They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other.
Joseph Howe

They tend to lay dormant for a while but often come back, and then the cheques come in!
Thayer David

They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.
Barry Pepper

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

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

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

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

To-morrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
Aulus Persius Flaccus

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
Andrew Young

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.
James Broughton

We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
Tara Strong

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

We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop.
Grandmaster Flash

We can know nothing till after this grave debate. The soul must withdraw, for this is not its hour. Now the knife must divide the flesh, and lay the ravage bare, and do its work completely.
Georges Duhamel

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

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

We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.
Matthew Simpson

We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
Olive Schreiner

Well, PT Anderson sent me a script of Boogie Nights which I let lay around my house for about three months, then one day I'm cleaning my office and decided that I'd better read this before the guy calls me back. I never put it down, bro.
Luis Guzman

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