“Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation? / Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me? / For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.”
Bible
“But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.”
“Lay is making eye contact with the jury, and they're not looking away from him, which is a very good sign for Lay.”
David Berg
“If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of”
George Wallace
“This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.”
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“The little dog lay curled and did not rise But slept the deeper as the ashes rose, And found the people incomplete”
Richard Wilbur
“As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.”
William Blake
