Lay Quotes

2047 Lay quotes by 1399 unique authors

Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed...to secure good conditions for workers; so it is right that the… — Bernardino Ramazzini
Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded… — Immanuel Kant
You know what's the most terrifying thing about admitting that you're in love? You're just naked. You put yourself in harm's way and you lay… — Mary Doria Russell
Life that crawled, life that slunk and crept and never closed its eyes. Life that burrowed and scurried, and life so still it was indistinguishable… — Toni Morrison
It was daylight and I drove everyone home - I was driving a Mini with John and Cynthia and Pattie in it. I seem to… — George Harrison
The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion. — Abraham Lincoln
The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of… — William Shakespeare
If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven… — Thomas Jefferson
The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms. She is more… — John Burroughs
Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To… — Jean-Paul Sartre
I'm the exact same person I was before (cancer). I'm still shallow, I still love clothes, I still want to talk fashion, I still want… — Giuliana Rancic
[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours… — William Halsey
When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge, a surgeon's probe.… — Annie Dillard
Mathematics, in the common lay view, is a static discipline based on formulas...But outside the public view, mathematics continues to grow at a rapid rate...the… — Lynn Steen
Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well. — Andrew Jackson
No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come… — Martin Luther
But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees — C.S. Lewis
I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global… — Mikhail Gorbachev
Let us take advantage of the opportunities presented by climate action and lay the foundations for a more prosperous and secure future for all — Ban Ki-moon
I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict… — Mark Twain
The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses... — Lucy Larcom
Love should not be a guessing game. In fact, it shouldn't be a game at all. One should lay all the cards on the table,… — Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever… — William Shakespeare
Art thou in misery, brother? Then I pray Be comforted. Thy grief shall pass away. Art thou elated? Ah, be not too gay; Temper thy… — Paul Hamilton Hayne
Anyone who dares to lay hands on the highest image of the Lord commits sacrilege against the benevolent creator of this miracle and contributes to… — Adolf Hitler

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