Lay Quotes

2047 Lay quotes by 1399 unique authors

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did… — Chris Crutcher
As the surface of the seashore rocks were pitted by by the waves and gathered limpets that further disguised what lay beneath, so time made… — William Trevor
The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Not many people can lay claim to having broken Time, and we did it purely by accident. — James A. Owen
But later that day, the streets of Kweilin were strewn with newspapers reporting great Kuomintang victories, and on top of these papers, like fresh fish… — Amy Tan
I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be… — Knut Hamsun
My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say while some fields will blossom and others… — Kent Nerburn
I wept in my dreams. I dreamed you lay in the grave; I awoke, and the tears still poured down my cheeks. I wept in… — Heinrich Heine
Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took… — Steven Wright
The earth was warm under me, and warm as I crumbled it through my fingers...I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did… — Willa Cather
Deep in the meadow, hidden far away A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray Forget your woes and let your troubles lay And when it's… — Suzanne Collins
Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my soul, suckle my… — Henry Miller
While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance… — Plutarch
Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically,… — Willard Van Orman Quine
This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Was his life nothing? Had he nothing to show, no work? He did not count his work, anyone could have done it. What had he… — D. H. Lawrence
People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the… — Nicholas Sparks
Peering down into the water where the morning sun fashioned wheels of light, coronets fanwise in which lay trapped each twig, each grain of sediment,… — Cormac McCarthy
Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel… — Francis Spufford
The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her… — Yasunari Kawabata
I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence,… — James Madison
If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat… — Blaise Pascal
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
I lay there, stretched out, looking at the one star visible through the tiny window of the room. Only connect. How can you do that… — Jeanette Winterson

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