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1060 Laid quotes by 823 unique authors

Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it. You cant draw… — John Berger
Wind and storm colored July. Also, in the middle, cadaverous, awful, lay the grey puddle in the courtyard, when holding an envelope in my hand,… — Virginia Woolf
He laid into me with the same gusto as a right-wing political pundit on the O'Reilly Factor defending President's Bush right to vacation six days… — Chelsea Handler
No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which… — Rainer Maria Rilke
From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for… — Jonathan Safran Foer
It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day. — Jorge Luis Borges
You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father… — W. Somerset Maugham
I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all.… — Kurt Cobain
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run — Herman Melville
For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on… — W. Somerset Maugham
Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought,… — Cynthia Heimel
If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid… — Quentin Crisp
The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among… — Wendell Berry
All that Ruby said was so horribly true, she was leaving everything she cared for. She had laid up her treasures on earth only. She… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the… — Margaret Atwood
Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless… — Jack London
In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God. — John Grisham
A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice,' Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's… — Nora Roberts
Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops, have a passing-out… — Terry Pratchett
How quickly the apparently solidly laid foundation of one's existence could crumble. — Patrick SÃ¼skind
Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they… — Utah Phillips
Speaking psycho-analytically, it may be laid down that any "great ideal" which people mention with awe is really an excuse for inflicting pain on their… — Bertrand Russell
Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him… — Khalil Gibran
The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms? Harry's… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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