Lay Quotes

2047 Lay quotes by 1399 unique authors

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. — William Howard Taft
Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After… — Sachin Tendulkar
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I… — Henry David Thoreau
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. — Henry David Thoreau
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its… — Henry David Thoreau
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside. — Henry David Thoreau
I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in… — William Tyndale
In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked… — Tom Vilsack
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen. — George Washington
This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda,… — Paul Watzlawick
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best. — John Webster
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. — H.G. Wells
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil. — Benjamin Whichcote
As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection. — Ellen G. White
Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord. — Ellen G. White
The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is… — William Wordsworth
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. — William Wordsworth
I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to… — Thom Yorke
When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My… — Regina Brett
her face lay still on the air under his face... — Ayn Rand
No murmur arose from its bed, and so gently it wandered along, that the pearly pebbles upon which we loved to gaze, far down within… — Edgar Allan Poe
The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against… — Stephen King
...And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And they lynx which dwelleth forever in the… — Edgar Allan Poe
A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses;… — Charlotte Bronte
And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat… — Elizabeth I

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