Lay Quotes

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How can you lay siege to a whole country? Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Basketball teams, after the perfunctory lay-up drill, fall into the crowded isolation and personal style of 10 city kids shooting at the same basket or… — Ted Solotaroff
And also those to whom these commandments were given, might have power to lay the foundation of this church, and to bring it forth out… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Whoa! I better lay off the peyote! — Marcus Thomas
I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on… — Victor Borge
We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses. — Pablo Neruda
Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well. But when you get in… — Andrew Jackson
What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they be denied such… — Hester Lynch Piozzi
If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions "to be observed," it is to be presumed that they will give the result of their… — Isambard Kingdom Brunel
We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the existence of a… — Unknown Author
I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of… — Raoul Dufy
The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him… — Willie Morris
The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are… — A. V. Dicey
We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of… — Antoine Lavoisier
For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today, at last, they… — Hans Cloos
We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial matter. While many… — Robert K. Merton
Stephen prayed for his persecutors, who had not been able even to listen to the Name of Christ, when he said of those very men… — Ambrose
I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing… — Edward Mills Purcell
...it is proper that the duty of helping the poor and unfortunate should especially stir Catholics, since they are members of the Mystical Body of… — Pope John XXIII
The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay… — Sun Tzu

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