Lay Quotes

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Humans can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet they're potentially more vicious than any other. They are the only ones who can… — Benjamin Spock
I lay my tasks down one by one; I sit in the silence of twilight grace. Out of the shadows, deep and dun, Steals, like… — Mary C. Ames
It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul, and… — Mahatma Gandhi
Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I… — A. C. Benson
People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end? — Elie Wiesel
In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life. — Marcus Aurelius
It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money… — Isaac D'Israeli
The weather behaved itself. In the spring, the little flowers came out obediently in the meads, and the dew sparkled, and the birds sang. In… — T.H. White
Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching… — Plato
There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it. — Thomas Carlyle
New York, which is founded on forward motion and thus loath to acknowledge its dead, merely causes them to walk, endlessly unsatisfied and unburied, to… — Luc Sante
The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death. — Michel de Montaigne
We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how… — Virginia Woolf
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only. — Mencius
Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on… — Lewis Carroll
In Christ and by Christ, God effects complete self-disclosure , although He shows Himself not to reason but to faith and love. Faith is an… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the Rye? The Heart is a… — Madonna Ciccone
There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone.… — Athol Fugard
Will you be slack, brethren, and let the evil come upon us, when we forewarn you of the future events that are coming;… We are… — Heber C. Kimball
Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's. — Seneca the Younger
War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party. — Tacitus
It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age. — Andre Gide
I haven't had that many women - only as many as I could lay my hands on. — Dudley Moore

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