Lay Quotes - page 8

That is a true sentiment which makes us feel that we do not love our country less, but more, because we have laid up in our minds the knowledge of other lands and other institutions and other races, and have had enkindled afresh within us the instinct of a common humanity, and of the universal beneficence of the Creator. (Arthur Penrhyn Stanley)
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character. View quote
Herbert Hoover
I'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender. Where the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender. And believe in whatever may lie in those things that money can buy, though true love could have been a contender. View quote
Jackson Browne
No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward a time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient than those of our Revolutionary ancestors. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
...organizations like the church or General Motors promote a man up and up until he reaches a spot which he is obviously incapable of filling, and there they lay him to rest. View quote
James A. Michener
There is no cheating in nature and the simple unsought feelings of the soul. There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning. View quote
George MacDonald
But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists. View quote
Colin Wilson
The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay plans against you. View quote
Sun Tzu
Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things. View quote
Francis Bacon
Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones. (Francis Bacon)
For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any books however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is something written are scarcely able to make out two consecutive words, but, when aided by glasses, begin to read distinctly, so Scripture, gathering together the impressions of Deity, which, till then, lay confused in our minds, dissipates the darkness, and shows us the true God clearly. View quote
John Calvin
Terrorism benefits the Arabs, it may lay waste the Yishuv and shake Zionism. But to follow in the Arabs' footsteps and ape their deeds is to be blind to the gulf between us. Our aims and theirs run counter: methods calculated to further theirs, are ruinous to us. View quote
David Ben-Gurion
Because we are continually growing in the Lord, preachers and lay people alike must be open to the Lord's correction. View quote
Benny Hinn
At night, when he lay down to sleep, he felt that his brain was resonating with the heartbeat of the planet. View quote
John Brunner
So let us sleep outside tonight, Lay down in our mother's arms, for here we can rest safely. View quote
Dave Matthews
If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they will have at the sight of each other will be one of complete disappointment at life as a whole; because their thoughts will be carried back to that earlier time when life seemed so fair as it lay spread out before them in the rosy light of dawn, promised so much - and then performed so little. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Your mind is your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don't let an egg get laid in it by something you can't see. View quote
Bob Dylan
Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and Finery upon this small Speck of Dirt. View quote
Christiaan Huygens
We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of matter exists both before and after the experiment; the quality and quantity of the elements remain precisely the same; and nothing takes place beyond changes and modifications in the combination of these elements. Upon this principle the whole art of performing chemical experiments depends: We must always suppose an exact equality between the elements of the body examined and those of the products of its analysis. View quote
Antoine Lavoisier
Under bare Ben Bulben's head In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid. (William Butler Yeats)
In the clearing stands a boxer And a fighter by his trade And he carries the reminders Of ev'ry glove that laid him down Or cut him till he cried out In his anger and his shame "I am leaving, I am leaving." View quote
Paul Simon
Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes. View quote
Virginia Woolf
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys. View quote
William Blake
When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, "I 'll lay my life," said he, "somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living." View quote
Plutarch