Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down. — Chinese Proverbs
Fine, dandy, she thought. Then lose the shirt, peel off those leather pants, and lie down on my tile. We'll take turns being on the bottom. — J.R. Ward
We try to give a birthing woman freedom to find the right position for her own needs and comfort. Unfortunately, in our society we think of birthing as something done while lying down. — Michel Odent
Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence. — Louise Bourgeois
You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies. — Chinua Achebe
In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded. — John Dobbin
It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble. — Epicurus
The time has come, everybody lie down so you won't get hurt when the sun bursts. — Neal Cassady
When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. — Jean Harlow
When in bed, meditate. Either you will have a deep meditation or fall asleep. Victory either way. — Naval Ravikant
A bed or a chair will trick you if you stay still on them long at a time. They will draw out your strength and leave you weak as water. — Julia Peterkin
Take a nap in a fireplace and you'll sleep like a log. — Ellen DeGeneres
Falling asleep is like landing a plane. — Matthew Walker
It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous. — Crystal Eastman
You made your bed, now you have to lie in it. — English Proverbs
Short Lies Quotes
The truth is the greatest enemy of the State. — Unknown Author
I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. — Le Corbusier
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. — Unknown Author
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. — Winston Churchill
Before the TRUTH can set you free,you must first recognize which LIES are holding you hostage. — Prince Ea
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie. — Miyamoto Musashi
Tell a lie once and all your truths become questionable.
Laying Low Quotes
If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me. — Michelangelo
To Time it never seems that he is brave
To set himself against the peaks of snow
To lay them level with the running wave,
Nor is he overjoyed when they lie low,
But only grave, contemplative and grave. — Robert Frost
You can knock me down, step on my face, slander my name all over the place. Do anything that you want to do, but uh-oh, honey, lay off of my shoes. — Carl Perkins
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
I have to take care of myself because if you get sick, you still have to work. Im not much a party animal, anyway. I lay low. — Cote de Pablo
Apparently I'm in rehab for intensive partying soooo I'm just going to lay pretty low for a bit and maybe get some frozen yogurt. — Ireland Baldwin
I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me. — Warren Zevon
Never lie to someone who trusts you and never trust someone who lies to you.
By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! Lay the proud usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die! — Robert Burns
Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat. — Walid Muallem
In Winter, [the Antarctic] is perhaps the dreariest of places. Our base, Little America, lay in a bowl of ice, near the edge of the Ross Ice Barrier. The temperature fell as low as 72 degrees below zero. One could actually hear one's breath freeze. — Richard E. Byrd
On Linden, when the sun was low,All bloodless lay the untrodden snow,And dark as winter was the flowOf Iser, rolling rapidly. — Thomas Campbell
Laying Down Quotes
I've had good times and I've had bad times and I reminisce, maybe when I lay down, but throughout my day I keep myself engulfed in whatever moment I'm in because it could steer me into a depressed state. — Kevin Gates
Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives. — Blaise Pascal
Each workout is like a brick in a building, and every time you go in there and do a half-ass workout, you're not laying a brick down. Somebody else is. — Dorian Yates
If you focus on what you left behind, you will never be able to see what lies ahead.
I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns. — Woody Guthrie
I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today. — Isambard Kingdom Brunel
I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today. — Isambard K. Brunel
A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up. — Eartha Kitt
Rollin' down the street, smokin' indo, sippin' on gin an juice
Lay back with my mind on my money and my money on my mind. — Snoop Dogg
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. — Helen Rowland
Well, PT Anderson sent me a script of Boogie Nights which I let lay around my house for about three months, then one day I'm cleaning my office and decided that I'd better read this before the guy calls me back. I never put it down, bro. — Luis Guzman
Lying In Bed Quotes
Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again. — Beatrix Potter
I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you'd come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied. — Jeff Buckley
What does God do all day long? He gives birth. From the beginning of eternity, God lies on a maternity bed giving birth to all. God is creating this whole universe full and entire in this present moment. — Meister Eckhart
A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesnt' become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. — Allen Ginsberg
Is there no pity sitting in the clouds That sees into the bottom of my grief? O sweet my mother, cast me not away! Delay this marriage for a month, a week, Or if you do not, make the bridal bed In that dim monument where Tybalt lies. — William Shakespeare
Advertising is legalized lying.
It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Ressurection. Do they know how to have a good time, or don't they? — Carl Sagan
You start to let go on the day you take one step toward building a new life and then let yourself lie in bed and stare at the ceiling and cry for as many hours as you need. — Brianna Wiest
Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. — Raymond Carver
I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning. — Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Lying Here Quotes
How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century. — Aneurin Bevan
The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands. — Bruce Lee
I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies. — Ram Dass
A lie has many variations, the truth none.
Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree. — George Orwell
Our greatest weaknes lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just on more time.
I often thought my gravestone would say, 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out,' — Ian Mckellen
Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie. — Steven Pressfield
As I say at the beginning of my workshops, 'Everything I say here is a lie -- bullshit, in other words -- because anything that you put in words is not experience, is not the experiment. It's a representation -- a misrepresentation. — John C. Lilly
But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that. — Lucy Hale
Lying On The Floor Quotes
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. — Dean Martin
I've never heard of anybody smoking a joint and going on a rampage. It makes you lie around on the floor and look at the ceiling. What's wrong with that? — Billy Bob Thornton
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore! — Edgar Allan Poe
Hurt me with the TRUTH but never comfort me with a LIE!
We came to see Jace. Is he alright?" "I don't know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving? — Cassandra Clare
Hold everything. I missed a four-way chick fight. Then I find out someone's been nibbling." William's attention shifted to Olivia, who was still lying on the floor. "Please tell me our sweet little angel is the biter. It'll make me want her ever so much more. — Gena Showalter
You are made of bent coat hangers, honey, gravel, epoxy and handstands. I am made of lying on the floor, the same song on repeat. — Dean Young
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I believe that any man's finest moment, the greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out and lies exhausted on the floor of battle-victorious. — Bela Karolyi
The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary. — Agnes De Mille
In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class. — Beth Henley
I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up. — Jackson Browne
Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. — Thomas De Quincey
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. — Blaise Pascal
You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. — Marilyn Monroe
For me to say I wasn't a genius I'd just be lying to you and to myself — Kanye West
Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies. — Julio Cortazar
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake. — Margot Asquith
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious. — Oswald Spengler
White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion. — William S. Paley
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. — Arthur Calwell
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