Lay

Famous quotes containing the word lay:

“He said, truly, that the reason why such greatly superior numbers quailed before him was, as one of his prisoners confessed, because they lacked a cause,—a kind of armor which he and his party never lacked. When the time came, few men were found willing to lay down their lives in defense of what they knew to be wrong; they did not like that this should be their last act in this world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: “Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!” And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“grown fully, as they say,
they gave her a ring,
and she wore it like a root
and said to herself,
“To be not loved is the human condition,”
and lay like a statue in her bed.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)