Lay Quotes

2047 Lay quotes by 1399 unique authors

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized. — Thomas Hardy
Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafés in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love is the wanting, and the having, and the choosing, and the becoming. Love is the desire to see the person we love be and… — Matthew Kelly
On the other hand, she was a women with a million happy memories, who knew what it was like to experience true love and who… — Cecelia Ahern
He lay face down, listening to the silence. He was perfectly alone. Nobody was watching. Nobody else was there. He was not perfectly sure that… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Go on, have a pasty," said Harry, who had never had anything to share before or, indeed, anyone to share it with. It was a… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was… — Arundhati Roy
What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls. I don't know," she said.… — Jack Kerouac
They had stared at her with great uncomprehending eyes. Eyes that questioned nothing and asked everything. Unblinking and unabashed, they stared up at her. The… — Toni Morrison
Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm; — Wystan Hugh Auden
Any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in demonology, then it… — Terry Pratchett
Pain! Deep, tearing, throbbing, needle-sharp, hammer-blunt pain – ripping through his body and through his mind, twisting deep in his guts and slicing at his… — Stuart Hill
Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing… — Jack London
They lay silently. She was staring at something across the room. She was making him feel uncomfortable. 'It wouldn't work. It's the attraction of opposites,'… — James Salter
If you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon to get them… — Orson Scott Card
I saw what I had been fighting for: It was for me, a scared child, who had run away a long time ago to what… — Amy Tan
Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit. — Amy Tan
Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of… — Salman Rushdie
lay down. lay down like an animal and wait. — Charles Bukowski
After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
When you love someone, truly love them, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash… — Bruce Lee
A sparrow lay dead on the backseat. She had found her way through a hole in the windscreen, tempted by some seat-sponge for her nest.… — Arundhati Roy
Think what a better world it would be if we all-the whole world-had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down… — Robert Fulghum
Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and… — Shan Sa

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