We Lay Quotes
51 quotes by 43 authors
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Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our powers of identification…
— Roger Angell
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Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and violets…
— Richard Hovey
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We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the existence of a…
— E. H. Moore
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We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Nobody gets to say who we love, or who we lay down beside, or take as our husband, lover, life, or bride. Nobody gets to…
— Maria Doyle Kennedy
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For those searching for something more than just the norm. We lay it all down, including what others call sanity, for just a few moments…
— Laird Hamilton
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We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened to some of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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North American cats eat more fish than all the world's seals put together, yet we lay the blame on the seals for the declining fish…
— Paul Watson
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Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering,…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I didn't tell him I was a virgin, just that I hadn't done it 'that much.' It hurt a little more than I'd expected but…
— Lena Dunham
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The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is…
— William Wordsworth
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Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have been intrusted by…
— Calvin Coolidge
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In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts?something for conversation in winter evenings.
— Henry David Thoreau
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As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given to us to guide our own steps. We are like…
— George Eliot
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If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?
— Elie Wiesel
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There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Then come and as we lay, beside this sleepy glade, there I will sing to you my Longfellow serenade.
— Neil Diamond
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School is where children spend most of their time, and it is where we lay the foundation for healthy habits. That's why New Jersey is…
— Richard Codey
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We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told…
— Brian Andreas
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