Lay Quotes

2047 Lay quotes by 1399 unique authors

How many Sundays – how many hundreds of Sundays like this – lay ahead of me? “Quiet, peaceful and lonely,” I said aloud to myself.… — Haruki Murakami
You are safe," he said firmly. "You have my name and my family, my clan, and if necessary, the protection of my body as well.… — Diana Gabaldon
Diogenes carried a bowl with him for years, but one day saw a man drinking from his cupped palm and declared, ‘I have been a… — Christopher Moore
I can't forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen," I said. "I'm a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person. If I hold… — E. Lockhart
Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You can't untie a boat that… — Osip Mandelstam
I pulled in a soft breath. My lungs were starving, crying out for air. I lay still, and a cough tickled at the back of… — Lilith Saintcrow
Emma was no asleep, she was pretending to be asleep; and, while he was dozing off at her side, she lay awake, dreaming other dreams. — Gustave Flaubert
A weak faith can lay hold on a strong Christ. — Thomas Watson
Am I horny enough to hump a bedpost?" Mica asked. "Not quite yet. Should I consult with you first, Doctor?" Sarcasm lay thick and heavy… — Lora Leigh
Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of… — Mordecai Richler
There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a… — Kenneth Grahame
I have stood aside to see the phantoms of those days go by me. They are gone, and I resume the journey of my story.’… — John Irving
If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a… — William Shakespeare
Deep in the meadow, hidden far away A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray Forget your woes and let your troubles lay — Suzanne Collins
You're from where?" "Lay'en. It's near Salt Lake City." "Spell that for me." "Um, that would be S-A-L-T-" "No, the other one. The city you're… — Shannon Hale
But [Pooh] couldn't sleep. The more he tried to sleep the more he couldn't. He tried counting Sheep, which is sometimes a good way of… — A A Milne
Someone wake me when it's over When the evening silence softens golden Just lay me on bed of dover Oh, I need help with this… — Gayle Forman
His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed; — John Keats
She lay down and never stirred. To move hand or foot, or even so much as one finger, would have been an exertion beyond the… — Elizabeth Gaskell
We do not look for reason for logic in the passionate entreaties of those who are sick unto death; we are stung with the recollection… — Elizabeth Gaskell
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or… — Alan Bennett
The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world. — Thomas Ligotti
There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there, the stars, like… — Donald Miller
I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be. — Patrick deWitt
And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first. — D. H. Lawrence

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