Laying Down Quotes - Page 2

• Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Rebel, Needs

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.59, HarperCollins UK

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• She looks up at me with those vulnerable eyes. “What if it means something?” She asks. “What if it does?” “Promise me it won’t mean anything.” I lean my head back on the couch. “It won’t mean anythin’.” Aren’t I supposed to be the guy in this scenario, laying down the no-commitment rules? “And no tongue,” she adds. “Mi vida, if I kiss you, I guarantee there’s gonna be tongue.

  Simone Elkeles

  Mean, Commitment, Eye

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• It is complete nihilism to propose laying down arms in a world where atom bombs are around. It is very simple: there is no way of achieving peace other than with weapons.

  Karl Popper

  Simple, Nihilism, Atoms

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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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• ...the world feels so big when you're out in the wide open. It's like you don't have a place in it when you don't have a home." "Your place is right here," I whispered, laying down and hugging her close.

  Gayle Forman

  Home, Hug, World

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• The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by laying down, of life out of death is what the Bible teaches, and the people who have believed it enough to live it out in simple, humble, day-by-day practice are people who have found the gain, the joy, the getting, the fulfillment, the life.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Humble, Loss, Simple

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• Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking them.

  Khalil Gibran

  Law, Delight, Masters

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.

  Virginia Woolf

  Vision, Lighthouse, Brushes

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1130, Delphi Classics

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• Yet it seems to me finishing well in this life is not so much about who is the best or greatest at something, but rather who embraces lowliness of heart. Laying down one's rights- meekness- is a blessed virtue, one that must surely come straight from the Throne of Grace.

  Beverly Lewis

  Blessed, Heart, Rights

  Beverly Lewis (2016). “The Abram's Daughters Collection: Five Novels in One”, p.589, Baker Books

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• There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater. But sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. That is the sort of bravery I must have now.

  Veronica Roth

  Courage, Giving Up, Pain

  "Allegiant". Book by Veronica Roth, 2013.

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• The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Art, Philosophy, Reflection

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1962). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.19, Psychology Press

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• A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

  Texas Guinan

  Funny, Life, Country

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 'But surely "blind" is just how you would describe men who have no true knowledge of reality, and no clear standard in their mind to refer to, as a painter refers to his model, and which they can study closely before they start laying down rules about what is fair or right or good where they are needed, or maintaining, as Guardians, any rules that already exist.'
  'Yes, blind is just about what they are'

  Plato

  Reality, Men, Words Of Wisdom

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• Add the hippie-rock-drugs atmosphere circa 1970, and you get Clinton's rechristened group Parliament, decked out in weird costumes, singing cosmic lyrics and laying down amazing funk lines - also lines of other kinds. One observer describes Maggot Brain ... one of those guys with super technique that took a lot of acid and just went out from there.

  Eddie Griffin

  Hippie, Rocks, Guy

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• On the eve of my laying down office, with the inauguration of the Republic, I should like to tender my greetings and best wishes to the men and women of India who will henceforth be a citizen of a republic. I feel deeply thankful for the affection showered on me by all sections of the people, which alone enabled me to hear the burden of an office to the duties and conventions of which I had been an utter stranger.

  C. Rajagopalachari

  Men, People, Best Wishes

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• I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.

  Daisy Fuentes

  Workout, Signing, Can Do

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The desert is cold early in the morning. Laying down on that sand is like laying on a block of ice.

  Steven Michael Quezada

  Morning, Block, Ice

  "'Breaking Bad's' Gomez on 'Ozymandias': At Least 'I Didn't Get Melted in Acid' (Q&A)". Interview with Aaron Couch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 16, 2013.

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• Many philosophers in the second half of the 20th century really seemed to think that they were laying the foundations for science by laying down the conceptual (necessary) truths.

  Patricia Churchland

  Thinking, Foundation, Half

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• I think it's quite painfully obvious when someone's practicing through an amp, as opposed to someone who's really laying down some stuff that just happens to be fast.

  Joe

  Thinking, Stuff, Obvious

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

  Juvenal

  Scripture, Bible Verse, Love One Another

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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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