Gigantic second and third growth trees are found in the redwoods, forming magnificent temple-like circles around charred ruins more than a thousand years old.
Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.
Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.
It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.
There is more than one kind of death? (Kat) Yes. Cowards aren’t the only ones who die a thousand deaths. Sometimes heroes do, too. (Sin)
Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions.
Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
He moved toward her and cupped her face in his hands. "You are so beautiful that sometimes it hurts just to look at you. Your eyes are a thousand shades of brown and gold with hints of blue and green. " He touched her cheekbones with thumbs. "Your freckles are like the girl-next-door fantasy brought to life. Your mouth is sexy and soft and when you smile, the world seems like a better place. Swear you'll never change anything. Swear it.
You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.
A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.
Even if you rise up a thousand times, your side will never achieve victory. ~Ulquiorra
Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.
I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings
Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.
In Sri Lanka a well-told lie is worth a thousand facts.
I think that walking down the middle of the street with several thousand people who share your deepest beliefs is one of the best ways to take a walk.
Bush senior used to say that we have more will than wallet. So he urged the country to attack poverty with a thousand points of light, none of which could be eaten.
I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction.
