Top 33 Stretched Too Thin Quotes
#1. Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.
Zach Wamp
#2. The capacity for loyalty is stretched too thin when it tries to attach itself to the hypothetical solidarity of the human race.
Christopher Lasch
#3. Balance how much you give of youself, including volunteer activities.You won't do anyone any good you are stretched too thin.
Monika Kristofferson
#4. There was too much to feel strongly about, she was stretched too thin, so she could not quite feel anything about anything.
Frances Hardinge
#5. This dish ain't just called Karate Meat because it's got an Asian kick to it. It's called Karate Meat because it will beat you up like a pigeon in prison.
Coolio
#6. Every flower blooms from the face of impossibility with a hope to make this world beautiful.
Debasish Mridha
#7. She wanted the city to be full of exclusive places turning people away, as long as they always accommodated her. It didn't work like that. What a stupid place to live - stretched thin, overbooked, sold out in advance.
Jennifer Egan
#8. I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#9. Civilization is but a thin veneer stretched across the passions of the human heart. And civilization doesn't just happen; we have to make it happen.
Bill Moyers
#10. Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.
Mark Twain
#11. The road lay long and black ahead of them and the heat was coming now through the thin soles of their shoes. There were young beans pushing up from the dry brown fields, tiny rows of green sprigs that stretched away in the distance.
Larry Brown
#12. Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head.
Bertrand Russell
#14. Lillian is humming to herself, stretched out on top of my bookcase like she doesn't mind the heat, and of course she doesn't. Even when she was alive, she could never seem to get warm. The tune she's humming is thin and tight with anxiety. It's the opposite of carefree.
Brenna Yovanoff
#16. Be honest, how hideous do I look?"
He took another step back and pursed his lips.
"That bad, huh?" I muttered.
No, no Bella. Actually ... " He seemed to be struggling for the right word. "You look ... sexy."
I laughed out loud. "Right."
Very sexy, really.
Stephenie Meyer
#17. When the whistle blew and the call stretched thin across the night, one had to believe that any journey could be sweet to the soul.
Charles Tennyson Turner
#18. It's so mental how I looked in the '90s. The fact that I thought my ponytail was a good thing - it was just terrible. Cutting it off was so monumental.
Andy Cohen
#19. I could not bring myself to hang up the phone or even so much as move it from my ear. The chance that I could hear his voice once again was too great a prospect.
Jasmine Dubroff
#20. He liked her not knowing. I could tell. He liked her not knowing. Her ignorance woke a pleasure that melted on his tongue, like a lick of toffee.
Alice Munro
#22. You should not be misled about the so-called single opposition candidate. There are so many of them now that you will lack the fingers to count them.
Alexander Lukashenko
#23. ... the miracle about steel is that you can hammer it so thin it's stretched to its limit, but that doesn't mean it will break.
Jodi Picoult
#24. His name meant "He Who Fasts for a Hundred Days," and in person he more than lived up to his name. He was so thin that he looked like skin stretched over bone. While Sister Aziza wore the hijab, Boqol Sawm wore a Saudi robe, a bit short, so that it showed his bony ankles.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#25. I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#26. The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#27. What did immortality do to one who was once mortal? It stretched him thin.
S. Jae-Jones
#28. The truth is, it is enough to live in this country. Just to live. Work isn't necessary for the salvation of the soul.
Willa Cather
#29. In a corner of the churchyard grew a plantation of white violets, enormously plump and prosperous-looking ... I saw the dead stretched out under me in the earth, feeding these flowers with a thin milk drawn from their bones.
Rosamond Lehmann
#30. I watched as she stretched over the board to flick off a fallen leaf. Underneath her thin cotton shell, I saw how fragile the bones in her back were, far too sliver-prone, far too light to support a pair of wings.
Connie May Fowler
#31. When she walked ... she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.
Sarah Orne Jewett
#32. My perception is that I'm a guy who really does a lot of homework surrounding any project that I do.
Nolan Bushnell
#33. The baby's body lay in a bassinet. He was the size of a half loaf of bread, his bones light as a bird's and stretched with thin skin.
Jodi Picoult
