Lay Quotes

2047 Lay quotes by 1399 unique authors

And you, Kibbles, had better lay off me. One more growl and I swear I’m going to geld you with a spoon. (Zarek) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
This life is filled with threats and danger, David. We face those that we have to face, and there will be times when we must… — John Connolly
Twice Flush had done his utmost to kill his enemy; twice he had failed. And why had he failed, he asked himself? Because he loved… — Virginia Woolf
This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that… — Robert Louis Stevenson
All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all… — Swami Vivekananda
Well, you have now, Sam, dear Sam,’ said Frodo, and he lay back in Sam’s gentle arms, closing his eyes, like a child at rest… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I can’t undo the past. But in the future, I will gladly lay my life down for you, brother. (Styxx) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among… — Thomas Hardy
There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay… — Barbara Mertz
Love isn't a burst o' trumpets and a flock o' doves descendin' out o' the heavens to roost on yer heads. Tis sharin' a cup… — Teresa Medeiros
I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is I am dying… — Henry Miller
That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably… — Gail Carson Levine
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
He got out of bed and peeped through the blinds. To the east and opposite to him gardens and an apple-orchard lay, and there in… — Walter de La Mare
I don’t know, I don’t feel right unless I’ve got the sea and mountains nearby. People are mostly a product of where they were born… — Haruki Murakami
Now its raining its pouring the old man is snoring now I lay me down to sleep I hear the sirens in the street all… — Tom Waits
Alice! A childish story take, And with a gentile hand Lay it where Childhood dreams are twined In memory's mystic band, Like pilgrim's withered wreath… — Lewis Carroll
Hickory dickory dock my daddy’s nuts from shell shock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and burned out his eyes. A… — Dalton Trumbo
It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs… — Mark Twain
It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs… — Terry Pratchett
Where is Wilkins, anyway?" Cameron asked. "In the living room, being accosted by eighteen women who think he's a stripper. I thought it was best… — Julie James
If you have ever slept in a covered casserole dish on the highest peak of a mountain range, then you know that it is an… — Daniel Handler
I'm not going to lay down in words the lure of this place. Every great writer in the land, from Faulkner to Twain to Rice… — Chris Rose
That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty — David Guterson

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