Laying Down Quotes

• I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

  Isambard Kingdom Brunel

  Science, Errors, Engineering

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• Good discipline is more than just punishing or laying down the law. It is liking children and letting them see that they are liked. It is caring enough about them to provide good, clear rules for their protection.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Children, Caring, Law

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• Or certainly I would need time - which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film - to just spend a week with a roomful of guys laying down these patterns.

  Danny Elfman

  Guy, Needs, Patterns

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• It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.

  Anthony Doerr

  Teaching, Reading, Writing

  "Off the Page: Anthony Doerr". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 14, 2004.

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• It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• It's ecstasy when you're laying down next to me.

  Barry White

  Expression, Next, Ecstasy

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• Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is "beware". This is not a wine for drinking; this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.

  Eric Idle

  Drinking, Wine, Bottles

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• That's how love got lost ... when we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Lost, Should

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• Some people never get their feet on the ground, They're either sitting in a chair or theyre laying down.

  Phil Ochs

  Feet, People, Endurance

  Song: Fifty Mile Hike

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• Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying down your arms, surrendering, saying you are sorry, realizing that you have been on the wrong track and getting ready to start life over again from the ground floor-that is the only way out of a "hole." This process of surrender-this movement full speed astern-is repentance.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sorry, Men, Track

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• A Godly leader ... finds strength by realizing his weakness
  finds authority by being under authority
  finds direction by laying down his plans
  finds vision by seeing the needs of others
  finds credibility by being an example
  finds loyalty by expressing compassion
  finds honor by being faithful
  finds greatness by being a servant

  Roy Lessin

  Loyalty, Godly, Compassion

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• There is no greater love than that a man lays down his life for his neighbor. When you hear someone complaining and you struggle with yourself and do not answer him back with complaints; when you are hurt and bear it patiently, not looking for revenge; then you are laying down your life for your neighbor.

  Poemen

  Christian, Hurt, Revenge

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• Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

  Claude Chabrol

  Track, Giving, Obvious

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• Christ was born in a manger, laying down amongst donkeys ang goats. He was given gifts of incense and perfume. No kidding.

  Dana Gould

  Goats, Incense, Christ

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• The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held. On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily laying down.

  Woody Allen

  Depressing, Afterlife, Done

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• I believe that the federal government should be laying down broadband like Eisenhower laid down interstates.

  John Hodgman

  Believe, Government, Should

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• I want to see young people who as committed to the cause of Jesus Christ as their young people are to the cause of Islam. I want to see them as radically laying down their lives for the Gospel as they are over in Pakistan and Israel and Palestine and all those different places, you know, because we have... excuse me, but we have the truth!

  Becky Fischer

  Jesus, Israel, People

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• At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fundamentals, Firsts, Facts

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.190

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• Top Democrats laying down their markers for how they'll work with President [Donald] Trump, but who will take on the job of rebuilding the Democratic Party after Tuesday's crushing defeat put Republicans in control of the White House and congress.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Crush, Jobs, Party

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Hurt, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1971). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.

  Brené Brown

  Differences, Addiction, Anxiety

  "The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are". Book by Brené Brown, August 27, 2010.

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• I have to decide whether I'm just laying down a groove, kind of a bed and canvas for the lyrics and music to live on, or trying to illustrate something in the lyrics.

  Glenn Kotche

  Trying, Bed, Kind

  Interview with Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. June 5, 2006.

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• Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.

  Tim Hetherington

  Mean, Sacrifice, Brotherhood

  "Transcript: ABC News' Martha Raddatz Interviews Tim Hetherington". Interview with Martha Raddatz, abcnews.go.com. September 14, 2010.

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• We are simultaneously the most hated, loved, feared and admired nation on this planet. In short, we are Frank Sinatra.

  Dennis Miller

  Bones, Punk, Planets

  "Dennis Miller: The Raw Feed". www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his pen, those who sat round him intreated and implored; and self-love did not suffer him to suspect that they went away and laughed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Moving, Self, Suffering

  Samuel Johnson (1800). “Lives”, p.531

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