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A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley

Successful, Him, Others

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David Thoreau

Good, Book, Down

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
Barbara Jordan

Down, Whole, Three

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Lao Tzu

Wise, Others, Treasures

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?
Charlie Sheen

Time, Children, Stupidity

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau

God, Men, Cannot

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
George Washington

Soldier, Citizen, Aside

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Her, She

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Saint Augustine

Humility, Wish, Plan

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
Henry David Thoreau

Service, Often, Books

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
Robert Frost

Him, Hands, Among

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nature, Women, Men

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
George Orwell

Give, Enough, Cannot

Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today.
Mitt Romney

War, Government, Today

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.
Morgan Freeman

Moving, Someone, Down

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
Denis Waitley

Before, Keep, Spite

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Lie, Down, Victory

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.
Clint Eastwood

Fun, Enjoy, Aging

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Human, Lie, Down

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton

Great, Truth, Before

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nature, Human, Made

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Carl Jung

Moment, Place, Wine

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.
Ambrose Bierce

Future, Foundation, Apologize

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
Emma Goldman

Love, Stress, Give

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.
Lee Iacocca

Good, Start, Rules

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Francis Bacon

Him, Times, Question

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.
Benjamin Disraeli

Everyone, Likes, Flattery

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 ours.
William Wordsworth

Nature, Getting, Late

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
John Adams

Simple, Everything, Here

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope

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