Lays Quotes

Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold of what is worse. It takes hold of a failing and by very skillful manipulation and training turns it into a perfection.

The first guy who lays a finger on this blind old man is fined fifty bucks!

There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more fully than the spirit in which he bears his limitations.

The truth is I suppose that a tour lays in a great stock of thought and spirits for the future; the fatigue and drawbacks of actual travelling are forgotten and a bright residuum remains.

I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.'

Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.

She lay in the dark and knew everything.

I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead.

Don't fear whatever God lays before you today.

In therapy , the therapist acts as a container for what we daren't let out, because it is so scary, or what lets itself out every so often, and lays waste to our lives.

Anytime you want to lay off the paybacks God, that'd be great.

She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.

For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil.

Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.

Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.

I wish I could lay down beside her and die too.

When you lay down your life for what you are after you've died, you're clean.

His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed.

I never stopped loving the deeper sciences, and I read as deeply into lay science as I can.

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.

Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare.

Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.

A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.

Whoever prays for those who hurt him lays the demons low; but he who opposes his affronter is bound to the demons.

Certain pitches you throw, they lay off them like they knew it was coming.

The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.

Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope.

In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it.

Susie Lynn, the producer of those segments, goes in and lays all the voices over the video.

I went to the bedroom and lay on the floor, so as not to mess up the covers.

It's like sometimes, you can just lay back and it takes the pressure off of you.

Don't lay a finger on me eyebrows or I'll sue you f...

I have played a few lay saints in my time.

He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their life is done.

Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.

Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death. [Lat., Nec mihi mors gravis est posituro morte dolores.]

The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end.

The egg cackles and lays the chicken.

My wife is so fat that when she lays on the beach the people feel sorry for her and try to roll her back into the water.

There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

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

He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.

You cannot change the past but you can start now and lay the foundation for the future.

So, does this make you visibly challenged? (Nick) No, but if you don’t lay off me, I’m going to make you breathing impaired. (Acheron)

And you, Kibbles, had better lay off me. One more growl and I swear I’m going to geld you with a spoon. (Zarek)

A day lays low and lifts up again all human things.

God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors, on which he intends to draw the portraiture of some illustrious beauty.

All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.

Science herself consults her heart when she lays it down that the infinite ascertainment of fact and correction of false belief are the supreme goods for man.