Laid Quotes
1060 Laid quotes by 823 unique authors
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Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them through the labyrinth…
— Victor Hugo
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Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various…
— Unknown Author
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O my darling books! A day will come when you will be laid out on the salesroom table, and others will buy and possess you-persons,…
— Unknown Author
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Bid faith look through the key-hole of the promise, and tell thee what it sees there laid up for him that overcomes; bid it listen…
— William Gurnall
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There were a lot of running backs as good as me. The real difference was that I could focus. I never laid back and relied…
— Jim Brown
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What is the shape of space? Is it flat, or is it bent? Is it nicely laid out, or is it warped and shrunken? Is…
— Rudy Rucker
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When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder. A lot of…
— B. C. Forbes
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Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on…
— Henry Thomas Buckle
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Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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As I laid in the hospital bed I started thinking that I had a show to do. I was hoping the Doctor would put me…
— Ben Vereen
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Off the floor, I'm really laid back: like, nothing really fazes me too much. But on the floor, I do get emotional and a little…
— Dirk Nowitzki
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On this International Day of UN Peacekeepers, let us pay tribute to the men and women from countries across the world who serve selflessly, tirelessly…
— Kofi Annan
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We follow the rules laid out in the Bible for running our church.
— William Brewster
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The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
— Abraham Lincoln
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It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men.-In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius of discovery in…
— Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet
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And Boucard desisted, probably because like everyone else he was deeply impressed by this man who had laid all ghosts, who had lost all shadows,…
— Georges Simenon
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I am thinking particularly of a shower I took where the lower half of my body was under the running water and the upper half…
— Lena Dunham
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I separated the joints, the arm joints, the leg joints, and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of Soilex for…
— Jeffrey Dahmer
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The breakup of Bell laid the foundation for every important communications revolution since the 1980s onward. There was no way of knowing that thirty years…
— Tim Wu
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Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
— Edgar Lee Masters
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This killing of Israel athletes is an act of war. And if there's one place that war doesn't belong, it's here. 1200 years. From 776…
— Bill Bowerman
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Ways of loving from a distance, mating without even touching-Amor platonicus! The ladder of love one is expected to climb higher and higher, elating the…
— Elif Safak
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One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. and sooner…
— Abraham Kuyper
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