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But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, with his martial cloak around him.
Charles Wolfe

Him, Around, Warrior

With 'Django Unchained,' when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.
Jamie Foxx

Movie, Gymnastics, Routine

It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.
Bobby Darin

Best, Off, Excuses

In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.
Tom Vilsack

Education, Great, Crisis

The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.
Ice T

Best, Put, Listen

We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
Bernard Baruch

Time, Down, Until

Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul.
Stella Blum

Hate, Person, Feelings

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
Vincent D'Onofrio

True, Able, Skin

It eats you up. It eats you up. And you have to - I had a lot of help. I had a lot of therapy. And I was able to - because it was hard, you know, to - you can't just lay it on friends and children.
Lynn Redgrave

Children, Help, Hard

This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated.
Paul Watzlawick

Person, Him, Secret

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.
George Osborne

Leadership, Morning, Experience

Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.
Sydney Smith

Done, Together, Heads

I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start.
Dale Evans

Blessings, Said, Start

By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.
Jay-Z

Time, Words, Song

When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.
Lorna Luft

Chance, Public, Rest

What is the big political issue for Britain at the moment? Without wishing to sound portentous, it is about whether we can build a social democratic settlement, whether we can lay the political and cultural foundations for the next several years.
David Miliband

Political, Moment, Big

It's one thing to have a relationship, to lay your hands on it, and another to make it continue and last. That's something I haven't talked about much in my comic strips, and it's certainly something I'm interested in.
Lynda Barry

Another, Last, Interested

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
Alexander Smith

Difficult, Ghost, Injury

Because we are continually growing in the Lord, preachers and lay people alike must be open to the Lord's correction.
Benny Hinn

Lord, Growing, Open

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
Mary Astell

Education, Ignorance, Foundation

In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.
Mary Schmich

Yourself, Before, Fabulous

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
Henry Fielding

Wedding, Against, Second

I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.
Nancy Reagan

Life, Good, Political

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

Car, Down, Last

In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.
John Millington Synge

Pain, Universe, Cry

We promise you that we will not cede a single part of Palestine, we will not cede Jerusalem, we will continue to fight and we will not lay down our arms.
Ismail Haniyeh

Fight, Single, Down

With 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter,' we as a group of writers had to take a rather thin novel and spread it out over the course of 12 episodes, and not only 12 episodes, but lay in story for everyone that's going to take you through five years.
Melissa Rosenberg

Through, Everyone, Rather

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!
William Pitt

Down, Country, American

I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head.
Jeremy Irons

School, Live, Done

I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence.
King Hussein I

Life, Successful, Help

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