Best Lays Lines
246 Lays quotes by 212 unique authors
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Science herself consults her heart when she lays it down that the infinite ascertainment of fact and correction of false belief are the supreme goods…
— William James
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A female salmon lays three thousand eggs a year - and has yet to receive a Mother's Day card from one of them.
— Joan Rivers
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We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can…
— Mary E. DeMuth
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He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their…
— Pierre Corneille
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He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may…
— Walter Benjamin
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You see, without hard work and responsibility, there is no American Dream. Hard work lays the foundation. Our solidarity makes work pay - for all…
— Richard Trumka
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My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were…
— Bernie Taupin
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If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.
— George C. Wallace
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... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained, we…
— Michel Foucault
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The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.
— George M. Humphrey
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The real mistake humans have committed lays in the inability to differentiate between requirements and luxuries.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I…
— Bruce Springsteen
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A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do.
— Michael Chiklis
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The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible.
— Peter Greenaway
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Self must be denied as to time and attention for prayer. All-prayer cannot be wielded without the expenditure of time. "A minute with God" seldom…
— Walter J Chantry
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We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the…
— Pope Francis
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Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken.
— Wallace Stevens
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All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.
— William Cowper
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He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to…
— Francis Quarles
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Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, always turns up something. Luck lies in bed and…
— Richard Cobden
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The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman. The…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. ... As soon as it lays…
— Robert Musil
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