Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
Busta Rhymes, I have to give him credit for one thing: he always lays the red carpet out for me when I'm in New York.
Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race.
Trump lays bare a lot of things already wrong with our society. But he also accelerates the process of it becoming worse, when it could be getting better.
Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.
The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.
It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin,
That lays eggs under your skin.
A female salmon lays three thousand eggs a year - and has yet to receive a Mother's Day card from one of them.
When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.
Our ability to respond positively to setbacks, fuels our creativity and lays the foundation for future successes.
Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.
Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul.
The truth is I suppose that a tour lays in a great stock of thought and spirits for the future; the fatigue and drawbacks of actual travelling are forgotten and a bright residuum remains.
I like crunchy things like Baked Lays.
When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3,000,000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother's Day.
I think anyone who lays a long trail of creative work over the years can't help but look back and wonder, 'What was I thinking?'
Science herself consults her heart when she lays it down that the infinite ascertainment of fact and correction of false belief are the supreme goods for man.
Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.
Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.
We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.
Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.
My wife is so fat that when she lays on the beach the people feel sorry for her and try to roll her back into the water.
It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.
I have daughters and I have sons./When one of them lays a hand/On my shoulder, shining fish/Turn suddenly in the deep sea.
When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself.
Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.
Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.
When God lays a burden on our hearts and thus keeps us praying, He obviously intends to grant the answer.
I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.
The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom't were gross flattery to name a coward.
On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.
Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.
Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.
The best feeling in the world is when you child just comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because.
This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.
The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know.
All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.
The Lord never lays more on us, in the way of chastisement, than our state of heart makes needful; so that whilst He smites with the one hand, He supports with the other.
I don't object to nine aces in one deck. But when a man lays down five aces in one hand... and besides, I know what I dealt him!
With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. ... As soon as it lays hold of the feelings, it becomes spirit.
Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope.
A solid process lays the foundation for a healthy culture, one where ideas are evaluated by merit and not by job title.
The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.
Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.
I didn’t break his jaw, but if he lays a hand on you, it will be the first of many things to break,” Patch said.
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.
Whoever prays for those who hurt him lays the demons low; but he who opposes his affronter is bound to the demons.
'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.
Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.
But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays
Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days;
Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays,
And one by one back in the Closet lays.
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.
I think a lot of people have the Frank Lloyd Wright model in their brains. The architect comes in with this act of creation and lays it down, and that's it. But that's not me.
In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.
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