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I like crunchy things like Baked Lays. -- Lisa Ling
The HeartBreak Kid Lays Down For absolutely... NOBODY!!! -- Shawn Michaels
Whosoever counts these Lays as fable, may be assured that I am not of his mind. -- Marie de France
Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How shall we celebrate the day,When God appeared in mortal clay,The mark of worldly scorn;When the Archangel's heavenly Lays,Attempted the Redeemer's Praise,And hail'd Salvation's Morn! -- Thomas Chatterton
To bring about a genuine political realignment, Republicans must kill the Government Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs - the very Goose they have fought so hard and long to possess. -- Jeb Bush
I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.' -- Henry Rollins
My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge. -- Bernie Taupin
A young woman with long hair and a short white halter dress walks through the casino at the Riviera in Las Vegas at one in the morning. It was precisely this moment that made Play It As It Lays begin to tell itself to me. -- Joan Didion
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. -- Adam Smith
Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg. -- Samuel Goldwyn
Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell. -- Charles Bukowski
A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it. -- Ida Tarbell
The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already. -- Charles Spurgeon
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs. -- Margaret Thatcher
Susie Lynn, the producer of those segments, goes in and lays all the voices over the video. -- Mike Judge
This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow. -- Dennis Banks
The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite. -- Ellen G. White
The Sistine Chapel is an extraordinary work of education - it lays out all the early books of the Bible. -- Peter Greenaway
When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever. -- Noel Gallagher
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves. -- Laurence Sterne
If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of. -- George C. Wallace
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless. -- Thomas A. Edison
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. -- George Muller
It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.' -- Malcolm X
The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say. -- Octavio Paz
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
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
We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us. -- Joan D. Vinge
You see, without hard work and responsibility, there is no American Dream. Hard work lays the foundation. Our solidarity makes work pay - for all of us. For the greater good. That's what our vision of shared prosperity is all about. -- Richard Trumka
It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it. -- Maya Angelou
I write all year, and at the end of the year I put an album out. And if sucks, it sucks, and if it's good, it's good. I just let it lay where it lays. It doesn't stop from doing another one next year. -- Toby Keith
When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next. -- Bruce Schneier
Everybody that's successful lays a blueprint out. -- Kevin Hart
When faith lays hold, impossibilities must yield. -- Smith Wigglesworth
Change lays not her hand upon truth. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
The egg cackles and lays the chicken. -- Robin Morgan
Death lays his icy hand on kings. -- James Shirley
Change lays her hand not upon the truth. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch. -- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
Don't fear whatever God lays before you today. -- Jan Karon
What love lays bare in me is energy. -- Roland Barthes
Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse. -- Aeschylus
Every experience lays the foundation for the ultimate success. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg. -- Aesop
The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers. -- George M. Humphrey
The gladiator lays his plans after he enters the arena. -- Publilius Syrus
Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines. -- A. N. Wilson
The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it. -- Charles Dickens
All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil. -- William Cowper
Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare. -- Langdon Brown Gilkey
He who lays up treasures in heaven looks forward to eternity -- Randy Alcorn
A day lays low and lifts up again all human things. -- Sophocles
A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do. -- Michael Chiklis
Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire. -- George Meredith
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy. -- Irving Babbitt
The blame for the 9/11 attacks lays squarely and exclusively with the Al-Qaeda network. -- Kay Granger
Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs. -- Karl Marx
The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked. -- Neil Gaiman
Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken. -- Wallace Stevens
Socialism lays an bad egg by killing the capitalism that lays the golden eggs -- Margaret Thatcher
Hark, how the cheerful birds do chaunt their lays, and carol of love's praise. -- Edmund Spenser
Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation. -- Oswald Chambers
That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg. -- Samuel Goldwyn
The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning. -- Dennis Lehane
Love like Death,, Levels all ranks, and lays the shepherd's crook Beside the scepter -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
In the quiet moments, listen to your heart; where it wanders is where your truth lays. -- Nikki Rowe
There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right. -- Rudyard Kipling
The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only whenGod lays His headagainst us. -- Thomas Aquinas
The real mistake humans have committed lays in the inability to differentiate between requirements and luxuries. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
The first guy who lays a finger on this blind old man is fined fifty bucks! -- Gene Mauch
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. -- Vittorio Alfieri
The Book of Mormon exposes the enemies of Christ. It confounds false doctrines and lays down contention. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Be comforted, small one, in your smallness. He lays no merit on you. Receive and be glad. -- C. S. Lewis
Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow. -- Sakyong Mipham
Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin, That lays eggs under your skin. -- Ogden Nash
Our ability to respond positively to setbacks, fuels our creativity and lays the foundation for future successes. -- Stacy Allison
One who lays claim to special privilege through the priesthood doesn't understand the nature of his authority. -- M. Russell Ballard
Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources. -- Sun Tzu
Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles. -- Henry Ward Beecher
In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips. -- Red Smith
Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love. -- bell hooks
Understanding is the assassin of bigotry, and lays a strong foundation upon which to build a tolerant society. -- Narissa Doumani
For that is love's nature that it lays claim to exclusive right and that all other claims are nil. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Only gratefulness, in the form of limitless openness for surprise, lays hold of the fullness of life in hope. -- David Steindl-Rast
When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul. -- Richard J. Foster
When God lays a burden on our hearts and thus keeps us praying, He obviously intends to grant the answer. -- J. Oswald Sanders
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears. -- Alexander Smith
Two bricklayers work side by side. The first lays bricks. The second builds magnificent cathedrals. Think small vs. think big. -- Richard Branson
A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society. -- Emma Goldman
When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3,000,000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother's Day. -- Sam Ewing
Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know. -- Chogyam Trungpa
It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man. -- Ludwig von Mises
Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Love transforms, Love heals. But sometimes it lays deadly traps and ends up destroying the person who decided to surrender himself completely. -- Paulo Coelho
As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys. -- William Blake
A solid process lays the foundation for a healthy culture, one where ideas are evaluated by merit and not by job title. -- Eric Ries
When a reader finishes a wonderful story and lays it aside, he should have to pause for a minute and collect himself. -- Raymond Carver
Whoever prays for those who hurt him lays the demons low; but he who opposes his affronter is bound to the demons. -- Marcus Eremita
Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last. -- E. T. A. Hoffmann
When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints. -- Samuel Johnson
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me. -- Martin Luther
A female salmon lays three thousand eggs a year - and has yet to receive a Mother's Day card from one of them. -- Joan Rivers
Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better. -- Jeremy Collier
I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every dream, there lays a cost to be paid. The potency and relevance of your ideas will determine the cost to be paid! -- Israelmore Ayivor
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Most people put money in their piggy bank. I buy a goose that lays golden eggs over and over again. That's what an asset is. -- Robert Kiyosaki
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. -- Richard Wagner

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