Lays Quotes - Page 11

• Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

  John Webster

  Friends, Breasts, Stills

  John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.84, Manchester University Press

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• In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

  H. G. Wells

  Play, Political, Cards

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• Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Evil, Good And Evil, Be Good

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.72

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• As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection.

  Ellen G. White

  Imperfection, Influence, Truth Of God

  Ellen G. White (2014). “Signs of the Times Articles - Book I of III”, p.967, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.

  Ellen G. White

  May, Restriction, Theory

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• Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord.

  Ellen G. White

  Coffee, Idols, Tea

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• The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, World, Littles

  "TheWorld Is Too Much with Us" l. 1 (1807)

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• Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

  William Wordsworth

  Power, Getting High, Waste

  "TheWorld Is Too Much with Us" l. 1 (1807)

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• I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to lay them down becomes the difficulty.

  Thom Yorke

  Mean, Simple, Thinking

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• When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My pen simply caught them and set the words on paper. I typed them up and turned them into a newspaper column of the 45 lessons life taught me. When I hit 50, I added five more lessons and the paper ran the column again.

  Regina Brett

  Life Lesson, Ideas, Soul

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• Her face lay still on the air under his face.

  Ayn Rand

  Air, Faces, Stills

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.189, Hamilton Books

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• No murmur arose from its bed, and so gently it wandered along, that the pearly pebbles upon which we loved to gaze, far down within its bosom, stirred not at all, but lay in a motionless content, each in its own old station, shining on gloriously forever.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Shining, Forever, Bed

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Tales and Poems”, p.126, Pan Macmillan

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• The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against one, you can feel the vibration from the wires deep within the wood, as if souls had been imprisoned in there and were struggling to get out.

  Stephen King

  Struggle, Hands, Soul

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• ...And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And they lynx which dwelleth forever in the tomb, came out therefrom. And lay down at the feet of the demon. And looked at him steadily in the face.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Moon, Color, Feet

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• A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Flower, Night, June

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Jane Eyre (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.286, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.

  Nelson Mandela

  Courage, Peace, Moving

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if it were organically part of them. That must be why we have so much trouble returning borrowed books. It's not exactly theft (of course not, we're not thieves, what are you implying?); it's simply a slippage in ownership or, better still, a transfer of substance. That which belonged to someone else becomes mine when I look at it. And if I like what I read, naturally I'll have difficulty giving it back.

  Daniel Pennac

  Children, Book, Fall

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• The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

  Oscar Wilde

  Shadow, Dawn, Rooms

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.66, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.

  Robert Frost

  Rain, Flower, Garden

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even the dust. I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too.

  Elizabeth I

  Leadership, Sports, Kings

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• These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

  Abigail Adams

  Hero, Heart, Character

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• Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

  Stephen King

  Philosophy, Lying, Faults

  Robin Furth, Stephen King (2006). “Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance”, p.478, Simon and Schuster

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• The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Sunset, Sky, Mountain

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• But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection; and then, haply without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Lying, Years, Creative

  Emily Bronte, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë (1851). “Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey: In Two Volumes”, p.19

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• But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Simple, Breathing, Cities

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.451, Simon and Schuster

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