Lay Quotes

2047 Lay quotes by 1399 unique authors

THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding… — William Butler Yeats
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the… — Amy Carmichael
These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on… — Ian Mcewan
Not like this vision before us, who was shaking water out of his slightly overlong reddish-brown hair as he leaned over to lay down his… — Meg Cabot
How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there… — Herman Melville
What a wonderful sleep it had been! Never had sleep so refreshed him, so renewed him, so rejuvenated him! Perhaps he had really died, perhaps… — Hermann Hesse
I don't know how long I kept at it... I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quite still. It didn't seem… — Sylvia Plath
When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door.… — C.S. Lewis
The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he… — John Owen
But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud. — Sarah Dessen
Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a… — Charlotte Bronte
Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today. — Elton John
But you must stop playing among his ghosts -- it's stupid and dangerous and completely pointless. He's trying to lay them to rest here, not… — Patricia A. McKillip
His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they… — Margaret Mitchell
…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives. — Homer
He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the… — Cormac McCarthy
That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed… — Siri Hustvedt
he(Quinn)put his hand out to his friend. “I’ll lay my life down for you.With or Without that piece of paper — J R Ward
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers. — James A. Baldwin
Anytime you want to lay off the paybacks God, that'd be great. — Jeaniene Frost
They stared out their window at night enough to know where the darkest shadows lay, and it was to the darkest shadows they kept. — Trenton Lee Stewart
Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were… — Charles Dickens
Suppose I lay down on the pavement and you run over me a few times with my own car...just for old times. — Janet Evanovich
I believe the defining moment was when certain persons, who shall remain nameless, objected to my fuchsia silk striped waistcoat. I loved that waistcoat. I… — Gail Carriger
Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin,… — Dorothy L. Sayers

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