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.'
Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.
I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.
The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.
Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord.
Christmas was an ingenious plan designed by God to lay siege to the hearts of all men by submitting Himself to the greed of all men.
Peter's destiny lay along a different path from John's. And your calling is unlike anyone else's. But the call remains the same: "Follow Me!
Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.
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 know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I'm just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
Don’t look to man for the things God has FREELY given to you. Ask God to REVEAL to you how you can fully lay hold of it for yourself.
I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it.
Before Google, and long before Facebook, Bezos had realized that the greatest value of an online company lay in the consumer data it collected.
The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what they are, not to bundle them into some other category.
I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent.
I’m thinking of the protector who wants to be protected and a fighter who loves the right battle but will lay down her arms to go on a quest.
With families, your priorities shift. You're not going to be like, 'Let's go out on tour year-round.' I have kids in school. You have to lay things out.
Emotion lay at the very heart of the process of perception, intertwined with intellectual functions, yet adding to perception a quality that reason lacked.
I am sore wounded but not slain I will lay me down and bleed a while And then rise up to fight again
