Lay Quotes

2047 Lay quotes by 1399 unique authors

You lay your hand against his skin and just rib his back. Blow into his ear. Press that baby up against your own skin and… — Joyce Maynard
Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage… — Charles Caleb Colton
The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay… — Dwight L. Moody
I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface — Philip Roth
Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat. — Arthur Golden
Then, brothers, it came. Oh, bliss, bliss and heaven. I lay all nagoy to the ceiling, my gulliver on my rookers on the pillow, glazzies… — Anthony Burgess
I'd address his way of trying to discourage Ian later. After all, he could have come up with something other than saying I was a… — Jeaniene Frost
Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or… — Jonathan Swift
Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung,… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
If I'd known how wrong I was - if I'd had any idea of the awful night that lay ahead - I'd have run after… — Darren Shan
Underneath me, Sam Grest - who'd been my friend and saved my life - lay perfectly still and slipped further and further into the final… — Darren Shan
And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril… — C.S. Lewis
I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all… — Samuel Beckett
I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world… — Holly Lisle
She did not believe that things could remain the same in different places, and since the portion of her life that lay behind her had… — Gustave Flaubert
...in any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white, black, or blue,… — W. E. B. Du Bois
I knew that danger lay ahead, of course; but I did not expect to meet it in our own Shire. Can't a hobbit walk from… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The queen is head. Long live the queen...me." The platoon of renegade soldiers cheered. Redd kicked The Cat where he lay on the floor, tongue… — Frank Beddor
You know what the issue is? Do you want to know? It's what these guys have decided to call America. They have the audacity to… — Barbara Kingsolver
Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that… — E. M. Forster
The leaves had fallen from the trees and lay crisp and crackling beneath his feet. Picking one up he marveled, not for the first time,… — Louise Penny
Everyday he got up. Before sleep wore off, he was who he used to be. Then, as his consciousness woke, it was as if poison… — Alice Sebold
It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there,… — Robert Louis Stevenson
It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God,… — John Calvin

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