If you are strong, torture not the weak, And thus lay not the axe to thy empire.
How much suffering did you lay on yourself before you awakened and recognized that guilt is deadly, and empty, and profitless?
Henry,that's how you get rid of fleas. You keep them from laying eggs. You go to war with them.
Medicine is a golden goose that has to be killed because every time the goose lays a golden egg, someone gets sick or dead.
Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
To be a member of such a crowd ... is not much to be far removed from solitude; the freedom of everyone is assured by the freedom to which everyone else lays claim.
I was in a department store and the clerk came up to me and said "do you want to lay on the couch' I said "Where's your clip board?
It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.
One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project, you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem.
It is not cowardly, quite the contrary, to seek to meet the adversary and know his intentions. However, it is cowardly, shameful and treasonable to lay down arms.
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
When you ‘lie’ to me, you don’t ‘lie down’ or lay. Even after the game you still want to play.
Above us, the constellations spun and the moon paced her weary course. We lay stricken and sleepless as the hours passed.
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get.
When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.
The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting mediation.
Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management; that's dealmaking.
If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
My dad's main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.
