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Quotes About Stretching

The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account, Return to the point of no return.
~ John Ashbery
I remembered when he'd explained the concept of infinity to me. Immeasurable, one moment stretching out to the next.
~ Jenny Han
But he could see the prisms in the deep dark water and the line stretching ahead and the strange undulation of the calm.
~ Ernest Hemingway
My hamstrings are permanently into a state of openness. I could probably fall out of bed into a split and not tear anything.
~ Katya Zamolodchikova
Ah, all these thoughts, all this peculiar yearning, this seeking, this stretching out of hands toward a meaning. Let it all dream, let it all sleep. I'll simply let it come. Let it come.
~ Robert Walser
balance cardio activity with weight training to scale your strength, and daily stretching to increase your mobility. You never want to allow an old stiff person into your body.
~ Robin S. Sharma
traction (stretching) is easier during exhalation, but lumbar traction (stretching) is eased by inhalation and retarded by exhalation.
~ Leon Chaitow
lumbar traction (stretching) is eased by inhalation and retarded by exhalation.
~ Leon Chaitow
An enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round eyes, and feebly stretching out one paw, trying to touch her. 'Poor little thing!' said Alice, in a coaxing tone, and she tried
~ Lewis Carroll
I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate, and that gives me the motivation to continue.
~ Donna Dixon
The invitation didn't say clothing optional," she said, running her sandaled feet up the back of his bare legs. Which matched the rest of him. She let out a little laugh as he tossed her gently on the bed. "That's because I wanted to peel your clothes off you," he said, following her down. "Well," she said, stretching her arms up over her head, "if you must.
~ Donna Kauffman
A beach walk is for stretching your legs and your mind, for looking at life with newfound eyes.
~ Sandy Gingras
Benedict understood clearly that the function of leadership is to call us beyond ourselves, to stretch us to our limits, to turn the clay into breathless beauty. But first, of course, we have to allow it to happen.
~ Joan D. Chittister
Startups, by their nature, are entrepreneurial - testing new things, launching new products, and disrupting themselves. That's why you join a startup in the first place - to create, to stretch beyond your current capabilities, and to make an outsized impact.
~ Jennifer Hyman
I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should.
~ Ian Mckellen
When I get ready for a high-profile event, it's really about sleep and making sure I'm eating something healthy, and then it's always important to stretch to stay limber. No matter what, you want to feel as loose as possible, because it's easy to get full of excitement or tension with all that's going on.
~ Darby Stanchfield
For me, comedy literally is way more terrifying than doing drama, so it's always about stretching what I think I can do and putting myself out there in different context.
~ Tatiana Maslany
Time had passed, it was hard to know how much time, because time was strange now, stretching, compressing, unreliable. A week could be a month long. A lifetime could pass in a day.
~ Salman Rushdie
Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
~ John C. Maxwell
Endurance is another matter altogether. Comfortable pace, regular dosage over a period of years and frequent runs stretching maybe twice as long as the average – these seem to be the keys to unlocking the almost limitless flow of endurance we're all capable of producing.
~ Joe Henderson
He smiled then, and that smile was like the sunset, stretching from one end of her existence to the other, lighting her way not by sight, but with a slow kindle inside she knew would never leave her bereft for the sun's warmth.
~ Joey Hill
Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.
~ Michael Heseltine
Belonging to the world of poetry,but fascinated by another world, she is always stretching out from her enchanted tree and snatching bits from the flux of daily life as they float past, and out of these bits she builds novels.
~ E M Forster
that a story is a way of stretching time.
~ Anthony Doerr