lay Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about lay.
“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
“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
“The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.”
- Colette
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13, KJV)”
- Bible
“My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.”
- Derek Jeter
“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
“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
“Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime.”
- Michael Ramsey
“In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”
- Pope, Alexander
“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