Lay Quotes

2047 Lay quotes by 1399 unique authors

The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the dark lake burned… — Mervyn Peake
I believe the structure of 'House of Leaves' is far more difficult to explain than it is to read. And while I'd like to lay… — Mark Z. Danielewski
Perhaps the seeds of redemption lay not just in perseverance, hard work, and rugged individualism. Perhaps they lay in something more fundamental—the simple notion of… — Daniel James Brown
The Rock is going to lay the smacketh down on your candy ass! — Dwayne Johnson
There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead. — Leo Tolstoy
A truly good book attracts very little favor to itself. It is so true that it teaches me better than to read it. I must… — Henry David Thoreau
Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long as they may… — Henry David Thoreau
We're telling small-business owners that not only are we going to raise their costs by a buck and a quarter, but we're also going to… — Chris Christie
In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts?something for conversation in winter evenings. — Henry David Thoreau
And again it snowed, and again the sun came out. In the mornings on the way to the station Franklin counted the new snowmen that… — Steven Millhauser
Your identity, self-esteem, and awareness of your ego lay the groundwork for your life. How you conduct yourself with others, and whether you have the… — Caroline Myss
Writing is like listening to a melody line in my head. Note by note, it knows where it wants to go. I follow it and… — Julia Cameron
When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will mature when they… — Mordecai Richler
What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible, and I could… — Osamu Dazai
Actually, the decision was not only expedient but necessary. The severity of this summary justice showed the world that we would continue to fight mercilessly,… — Leon Trotsky
Pray silently with simplicity every day to stay cool and calm in mind, composed and collected in heart; courageous and connected to own soul, to… — Unknown Author
A carpet of despair which lay underneath the levels of fury. — Lionel
President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event he confidently felt… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It was that quality that led me into aviation in the first place — it was a love of the air and sky and flying,… — Charles Lindbergh
The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently done before; And her… — Charles Stuart Calverley
I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll… — Gabrielle
A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far more than merely… — Russell Page
As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given to us to guide our own steps. We are like… — George Eliot
It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale, delicate shadow rises… — Robert Musil
She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went… — E. M. Forster

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