The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Now I lay me down to sleep Knowing that your lenses peep Now I eat my daily bread And into the tape… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
Our ability to respond positively to setbacks, fuels our creativity and lays the foundation for future successes. — Stacy Allison Copy Share Image
There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast. — Simonides of Ceos Copy Share Image
Dear youths, I warn you cherish peace divine, And in your hearts lay deep these words of mine. — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite. — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
I do believe that the future of civilization belongs to those who would lay emphasis on working together instead of talking about… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
Almost any normal oyster never knows from one year to the next whether he is he or she, and may start at… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While… — Bernie Taupin Copy Share Image
To prosper soundly in business, you must satisfy not only your customers, but you must lay yourself out to satisfy also the… — Harry Bassett Copy Share Image
There was a willow hanging over the mill-pool and I learned to climb it. It belonged to a butcher on the Stratford… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
In Christ and by Christ, God effects complete self-disclosure , although He shows Himself not to reason but to faith and love.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The great passion in a man's life may not be for women or men or wealth or toys or fame, or even… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,'… — Ramez Naam Copy Share Image
Many people have the impression that there is significant scientific disagreement about global climate change. It's time to lay that misapprehension to… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
Instantly, the noise stopped. The whole room lay in perfect silence. The tire builders stood in long lines, touching each other, perfectly… — Ruth McKenney Copy Share Image
One of the promising indications of a renewal in the Church's missionary consciousness in recent decades, has been the growing desire of… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
To the Jews, Rome constituted the quintessence of all that was odious and should be swept away from off the face of… — Joseph Kastein Copy Share Image
I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life... more particularly have I resented the sneers… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Suttree surfaced from these fevered deeps to hear a maudlin voice chant latin by his bedside, what medieval ghost come to usurp… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You can't untie… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
We are all the time, from our childhood, trying to lay the blame upon something outside ourselves. We are always standing up… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people… — Stella Blum Copy Share Image
[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I have always tried to teach my players to be fighters. When I say that, I don't mean put up your dukes… — Bear Bryant Copy Share Image