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1060 Laid quotes by 823 unique authors

The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing. — Aristotle
We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it. — Chogyam Trungpa
The fire first has to be laid before the match can be put to it. — Patricia K Page
The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which… — Morris Graves
Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the… — Yann Martel
When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them. — William Osler
He spoke, and loos'd our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth. — Matthew Arnold
Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every… — John Hancock
That we suffer so much today under whatsoever flag we live is proof positive that constitutions and laws, when framed by the early advocates of… — Marcus Garvey
We make a lot of fun at President Clinton's expense. But this transition is going to be tough because it's been 25 years since this… — David Letterman
Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his… — Bayard Taylor
We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as… — Mark Hopkins
No sin is committed merely because a thought enters the mind, provided it is not made welcome. Perhaps we may use the figure that the… — Norman Vincent Peale
Sometimes when I look back on myself on those earlier records, there was so much effort going in, so much trying. With this, I was… — Kate Bush
Honesty is not the same as truth. That is the obstacle of the notion of relative truths. I would like to put my trust in… — Criss Jami
Travel is the realm of the impossible adventures, the quick fix, the ship passing in the night. It entitles you to meet interesting people, whom… — Lawrence Millman
It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits… — Nikolai Berdyaev
I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is… — Jean de la Bruyere
There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations. — Jean de la Bruyere
A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she… — Honore de Balzac
But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it. — John Kenneth Galbraith
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave--thank God for the quiet grave--O! I can feel the cold earth upon me--the daisies growing over… — John Keats
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life… — Margaret Fuller
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. — Mahatma Gandhi

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