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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
We have to get a lot tougher. If you get involved in a street fight, you can't lay down in the street and act like… — Don Meyer
The cat of the slums and alleys, starved, outcast, harried, still keeps amid the prowlings of its adversity the bold, free, panther-tread with which it… — Hector Hugh Munro
Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible… — Jean Genet
See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly. — Homer
Christian, let God's distinguishing love to you be a motive to you to fear Him greatly. He has put His fear in your heart, and… — John Bunyan
It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment fruitless, but even… — Henri Poincare
To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably. — Vincent D'Onofrio
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train… — Lydia Sigourney
Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I played six to 10 hours a day, every day, 90 days during the summer, and I'd do incredible things. I would dribble blindfolded in… — Pete Maravich
Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and violets… — Richard Hovey
How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There… — John Milton
Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest. — Charles Caleb Colton
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. — Alexander Smith
It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before me ... At… — Werner Heisenberg

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