Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl. — Saadi Copy Share Image
The day must come when the nation's whole scale of living must be reduced. If that day comes,Parliament must lay the burden… — Lord Randolph Churchill Copy Share Image
The Great Tao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right, all things depend on it to exist, and it does… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
As my body lay dead on that stretcher (he later recovered from being struck by lightning attracted by his cell phone), I… — Dannion Brinkley Copy Share Image
Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its… — A. V. Dicey Copy Share Image
...If I continued to harbour any hope for music it lay in the expectation that a musician might come who was sufficiently… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal against a sky… — James Carlos Blake Copy Share Image
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The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Zen Master Dogen has pointed out that anxiety, when accepted, is the driving force to enlightenment in that it lays bare the… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
That’s my credo - My work is play. I don’t complain about work. I enjoy it. I like the feeling of being… — Buck Brannaman Copy Share Image
It is the system itself that, that is incapable of producing freedom for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans. Just like a chicken can't… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man. — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
The absolutist lays down the law, but the relativist hears only roaring and bawling. Or, when the relativist voice, as it is… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
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It is time to lay to rest the notion that germs jump into people and cause diseases. — E. Cheraskin Copy Share Image
Her hair that lay along her back Was yellow like ripe corn. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
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