Lay Quotes

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As my body lay dead on that stretcher (he later recovered from being struck by lightning attracted by his cell phone), I was reliving every… — Dannion Brinkley
Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our powers of identification… — Roger Angell
I do not plan in any way to whitewash my sin. I do not call it a mistake, a mendacity; I call it sin. I… — Jimmy Swaggart
Cautious of the flood so I always lay the right pipe. — Drake
As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Instantly, the noise stopped. The whole room lay in perfect silence. The tire builders stood in long lines, touching each other, perfectly motionless, deafened by… — Ruth McKenney
A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on. — Joe E. Lewis
Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul… — Helen Keller
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we… — Charles Caleb Colton
Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives. — Blaise Pascal
It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The great and amorous sky curved over the earth, and lay upon her as a pure lover. The rain, the humid flux descending from heaven… — Aeschylus
I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey, gin and vermouth-whatever… — John Cheever
Can anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained within ten simple digits, lay… — Alan Coren
It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery… — Robertson Davies
I think we're making progress. We understand where the power of this country lay. It lies in the hearts and souls of Americans. It must… — George W. Bush
You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men… — Khalil Gibran
You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed; lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals;… — Anne Sexton
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys. — William Blake
In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time's continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly in the absolute… — Diane Ackerman

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