Lay Quotes

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
William E. Gladstone

Freedom, Experience, Sympathy

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
William Howard Taft

Nature, Strong, Human

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
Texas Guinan

Life, Down, Country

I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.
Billy Corgan

Blame, Give, Team

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
Thomas Hobbes

Life, Him, Down

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.
David Ogilvy

I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue.
William Tyndale

Truth, Mother, Eyes

But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness of His Son, expecting life through His name, according to the promise of the Father.
Donald Cargill

Life, Father, Through

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
Miguel de Cervantes

Time, Death, Sure

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.
Abbey Lincoln

Paint, Therapist, Brushes

I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name.
Anne Lamott

Mother, Husband, Someone

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
Laurence Sterne

Religion, Themselves, Companion

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
E. V. Lucas

Dreams, Left, Hand

Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.
Sachin Tendulkar

Heart, Cricket, Before

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
Samuel Richardson

Women, Themselves, Seem

I've still got a brilliant head of hair, which refuses to lay down!
Rod Stewart

Down, Hair, Head

Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful - isn't even a city, really - unless it can lay claim to being 'vibrant.'
Thomas Frank

Successful, Simple, Working

No one ever expects a great lay to pay all the bills.
Jean Harlow

Great, Pay, Bills

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Best, Fear, Anger

You have two pages, that's the whole credit card agreement. The terms are clear and flat and easy to see so anyone can read them. So you could lay four credit cards in front of you and say, 'Oh, that's the one that has the highest rate, that's the one that has the really scary provision that could hurt me.'
Elizabeth Warren

Hurt, Two, Whole

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
Alexander Smith

Life, Today, Tomorrow

You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going to smoke and I'm not going to drink.' And I said I'm not going to just say that when I'm a kid. I'm going to stick to that as an adult. I kept that in mind my whole life.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Life, Mind, Young

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
Thomas Hobbes

Peace, Men, Down

I will lay my bones by the Ganges that India might know there is one who cares.
Alexander Duff

Might, India, Cares

Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.
Daisaku Ikeda

Knowledge, Country, Energy

I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!
Gabrielle Union

Love, Work, Outside

Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.
Kent Nerburn

Yourself, Children, Remember

The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here.
Jeremy Rifkin

Political, Here, Idea

You always want to feel better but I'm good. My thing is once you get to the playoffs, you do whatever it takes. You've got to lay it on the line.
Brian Jordan

Good, Whatever, Once

Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it.
Karen Armstrong

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