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«Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.»
Author: Alexander MacLaren
| Keywords:
canvas, dipping, dips, dip into, flings, representation, representations, shadows, somber, stretches, The Long Dark, tint, tinted, tints, true to
«The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature»
«The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.»
Author: Italo Calvino
(Essayist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
attraction, confines, dictionary, escape from, stirs, stretches, The Call, utmost
«Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best»
Author: Michael Johnson
(Athlete)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
punctuate, punctuated, sprinter, stretches
«Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone has bad stretches and real successes. Either way, you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get to confident.»
«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.»
«They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence.»
«To Him is due the true prayer; and those whom they pray to besides Allah give them no answer, but (they are) like one who stretches forth his two hands towards water that it may reach his mouth, but it will not reach it; and the prayer of the unbelie»
Author: quran
| About:
Prayer
| Keywords:
Allah, besides, give forth, hand to mouth, stretches, two-handed
«Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way in the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action.... into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
domestic, dreary, fragments, My Country, narrow mind, stream, stretches, tireless, widen, widened, widens, without fear
