Lay Quotes

2047 Lay quotes by 1399 unique authors

Fear of being a flawed person lay at the root of my trance, and I had sacrificed many moments over the years in trying to… — Tara Brach
I brought Sammy inside and put him to bed. Said his prayer with him. “‘Now I lay me down to sleep…’” To me, just random… — Rick Yancey
He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to… — Erich Maria Remarque
The true liberation, the true path to freedom, lay in the ability to forgive. — Alyson Noel
I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear. Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out. — Neil Gaiman
I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that… — Khaled Hosseini
I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world. I'm just going to lay it down now. It's my time to die, and it's… — Sue Monk Kidd
I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways. — Neil Gaiman
As I lay on my back in bed staring up at the blank, white ceiling the stillness seemed to grow bigger and bigger until I… — Sylvia Plath
The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Being the only female in what was basically a boys’ club must have been difficult for her. Miraculously, she didn’t compensate by becoming hard or… — Donna Tartt
She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She… — Max Barry
If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi - do it with a sense of pride. And do it the… — Rod Serling
At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the… — Virginia Woolf
What was Aristotle’s life?’ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ And all the rest is pure… — Martin Heidegger
The wardrobe? It was so full of gowns that he didn't think he could cram himself inside. Besides, it would be awkward if the maid… — Jessica Day George
The snow drifted down and down, all in ghostly silence, and lay thick and unbroken on the ground. It was a place of whites and… — George R. R. Martin
This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality. — Neil Gaiman
But what struck me was the book-madness of the place--books lay scattered across the unmade bed and the top of a battered-looking desk, books stood… — Steven Millhauser
I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become… — Charles Bukowski
Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all over them for years. — Mae West
You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'em But you won't take the sting out these words before… — Eminem
You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake, say that you are not hurt!" It was worth a wound -- it was worth many wounds --… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work… — Nikola Tesla
Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find… — Jhumpa Lahiri

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