#sand

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins. ↗

— Lord Byron

#hour #lay #may #ruins #scare

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living. ↗

— James Cameron

#bicycles #brooding #civil #civil servants #cost

He was a god above her, powerful, beautiful, larger than life. The light brought out the latent gold of his hair. The shadows contoured the perfect form of his body. Light and shadows converged in his eyes, bright lust, dark anger, and something else. Something else entirely. She recognized it because she’d seen it in the mirror so many times: a bleak, austere loneliness. ↗

— Sherry Thomas

#sherry-thomas #vere #anger

When you listen to Christian radio stations - and there are thousands of them now in the United States - and when you listen to Christian television networks - and there are thousands of Christian television shows across the country - they are all politically right. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#christian #country #listen #networks #now

Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs. ↗

— Thomas Carper

#barely #basic #basic needs #bills #dollars

Before this country came on the scene, for thousands of years people did things the same way. Within 200 years of the advent of this nation, men were walking on the moon, and I want us to recognize this is the kind of people that we are. We're creative with a lot of ingenuity and a lot of energy. ↗

— Benjamin Carson

#before #came #country #creative #did

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#i #inch #killed #like #ought

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#becomes #fail #hitters #i #superior

I don't think that they have many of the scientists who were involved in the weapons program to talk to at this time, and there were thousands of people, engineers and scientists, they know where the weapons are. ↗

— Ahmed Chalabi

#i #involved #know #many #people

There's been a lot of coming home in the early mornings after funny nights out, having bizarre sandwiches in bed. ↗

— Neneh Cherry

#bed #been #bizarre #coming #coming home