Laid Quotes

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.

Things went in a direction that I didn't want to go. I started doing bit parts and things that are pretty much laid out for people in my position. The parts were pretty generic.

I've laid down my set of principles, so I will not force government-run health care on anyone.

They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer.

I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest.

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.

Moderates shouldn't be nervous about Newt because he has a vision, he's laid it forward. He's fundamentally leading us in the way that middle class Americans want to go.

If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now.

I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what's coming to the boil.

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders.

The devout have laid out gardens in the desert.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.

How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!

After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion.

The foundations of democratic transition should be laid in accordance with a sincere and committed strategy that is supported by various policy tools, and implemented wisely.

Through years of secret work, scientific and basic ground work was laid, in order to be ready again to work the German Armed Forces at the appointed hour, without loss of time or experience.

It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section.

I think maybe L.A. or San Francisco could be rushed, but Sacramento is just laid back!

When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these do.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along.