Lying Down Quotes

• My moral standing is lying down.

  Trent Reznor

  Lying, Moral, Standing

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• I just want to give you this one piece of advice: if you're standing and you could be sitting, sit. If you're sitting and you could be lying down, lie down.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Lying, Giving, Advice

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• I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all

  Jack Kerouac

  Lying, Sides, Remember

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.61, Penguin

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• You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Wind, Trying

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I love being outside with trees and water, lying down somewhere or walking. I do transcendental meditation, which keeps me calm and steady.

  Naomi Watts

  Lying, Love Is, Water

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• I remember lying down for a nap one day at about 4:00 and walking up at 11:00 the next morning.

  April Winchell

  Morning, Lying, Naps

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• I don't take criticism lying down.

  William Westmoreland

  Military, Lying, Criticism

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• Look, Here are we, On this starry night staring into space, And I must say, I feel as small as dust, Lying down here...

  Dave Matthews

  Lying, Night, Space

  "Song: Pig (Before These Crowded Streets)". April 28, 1998.

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• Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up.

  Sharon Olds

  Lying, Writing, Self

  "Get Over an Ex: Advice for After the Breakup" by Sharon Olds, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.

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• Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Death, Lying

  Without Feathers "The Early Essays" (1975)

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• Don't surrender to the dying light; don't take it lying down.

  Christopher Cross

  Lying, Light, Dying

  "Interview With Christopher Cross Upon Release Of New Album 'Doctor Faith'". CBS-FM Interview, kearth101.cbslocal.com. June 28, 2011.

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• According to Beckett's or Kafka's law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Lying, Law, Sitting Down

  Gilles Deleuze (2005). “Francis Bacon”, p.29, A&C Black

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• I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.

  Truman Capote

  Lying, Writing, Thinking

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.28, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Lying, Down And, Opinion

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 73, 1799.

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• This soft grass suggests 'softness' to me, but also at the same time 'lying-down-ness'.

  Louise Rennison

  Lying, Grass, Softness

  Louise Rennison (2014). “The Misadventures of Tallulah Casey 3-Book Collection: Withering Tights, A Midsummer Tights Dream and A Taming of the Tights”, p.42, HarperCollins UK

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• I couldn't resist him, his eyes were like yours, his hair was exactly the shade of brown. He's just not as tall, but I couldn't tell, it was dark and I was lying down.

  Amy Winehouse

  Lying, Eye, Dark

  Song: I Heard Love Is Blind Teo Licks, Album: Frank, 2003

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• Just as I lay back, she sat up. I sat up, and she flopped back down. Awkward. That was my every move when it came to her. Now we were both lying down, staring up at the blue sky.

  Kami Garcia

  Lying, Moving, Blue

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• A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

  Robert Benchley

  Dog, Perseverance, Lying

  Robert Benchley (1976). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, Amereon Limited

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• Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it.

  J. D. Salinger

  Lying, Sunshine, Special

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry. I do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.

  Aisha Tyler

  Lying, Winning, Phones

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• This alpha dog is not going to take it lying down next time.

  Janice Dickinson

  Dog, Lying, Next

  "Tyra Banks' model catfight; Kevin Costner engaged; Kelly Osbourne's bar room brawl". www.sfgate.com. June 26, 2003.

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• Upon the shoulders of you mothers rests; in a great measure, the responsibility of correctly developing the mental and moral powers of the rising generation...I have often said it is the mother who forms the mind of the child. Take men anywhere, at sea, sinking with their ship, dying in battle, lying down in death almost under any circumstances, and the last thing they think if, the last word they say is "mother." Such is the influence of woman.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Mother, Children, Lying

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• Look,
  Here are we
  On this starry night staring into space.
  And I must say
  I feel as small as dust
  Lying down here.
  What point could there be troubling?
  Head down wondering what will
  Become of me,
  Why concern we cannot see
  But no reason to abandon it.
  Time is short but that's all right,
  Maybe I'll go in the middle of the night.
  Take your hands from your eyes, my love,
  Everything must end some time,
  Don't burn the day away.

  Dave Matthews

  Time, Lying, Eye

  "Song: 'Pig'". 1998.

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• We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others. We should conquer ourselves, rather than conquer others. Whether coming or going, standing, sitting or lying down, our mind should be focused in this way. If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.

  Ajahn Chah

  Lying, Practice, Mind

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• Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that the mind is empty is to see the buddha.... Using the mind to reality is delusion. Not using the mind to look for reality is awareness. Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

  Bodhidharma

  Lying, Reality, Thinking

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.49, Macmillan

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