You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back.
Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.
When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.
[last lines] Lorenzo: The future lay sparkling ahead, and we thought we would know each other forever.
I'll just start laying out the melody exactly where I want it to fall. And then I'll go back and fill it out. Whereas, in other pieces I'm really just going a couple bars at a time.
I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.
If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time.
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.
Rick: I don't like disturbances in my place. [to the German officer] Rick: Either lay off politics, or get out.
[Harold and Sunshine are laying on the floor covered in fake blood from Harold's knife] Mrs. Chasen: [shocked] Harold!... That was your last date!
Roy: If you lay that tough-man shit on Aaron again, I will kick your fuckin' ass to Sunday!
Brody: The Bible speaks of the Ark leveling mountains and laying waste in entire regions. An Army that carries the Ark before it... is invincible.
I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.
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.
The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
In the report made on behalf of the C.G.T. we affirmed that the Peace Treaty should, in accordance with the spirit of workers' organizations, lay the first foundations of the United States of Europe.
Many of the people that you lay off will have closer relationships with the people who stay than you do, so treat them with an appropriate level of respect.
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.
