Lays Quotes

• Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

  Karl Marx

  Money, Eggs, Golden

  "Capital, Volume I". Book by Karl Marx, Vol. I, Ch. 4, pp. 171 - 172, 1867.

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• Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

  Adam Smith

  Happiness, Happy, Pulse

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• Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.

  Dennis Banks

  Destiny, Path, Spirituality

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• ...and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible.

  Mark Haddon

  Stars, Garden, Sky

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• The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

  Irving Babbitt

  Sympathy, Stress, Humanitarian

  Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”

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• This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Memories, Doe, Emotion

  "Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype". Book by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 1992.

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• Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Hands, Eggs, Directors

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

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• Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

  Audre Lorde

  Life, Dream, Skeletons

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.38, Crossing Press

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• What makes Iago evil? Some people ask. I never ask.

  Joan Didion

  People, Evil, Asks

  Joan Didion (2011). “Play it as it Lays”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• Life that crawled, life that slunk and crept and never closed its eyes. Life that burrowed and scurried, and life so still it was indistinguishable from the ivy stems on which it lay. Birth, life, and death - each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

  Toni Morrison

  Inspirational Life, Eye, Birth Life And Death

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• Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken.

  Wallace Stevens

  Passion, Acceptance, Broken

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.331, Vintage

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• And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives. Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings; For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free hearted earth for mother, and God for father.

  Khalil Gibran

  Mother, Gratitude, Father

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

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• When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.

  Epictetus

  Principles, Faults, Blame

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• The lion will lay down with the lamb...but every morning they'll have to provide a new lamb. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

  Aldous Huxley

  Morning, World, Lambs

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• The age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice.

  Charles Darwin

  Age, Noble, Cowardice

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• God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.

  William Penn

  Trying, Littles, Poverty

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them.

  John Calvin

  Numbers, Mankind, Ought

  John Calvin “Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good.

  Merle Haggard

  Weed, Waiting, Chance

  "A Q&A With Merle Haggard". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. March 24, 2005.

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• If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Rain, Storm, Different

  "Andy Goldsworthy goes into the wild". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 26, 2015.

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• Part of what we're trying to do is lay out what really happened. For example, I've been trying to get across that the intelligence leadership did not just keep the country in the dark. They actively misled the country on key issues. When you have someone who heads the NSA saying we don't hold data at all on US citizens, that's one of the most misleading statements I believe that's ever been made about surveillance policy. And I think that now we're starting to get that message across.

  Ron Wyden

  Country, Believe, Dark

  "Stopping the 'Ever-Expanding Surveillance State'". Interview with Aj Vicens, www.motherjones.com. July 31, 2013.

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• In my study I can lay my hand on the Bible in the pitch dark. All truly inspired ideas come from God. The powers from which all truly great composers like Mozart, Schubert, Bach and Beethoven drew their inspirations is the same power that enabled Jesus to do his miracles.

  Johannes Brahms

  Jesus, Inspiration, Dark

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• Explaining is a difficult art. You can explain something so that your reader understands the words; and you can explain something so that the reader feels it in the marrow of his bones. To do the latter, it sometimes isn't enough to lay the evidence before the reader in a dispassionate way. You have to become an advocate and use the tricks of the advocate's trade.

  Richard Dawkins

  Art, Use, Way

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.7, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Nine planets round the sun, only one does the sun embrace. Upon this watered one, so much we take for granted; So let us sleep outside tonight, lay down in our mother's arms, for here we can rest safely ... One sweet world around a star is spinning One sweet world And in her breath I'm swimming, and here we will rest in peace.

  Dave Matthews

  Mother, Sweet, Rest In Peace

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• I thought that perhaps the most creative mix for a society would be nine parts solid worker from institutions like MIT to one part poet from Marrakech, but in spite of the fact that I myself had been trained to be one of the solid workers, which meant that all of my sympathies lay with that group, I would not surrender the poet. The problem was to find him.

  James A. Michener

  Creative, Groups, Would Be

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