#58. Somehow, I landed The Walking Dead and it's great because it stretches and works different muscles for me, and it really lets me stretch myself as a performer. Now, I'm really excited to flex my comedy muscle. Hopefully, I'll get some opportunities to do that.

Steven Yeun

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#59. The cure for impatience with the fulfillment of God's timetable is to believe His promises, obey His will, and leave the results to Him. So often when God's timetable stretches into years we become discouraged and ... want to give up or try to work something out on our own.

Jerry Bridges

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#60. Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time.

Steven L. Peck

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#61. Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying for a writer I enjoy reading regularly to hole up in Heidegger's hut for four or five years to bring forth a mountain.

James Wolcott

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#62. All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches.

Bertrand Russell

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#63. We the people say it loud and clear every Election Day, in high-crime periods as well as peaceful stretches - More of our population needs to be behind bars.

Thomas Frank

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#64. The spirituality of the sun was, for thousands of years, the dominant religion of the ancient world. If you trace it far back enough, its origin stretches well beyond recorded history into the most ancient sacred texts, and from there, into the most ancient of myths and legends.

Belsebuub

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#65. Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.

Robin Hobb

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#66. The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good, communicates himself to the soul that longs to partake of him.

William Law

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#67. Time bows to authentic commitment, and it stretches to accommodate it.

Will Hewett

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#68. As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.

Robert Falcon Scott

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#69. The secrets of evolution, are time and death.
There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us.

Carl Sagan

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#70. You haven't stammered and stuttered in a while now that I think about." A grin stretches his sexy mouth. "Could someone finally be warming up to me?"
I warmed up to you the day we met. I melted for you the second you kissed me.

Sarina Bowen

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#71. Your young heart is a wild, elastic thing. Now, I fear that age and time and experience stretches it too hard, too far, and it will never snap back.

Karina Halle

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#72. Walking takes longer ... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.

Edward Abbey

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#73. Time is elastic. It stretches to accommodate what we need or want to do with it.

Laura Vanderkam

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#74. The skin around the assistant director's eyes stretches.

Anthony Doerr

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#75. He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience.

Samuel Eliot Morison

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#76. Time stretches and calms, but still we reach, for we belonged then. We want to know. Sometimes that knowledge is painful, or inconvenient, or even damning. But it is essential. It exposes us for what we have been, and can be.

Mark Mustian

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#77. Live more and more in the present, which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future.

Meher Baba

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#78. If one stretches out the DNA contained in the nucleus of a human cell, one obtains a two-yard-long thread that is only ten atoms wide. This thread is a billion times longer than its own width. Relatively speaking, it is as if your little finger stretched from Paris to Los Angeles.

Jeremy Narby

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#79. Knees, my calves, and my shoulders. I feel the bed dip as he stretches out

E.L. James

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#80. Besides walking, I do stretches every day. I had back trouble starting when I turned 40, so I have to stretch out my muscles every day.

Anne Graham Lotz

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#81. You can always tell the old river hand by the way in which he stretches himself out upon the cushions at the bottom of the boat, and encourages the rowers by telling them anecdotes about the marvellous feats he performed last season.

Jerome K. Jerome

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#82. I drive toward it not wanting it getting it getting it as the cat stretches yawns and rolls over into another dream.

Charles Bukowski

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#83. Maybe what life needs is a good soundtrack, especially during the long stretches when nothing interesting is being said. A soundtrack might dignify things a bit, ennobling us with the proper drama and tension and pathos.

Jonathan Hull

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#84. Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#85. Many climate scientists say their biggest fear is that warming could melt the Arctic permafrost - which stretches for thousands of miles across Alaska, Canada, and Siberia.

Michael Specter

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#86. Law and order, punishment and fair play, are all on a continuum where there are far more gray stretches than there are black and white.

Sue Grafton

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#87. Seelie Court," murmurs Nate. "Sounds familiar. Was it in a computer game?"
"Do I look like someone who plays computer games?"
A grin stretches across Nate's face. "You look like someone who could be in a computer game.

Rachel Morgan

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#88. But Sunday morning, things change. When we wake up, St. Clair stretches and accidentally smacks my boobs. Which not only hurts but also mortifies us both equally.

Stephanie Perkins

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#89. Marriage is a linchpin in many women's lives, but many other things can create a satisfying life. I adore my career. It stretches every physical, emotional, and intellectual muscle I have.

Geraldine Stutz

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#90. Erotic intelligence stretches far beyond a repertoire of sexual techniques. It is an intelligence that celebrates curiosity and play, the power of the imagination, and our infinite fascination with what is hidden and mysterious.

Esther Perel

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#91. The Solent was one the worse stretches of sea in England; the current and tides were atrocious, but it was summer and this time the currents and tides were predictable. However, I did not know this; I picked a spot that I could see from the phone, where I would swim from.

Stephen Richards

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#92. There were long stretches where each of us was engaged in a private world of rapidly shifting vignettes. Always I was overwhelmed by the sheer number of human beings ebbing and flowing like the tides of the sea.

Howard Thurman

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#93. After a certain quantity, photos apparently taken by chance, postcards chosen according to a passing mood, begin to trace an itinerary, to map the imaginary country that stretches out before us.

Chris Marker

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#94. The changing seasons of circumstance can melt away stretches of our lives like frost in the warmth of spring.

Richard Paul Evans

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#95. We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.

Facundo Pieres

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#96. For long stretches of time it felt like we were crawling around each other's brain.

Lily King

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#97. I find it impossible to think of a picture save as a window, and my first concern about a window is to find out what it looks out on ... and there is nothing I love so much as something which stretches away from me out of sight.

Andre Breton

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#98. Physically, man is but an atom in space, and a pulsation in time. Spiritually, the entire outward universe receives significance from him, and the scope of his existence stretches beyond the stars.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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#99. There is no perfect love. There is only a right kind of love. This kind of love cares for your well-being, gives you the freedom to live your life, and stretches you to become your best self.

Janet Ong Zimmerman

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#100. Outside, he stretches up his arms beneath the brightening sky. His breath and heartbeat like a gift newly restored to him.

Glenn Haybittle

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