Stretch Hard Quotes

#1. Dare to stretch hard and make it a point to do the hard thing others are afraid to try.

Israelmore Ayivor

#2. I clenched my jaw as hard as I could. It wasn't much of a stretch to keep pretending to be angry, but I tried to go all Method actor on them. Eat your heart out, Sir Ian.

Jim Butcher

#3. . . . everywhere a good and a bad book

Thomas Carlyle

#4. Art is like a kite. You have to pull the string hard in order to stretch it to its limit, but you don't want to pull it so hard that you break the thread, because the thread connects you to the land and its peoples.

Wu Guanzhong

#5. It's hard to stay flexible if you don't stretch. I think if you train the right way you'll be flexible. There are people that don't appreciate the value of stretching. I think it's very important.

Darren Shahlavi

#6. MORPHEUS: I did not intend to hurt you,
THESSALY: And what if you did not? Intent and outcome are so rarely coincident.

Neil Gaiman

#7. Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#8. Now walk into the bedroom , lie on your back on the bed, stretch your arms above your head, spread your legs, and prepare to take me. Hard and deep.

Samantha Young

#9. It's a great stretch for me to do my game show. It's very hard. It's not me at all. The only part that's me is sort of when I'm sitting in the booth looking tormented. That's the only part that's the real me.

Ben Stein

#10. I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role, whether it was performing the rhymes, studying the dialect, her swagger and her stage performances. I wanted people to see my range and stretch my wings as an actress.

Naturi Naughton

#11. Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.

Jonathan Ive

#12. Just as children have growing pains as their bodies work to attain maturity, as people's souls deepen and gain resonance it's the same thing. To be challenged, to stretch, to get stronger comes only with the hard stuff - loss, heartache, disappointment.

J.R. Ward

#13. Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist.

Amy Carmichael

#14. Something so hard can be so easy if you just have a little help. In the right place, under the right conditions, you can finally stretch out into what you're supposed to be.

Hope Jahren

#15. When knowledge is missing all other attributes have no grooves in which to rest.

Nelly Mazloum

#16. Unfortunately, beer was only a short-term answer. And head transplants had yet to be approved by the FDA.

J.R. Ward

#17. I'm not as hard on myself anymore. I'm comfortable exactly where I am, though it took me until I was 34 years old! I still have things I'm really insecure about, but I've changed by loving me - C-section scars, stretch marks, and all.

Jenny McCarthy

#18. The Ukrainians don't have the military means to stand up to Russia, but we haven't helped them militarily, either.

Wesley Clark

#19. Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy.

Peter Blair Henry

#20. Whenever I've been asked to be in a film, directors only want me to play myself ... I'm fascinated by the thought of being an actor, but it's too hard. And I think Shakespeare-which has been suggested to me-might be a bit of a stretch.

Tom Jones

#21. To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

#22. I don't think anything good is happening. I think we're paying the price for it. I think while crime in general is going down, youth crime is going up. I think mental health problems of the youth are going up. You can't show causality. It's a hard stretch.

Edward Zigler

#23. As an actor, I'm always so excited about those things that I get to stretch my legs and really get to do something that's hard to do.

David Lambert

#24. All rich countries now employ legions of functionaries whose primary function is to make poor people feel bad about themselves.

David Graeber

#25. Shall we keep our hands in our bosom, or stretch ourselves on our beds of laziness, while all the world about us is hard at work, in pursuing the designs of its creation?

Isaac Barrow

#26. The need for justice grows out of the conflict of human interests. That is to say, if there were no conflict of interests among mankind we should never have invented the word justice, nor conceived the idea for which it stands.

Thomas Nixon Carver

#27. Abandon the 'I', because it's a lie.

Grant Morrison

#28. Unless I can stretch and touch something hard, I shall be blown down the eternal corridors for ever. What then can I touch? What brick, what stone? and so draw myself across the enormous gulf into my body safely?

Virginia Woolf

#29. The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.

Joseph Campbell

#30. In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.

Paul Kingsnorth

#31. I find it hard to believe that so many people doubt the existence of God. I mean, seriously, I'm here, so is it such a stretch to imagine that another all-powerful being could exist somewhere in the universe?

Zach Braff

#32. We know that God disciplines His children, and that testing, suffering, and persecution come to us from Heaven to stretch, grow, and mature us into the men and women God intends to make us ... If we keep this in mind when hard times fall, it can be a real source of joy in the fire ...

Kirk Cameron

#33. It was hard to admit that those days were over, but it was hard to admit that any days were over, that the days themselves didn't stretch like pulled taffy and sag to the floor.

Amelia Gray

#34. He who lives for nothing costs the lives of many, but he who lives for something greater than himself preserves those he loves.

Christopher Hopper

#35. The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.

George Orwell