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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

We let them get back in the game a little bit, but I think we grew up because we stretched the lead right back out.

Charles Thomas

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

Arthur Rimbaud

Valuations are getting stretched, especially in the technology sector. There may be some recovery in the economy, but the notion that it will translate into a big jump in corporate profits - the jury is still out on that.

Chuck Carlson

Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.

Antony Jay

They are already stretched too thin and we didn't want to be more of a burden.

Andy Hughes

We were overly ambitious . . . We just did too many things and they stretched our capacity to manage them.

Adrian Dix

The inventory of unsold homes has been building in the past four or five months - which is not surprising, as affordability has gotten stretched and stretched, and creative financing has grown more absurd.

Doug Kass

Those resources stocks were starting to look stretched after a really good year last year, so all it takes is a drop in commodities across the board for them to come off. Some stocks will benefit, though, particularly the manufacturers as their costs go down.

Lucinda Chan

A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never reurn to it's original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Annual wages growth is still accelerating. It is premature to talk of interest-rate cuts while such stretched capacity still exists.

Annette Beacher

I expected a close game, a very physical game. But I think we stretched them out there in the first quarter by hitting a lot of threes and then we started getting a lot of offensive rebounds, and I think it just kind of snowballed from there. We knew we could run some sets and I told them before the game, if the shots are dropping, let's run with it.

Matt Harr

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.

Robert Benchley

I think when we had all of our talent, stretched over the year, we are a force. We knew what we were facing this year.

Carrie Graf

That's the beauty of collaboration. You get pushed and stretched to go where you'd never go otherwise.

Licia Perea

We believe MDC has greater risk of earnings decline due to lower margins from its short land supply and exposure to markets where affordability is stretched.

Daniel Oppenheim

It was a game of momentum swings and runs, and they (Flandreau) had the final run when they needed it. They stretched the lead, and we had to put them at the foul line ... but their kids stepped up and made big plays in those situations.

Bill Vincent

The current IPv4 infrastructure is stretched. The larger address space [in IPv6] offers advantages and efficiencies. But we must have implementation methods that ensure smooth integration of IPv4 and IPv6.

Judy Estrin

Our logistics worked well generally, up until 2005. We couldn't imagine how something that big and complicated could happen. It took a process that worked OK and stretched it, and we got to see all the cracks.

Jack Mcguire

Silver was stretched out pretty good here.

Frank Lesh

The market has gone up but earnings have gone up with it, so the market still hasn't been stretched on a valuation basis.

Mark Bon

It's not a major feature of the transaction. We'll have to sort of regroup and think about it, but our balance sheet's not so stretched that we instantly have to sell things.

Jim Buckee

We shall endeavor to activate and deepen our partnership with our allies of the Progressive Socialist Party and Tayyar Al Mustaqbal. Our hand will remain always stretched out to all.

Samir Geagea

So John Wayne ... rolled in the saddle as his nag ran at a gallop in the snow toward the chest-high fence. The horse stretched, Duke rose, and the two cleared the fence with plenty of room.

Glen Campbell

Fabrics make a wonderful wall covering. Stretched and upholstered onto a wall.

Stephen Phillips

I already stretched it two weeks ago and now I just stretched it again. It's the inside ligament. It's pretty bad right now, so I'll have to see.

Ales Valenta

We knew that things were getting fairly stretched and there was exposure to potentially even small shocks, but that is not a small shock, ... it's an absolute, monstrous hurricane.

Paul Horsnell

We are stretched pretty thin.

Janice Smith

Good governance is essential for managing our increasingly stretched supplies of freshwater and indispensable for tackling poverty.

Koichiro Matsuura

We stunned a major drug-trafficking ring which stretched through Westchester, New York City and Connecticut.

David Hall

It stretched us pretty thin.

Larry Harrison

For the community to have a year-round tourism season, it needs to bring in business other than leisure travelers. If you wanted a longer or stretched season, you need those conference facilities. That's one way to do it.

Marq Lipton

I had a chance to put it away. With a tall guy jumping out, I tried to get it off quick. He was tall and he had his arm stretched out. I maybe could have pump-faked, but it was a spur-of-the- moment thing.

Anthony Drejaj

We want to be careful we're not stretched too thin, ... It's a daunting task helping ... local police.

Customs Enforcement

It has stretched resources and capacity to the limit.

Thomas Moran

It was fine til I went and stretched before my first at-bat. I have my little routine I do on deck since I was probably 7 years old, and this time for some reason I felt a pop.

Doug Mientkiewicz

The market looks a bit stretched from here. Shares have been going up on very superfluous reasons suggesting liquidity is really been pushing the market.

Lim Jit Soon

The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down.

Sean Stewart

We have enough physicians to take care of the community, but if you go to an emergency room or try to get an appointment, you will recognize that shortage very quickly. It's concerning if there is an outbreak of pandemic flu or (a) significant medical problem. The resources are already stretched to their limits.

Dale Bishop

If you're stretched to the max to be able to make the interest-only payments, the question is: What are you going to do when the principal comes due?

Doug Duncan

This fraud stretched from the biggest firms on Wall Street to a small day- trading shop. The common denominator was a willingness to steal confidential market information for use in illegal trading.

Linda Thomsen

The market's not that stretched on valuations, it's a bit frothy because of the takeover activity but at the end of the day companies are quite cheap.

Mark Bon

I think Foothills came out and stretched the field early. It looked like we were a quarter-step slow, and they took advantage of that.

Jon Pearlman

I stretched and tried to do whatever I could to get in there. It's always nice to have a good backup quarterback that can come in and make plays for you.

Marty Booker

I needed a 1:04.5 to qualify for districts and I got a 1:04.31. It was my best time ever in fly. My turns felt real good. Breast felt good but it was a little slow. My turns were good but my stroke felt too stretched out.

Sarah Miller

We were getting a little stretched. They could smell it, but they couldn't find it.

Ken Erickson

The demand is going to come later and be stretched over an extended period of time.

Jon Anderson

This is not the answer we were expecting from our declaration of a cease-fire. We stretched our hands in peace, and the response was horrifying.

Avi Pazner

I tweaked the shoulder a bit and kind of stretched the nerve. Doctors say the nerves don't respond well to that.

Bryce Salvador

We're stretched a bit thin.

John Robinson

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 Turner

We all pretty much thought we were going to die. After that it was pain for a few days, but again walking and trying to keep stretched out helped out.

Rachelle Quinton

Quick money is lifesaving money. The system is stretched.

Hansjoerg Strohmeyer

Under a blazing mid-afternoon summer sky, we see the Seine flooded with sunshine . . . people are strolling, others are sitting or stretched out lazily on the bluish grass.

Georges Seurat

We just did not feel comfortable with people being out there stretched out in single file where they could be subject to accidents and possibly expose themselves to provocation from outside groups.

Roberto Reveles

We ran a 2-3 zone and whichever side she was on, we stretched it to that side.

Mark Tiby

Then someone came from the front, so he jumped back into my arm, and it stretched back.

Lance Johnstone

We're still reluctant to buy into these stocks, even if they fall considerably. They might have turned the corner in the broadest sense, but the balance sheets are very stretched.

Christoph Bianchet

Too many institutions don't realize the scope of the problem until it's too late. The problem is, everything costs money and institutions are stretched so thin.

Mimi Bowling

Taxpayers who are already stretched to their limit by our highest-in-the-nation property taxes may be forced to pick up and leave the state. Businesses that have already rated this as one of the worst business climates in the nation will move operations elsewhere or forgo plans to expand.

Alex Decroce

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Even though we stretched, we made the plays when we had to. Everybody contributed. Both sides of the ball stepped up when they had to.

Dan Mcdavid

Valuations remain a little stretched, and we could see some further weakness into the early part of the year.

Adam Adelman

The economy is going to be hit hard by Katrina, and it is going to be hardest on consumers who are already stretched thin. With the surge in gasoline and home heating oil prices, consumers will have a difficult choice to make between filling their gas tank or spending on other things.

Mark Zandi

Every time that I stretched him out a little further than his comfort zone you could see a little more of a limp. He's a little tentative right now, but so far so good.

Brian Butterfield

First responders are really needed even more. (Katrina) depleted the National Guard; the Red Cross is really stretched. We're the eyes and ears for the first 72-96 hours to help out the community.

Brandon Lewis

We're not broken. But we were definitely being stretched; and if we'd had to sustain [such] high levels for another year or so, we'd have reached a broken state.

Roger Lempke

I'd say they could go two years on reserves without getting to the point where the state comes and says to do something. Perhaps it could be stretched to a third year.

Rodger Hannel

When you couple the higher bills that people with adjustable loans saw with the higher-than-expected energy costs, you see a lot of homeowners stretched beyond the point where they could make their payments.

Rick Sharga

We didn't stretch him out too far. Every time I stretched him out a little bit further than his comfort zone, you could see there was a little bit of a limp. ... We're still a ways away, just because of the nature of the position where you stop and start so much.

Brian Butterfield

We've had quite strong earnings, but that is starting to be reflected in the price. Multiples currently are getting high and things are looking a bit stretched.

Daniel Birch

The rubber band was stretched tight and this thing was set up like a slingshot. It doesn't surprise me it snapped back. It surprises me it went down in a straight line for so long.

Jeff Saut

Our military is being stretched too thin, to the point of being broken for the foreseeable future. We are asking too much and not giving enough, and we are certainly not any safer than before September 11.

Steve Brozak

It looks like they may have stretched some on the top side in Pittsburgh.

Gary Bongiovanni

In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out infriendship, never in want.

Old Irish Toast

Our resources are stretched to the limit, and in some cases, beyond the limits.

Chris Paulitz

It has taken us longer to get set up in St. Tammany Parish because our manpower is stretched so thin.

Mark Heimann

Our resources stretched beyond past -- not over yet. Winds pick up today and another red flag warning today. We just gotta have some substantial rain to stop this.

Danny Alexander

If there isn't an element of absurdity in a session, you haven't stretched your client enough.

Lisa Parker

One of the things that is really unique about Neal is that, although he stretched out so fast and even though he didn't have some of the strength he has now, he maintained his skill level. That's really rare. Typically, when kids grow that fast, the phone rings and they fall, and that didn't happen with Neal.

Bill Whitehead

My mother flew out to see us on April 9. She had never flown before, and that snowstorm stretched from the Midwest to the East Coast. Her trip from Omaha was filled with delays, rough flights and circling airports for hours. She swore she would never fly again.

Annette Brown

The problem is that the stocks have run so much this year that valuations are stretched. To sustain these valuations, we need a strong first half of 2004, and that's an open question.

John Rutledge

Medicaid protects impoverished children, the frail elderly and people in crisis, ... Its limited resources will be further stretched serving hurricane victims. Proponents of Medicaid cuts either undervalue Medicaid assistance or underestimate American compassion.

Sherrod Brown

The United States lost more men from battle wounds and disease in the Civil War than in any other war of its history, including the Second World War. The battle front stretched from Pennsylvania to New Mexico, and included also the seven seas.

Richard Weaver

We haven't really stretched him yet. We scored some runs in the fifth inning, and I wanted to get some of our other guys a chance to throw.

Dennis Braun

You can think of this structure as a giant, magnetic Slinky wrapped around a long, finger-like interstellar cloud. The magnetic field lines are like stretched rubber bands the tension squeezes the cloud into its filamentary shape.

Timothy Robishaw

Most people see this as a long-term challenge. The short-term money is needed because we have some services that are stretched, but we need a long-term approach.

Dr. David Nabarro

Forget the interpretations of recession. We're still talking about a relatively stretched economy. There is no justification for the Reserve Bank to abandon the firm interest- rate outlook.

Craig Ebert

The main reason we couldn't get any breathing room was because we couldn't get a defensive rebound. We could have stretched the 12-point lead.

Toby Bickel

We understand that the IT manager is stretched, especially in medium-sized businesses. At the same time, they are in a unique position to determine whether a company is following the law or not.

Anne Kelley

[Even the] beige book ... labor markets remain stretched and some districts indicated increasing wage pressures.

William Sullivan

The science is being stretched.

Adam Drewnowski

Our American forebears included Cotton Mather and Oliver Wolcott, who signed the Declaration of Independence, and we were told that a strong wire of character stretched from them through all generations of our family.

Sister Parish

It's like childbirth. It's uncomfortable, painful, sometimes bloody, but you're always being stretched.

Dr. Howard Tullman

It's a system that has been significantly stretched.

Rep. Scott Raecker

It was awesome. The line for autographs stretched all the way through the Sports Academy and wrapped around it.

Jim Rew

He caught a pass in stride, stretched out, and put it up off the glass at full speed. He sold his body out for the team. That kind of typified the quarter for us.

Keith Hunter

That was a game that we were going to have to play extremely well the entire game to win, and we played fairly well for three quarters. Part of the fourth quarter was fatigue. Too few were doing too much. We just made mistakes. We were stretched very thin.

Mike Hidde

I may not be where I was last year, but I'm where I need to be. That's a good sign, but it's not about being able to do that once. Last year, I was able to do it for three, four innings. I just haven't been able to get stretched out yet.

C.j. Wilson

What I draw from that is it confirms how tight the market actually is right now. To us, the big picture is we are in a situation globally and here in the U.S. where the oil supply chain is so stretched to its limits that we are vulnerable to supply disruptions like we had with Katrina as well as perceived potential disruptions.

Doug Macintyre

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David Braun

The establishment is desperate to keep together the communion. But the liberals are unwilling to revisit or invalidate the movements that the conservatives find intolerable. This tolerance has been stretched to the breaking point.

George Curry

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I'd say we're doing very well, all things considered, ... Clearly, there is more money available out there, when even sectors that are fairly stretched, like tech and banks, are doing well today.

Joseph Battipaglia

They made shots. It is just that simple. We couldn't stop them. We didn't put enough pressure on the ball, even though we stretched out the defense. We let guys get off, and we dug ourselves a hole early in the first half.

John Chaney

While the quarter was a solid one and forward guidance positive, we believe that valuation is stretched.

Heath Terry

They love to run. We really made them work in the half-court set. They didn't shoot well early on and we stretched a good lead which made it easier on us. We held them to 52 points when they average a lot of points especially on their court.

Les Poore

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.

Saskya Pandita

Sandwich stretched the ice on us. By the time we made the adjustment they had scored twice.

George Demello

The supply side is stretched from an industry perspective. It's a little reminiscent of the squeeze we had 25 years ago.

David J. O'reilly

We have really heavily invested our staff in delivering Flumist in the school system and we were going to be stretched kind of thin to be delivering inactivated vaccine at exactly the same time.

Stephanie Hall

It is true that refining capacity is stretched. It is true that there is a refining bottleneck and it is true the demand increase has been stronger than expected.

Claude Mandil

Troops, both regulars and reserves, are already over-stretched. Cutting the number of boots on the ground, ships or aircraft, are not sensible options.

Bruce George

I think FEMA is stretched, but the response is good at this point. This storm did something very unpredictable by turning. It was an unprecedented deal here.

Todd Hunter

We have to do extensive and time consuming repairs to each one of those 300 phones. We are conducting those repairs and getting out there and doing that, but because there's such a high number of phones that have been damaged, our resources have been stretched.

Shawn Hall

At this moment, we are the most stretched.

Carol Hughes

Clearly, the number of dollars required in Medicaid, very stretched already, will increase. It would be amazingly callous, and to me, unconscionable if they insist on these Medicaid cuts.

Sherrod Brown

The NPA is very understaffed and many of their posts are vacant. And that is a problem because we would hate to see their resources stretched. If the government intends on pursuing this policy then obviously resources must be made available, extra staff recruited and an extra budget be allocated for this purpose.

Sheila Camerer

That second one we had a hand right in his face. They stretched the lead to six or seven and then we were taking bad shots. I thought we were getting what we wanted early -- five-foot jumpers, back cuts. But once the lead got away, we started to take bad shots.

Norm Persin

I've turned it more than once and it's pretty stretched out. All it needed was a quick tweak and it was OK.

Theresa Lisch

You might find people are more productive when they're at work if they don't go in feeling so hassled and stretched out for time.

Nancy Kaylor

We continue to believe valuation is stretched at current levels, but with numbers moving up we expect the stock to follow in the near-term.

Joseph Altobello

We're very busy — we serve thousands of children and families here a year. Our services are incredibly stretched because there is a growing population.

Rob Gershon

The figures are a notch better, but valuation is stretched. Therefore, we still prefer other private banks.

Julius Baer

A quintessence scalar field is like a field of springs covering every point in space, with each spring stretched to a different length, ... For Einstein's cosmological constant, each spring would be the same length and motionless.

Eric Linder

Though I don't question your ability, I do question your ability to be everywhere all the time. How thin can you be stretched?

Eric Everson

We started to bring our four and our five players out to be distributors instead of keeping them on the inside because (Ridgefield) stretched their zone so well and we were really having trouble with the passing angles.

Ed Huydic

He?s had one of those years where he had some high spots and some low spots. There was talk of starting (Pedro) Liriano, but with his health issues (a stomach ailment that cost him nearly a month of action) he isn?t stretched out enough. It?s good that the game falls on Gavin?s day to pitch.

Ed Wade

I think our bullpen is one of the better bullpens in the nation. Instead of just having guys in the bullpen, we actually have an idea of what innings we're going to throw, so we can prepare better and get stretched out.

Zechry Zinicola

Repair and assessment operations are going on as we speak and the hurricane season is just around the corner now. Resources are already stretched to the limit.

Eugene Kim

With this kind of hiccup in refinery capacity, in stretched markets like California, you could see over $4 a gallon in gas.

Evan Smith