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

  Barry White

  Expression, Next, Ecstasy

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

  Claude Chabrol

  Track, Giving, Obvious

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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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• 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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• They benefit from all these people, "I just don't like the fighting. Could you stop the shouting? All I want to do is just get along." They're easily able to bulldoze large groups of people into laying down and letting it happen in the hope that this will be peace, in the hope that there will be no confrontations, in the hope that the shouting will stop.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Fighting, People, Groups

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• A general flat minimum-wage law for all industry is permissible, but I do not think that it is a particularly wise method of achieving the end. I know much better methods of providing a minimum for everybody. But once you turn from laying down a general minimum for all industry to decreeing particular and different minimum for different industries, then, of course, you make the price mechanism inoperative, because it is no longer the price mechanism which will guide people between industries and trades.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Wise, Thinking, Law

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• Nothing with God can be accidental.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1912). “The complete poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.1679, Library of Alexandria

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• Thus we seem to be on the verge of an expansion of welfare economics into something like a social science of ethics and politics: what was intended to be a mere porch to ethics is either the whole house or nothing at all. In so laying down its life welfare economics may be able to contribute some of its insights and analytical methods to a much broader evaluative analysis of the whole social process.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  House, Expansion, Analysis

  "Economic Analysis". Book by Kenneth E.boulding, p. 34, 1941.

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• The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.

  Asa Gray

  Animal, Ordinary, Definitions

  Asa Gray (1880). “Natural Science and Religion”

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• As for the South, it is enough to say that perhaps eighty per cent. of her armies were neither slave-holders, nor had the remotest interest in the institution. No other proof, however, is needed than the undeniable fact that at any period of the war from its beginning to near its close the South could have saved slavery by simply laying down its arms and returning to the Union.

  John Brown Gordon

  War, Army, Slavery

  John Brown Gordon (1904). “Reminiscences of the Civil War”

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• I agree that dreams seem to be involved in laying down memories but I realise that dreaming gives us access to a part of our brain we do not normally have access to.

  Amy Hardie

  Dream, Memories, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I just want to keep laying down really great, strong characters, and the more I go unrecognized, the better job I feel I'm doing.

  Scoot McNairy

  Strong, Jobs, Character

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• To lay down one's life for the truth.

  Juvenal

  Scripture, Bible Verse, Love One Another

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• I sleep - laying down, not on the ceiling. Nothing about my life is crazy. I fly a lot, I travel a lot. I eat and sleep like everyone else.

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy

  Crazy, Sleep, Ceilings

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