Top 315 Laid Quotes

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.
Gustav Krupp
With regard to moral rules, the child submits more or less completely in intention to the rules laid down for him, but these, remaining, as it were, external to the subject’s conscience, do not really transform his conduct.
Jean Piaget
I have seen hard times in my life. I lost my foot and was badly injured after a gang of thieves threw me out of the running train. I laid down on the tracks for hours and later was hospitalised. I could have failed and died.
Arunima Sinha
I remember when I was 13 or 14 friends coming over and my father telling them the benefits of joining the army. But he knew that army life wasn’t for me. I was a little bit too laid back and lackadaisical and ill-disciplined.
John Barnes
If we reduce the number of employees for better short-term financial results, employee morale will decrease. I sincerely doubt employees who fear that they may be laid off will be able to develop software titles that could impress people around the world.
Satoru Iwata
Tina Fey is really cool. She’s so mellow and laid back.
Judah Friedlander
When I was recording from ’70 to ’82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing.
Roy Ayers
If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves? We claim British rights not by charter only! We are born to them.
Samuel Adams
In every art form, nothing exists in a bubble. It exists because of what came before it. A lot of bricks were laid. I think if it weren’t for ‘The Purge,’ ‘Get Out’ wouldn’t resonate as a mainstream movie. You push on the taste of the audience, in a way, get them used to something, and then you keep pushing on it.
Jason Blum
The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.
George Stephenson
If I’m going to go all out and wear something new, y’all just know that it’s brand new and it’s likely that nobody has even put it out there yet. Or it’s going to be something that’s real chill and laid back.
Westside Gunn
My beliefs and my faith are part of who I am, and I’m so grateful that I had the foundation laid early on. My mom took me to church from my earliest memories, so I’m grateful to have had that foundation laid early, and it’s just part of who I am.
Jay DeMarcus
When I got laid off, I would write my friends these 15-page-long emails. This was before people had personal emails, and my friends would tell me that I was going to get them fired if I kept sending them stuff, so I started a website.
Jen Lancaster
On the second album, I kind of laid down a little bit because there’s a different respect level, people want to know if you’re classy or if you’re still raw.
Trina
I’d call myself the mediator. I kind of just float around and do my own thing. I’m kind of chilled out, laid back.
Zayn Malik
In the middle order the game is a little more laid out for you, whether you are batting first or chasing down a score, so you are a bit more reactive to the situation in front of you. Opening up, it is pretty much a blank canvas and dependent on how you play.
Jos Buttler
I’m not one of these Disney haters. I’m really appreciative of the foundation it laid for me.
Nick Jonas
Writing was something I always liked, but it wasn’t a career until I was laid off from my executive position in my 30s. I started a website because I was bored, unemployed and angry.
Jen Lancaster
We laid the foundation before we went to a major label.
Quavo
Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.
Jim Davis
Unlike most expectant moms, I haven’t had cravings to eat anything fancy. But on one day, I felt like eating kulfi. In the next hour, every possible flavour of kulfi in all shapes and sizes were laid out in front of me.
Radhika Pandit
I had been laid off from ‘Entertainment Weekly ‘right before I started writing ‘Gone Girl.’
Gillian Flynn
They call it the rope-a-dope. Well, I’m the dope. Ali just laid on the rope and I, like a dope, kept punching until I got tired. But he was probably the most smart fighter I’ve ever gotten into the ring with.
George Foreman
My own funeral, I’d like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.
Anne Rice
To set a trap for a handful of promiscuous individuals, the Zina law has laid a minefield for women in difficult circumstances.
Asma Jahangir
Trump would have been unelectable were it not for the g

Trump would have been unelectable were it not for the groundwork laid by Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, two liberal heroes.
Naomi Klein
One place had a winning record that I went to, and that was Detroit. Rick Carlisle laid a foundation that gave us a chance to win a championship.
Larry Brown
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
Mark Twain
Although we are physically laid to rest, we meet again and again to make amends. If I hurt someone in this life, I’ll have to relive it to make amends. It helps you realize that by hurting someone, you are actually hurting yourself.
Shari Arison
When I used to watch comedians with my dad, he laid it all out for me. He wanted to be a comedian himself, and he was so funny. We’d watch stand-up on TV, and he’d tell me the subtext of what they were saying.
Roseanne Barr
If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid aside; but just the Reverse.
Charles Inglis
If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
Edmund Wilson
It’s interesting when you write something for somebody else, and then you’re like, ‘Oh man, I just laid my whole trip on them, and they don’t even know!’
LP
So much of selling a film in the industry is about creating a fulcrum where all the pressure comes to bear, and something seems suddenly valuable and approved by an audience. It’s amazing how people could pick up tons of films on the cheap, but they don’t because they wait until everything is laid out for them.
Whit Stillman
When you’re on a Soyuz flight, you know that when you go to Russia, you’re going to do X, Y, and Z. You have that plan already laid out.
Sunita Williams
We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.
James Larkin
Our only president who has died as U.S. commander in chief in war is Franklin Delano Roosevelt – who died of a cerebral hemorrhage or massive stroke on April 12, 1945, only three weeks before the unconditional surrender of the German armed forces he had laid down as implacable Allied policy two years before.
Nigel Hamilton
Definitely scatterbrained. I internalize a lot of thoughts, and sometimes it seems like I’m not listening or totally zoned out, but I’m always on a loop of ideas and song titles. I’m definitely kind of a space cadet, but I’m very laid back.
Maren Morris
The New Age, I think, is a term that is well laid to rest.
Marilyn Ferguson
Many of the best teachers I know are being laid off because their unions value seniority over intellect, passion, creativity, and drive.
Sal Khan
I like girls who are laid back and fun to be around.
Cody Simpson
In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps – college students and new graduates – to do what little was left of the work of the employees they’d laid off.
Jill Lepore
I am laughably aggressive, and the rest of the band is very laid back, so we mix well.
Shirley Manson
The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
Martin Luther
My bed isn’t made, I’m tired, I haven’t slept well for two weeks. I haven’t been laid in a month. I don’t have a girlfriend. I have a warrant for my arrest.
Layne Staley
God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.
Joel Osteen
If you’ve been laid off, you know how it goes: Everything you thought you knew and liked about yourself gets called into question.
John Hickenlooper
I’ve always been laid back, go with the flow.
Sadie Sink
I had panels – roundtables in the district – and the stories that were told are really difficult to accept. People who have diabetes who can’t get insurance because of a preexisting condition; others who were laid off and the have no place to turn.
Sander Levin
I used to be quite laid back and that. But obviously the more you’re in the public eye, the more you’ve got to… dress to impress.
Judd Trump
If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.
Kirk Hammett
A film ingeniously directed does indeed give the impression of having been laid end to end, but a film ingeniously edited gives the impression of having suppressed all direction.
Jean-Luc Godard
I’m pretty laid back.
Bradley Walsh
Since 9/11 we have somehow come to accept the ‘radicalization’ narrative, which basically holds that people become terrorists through a series of consecutive, traceable steps laid out for them by large international Islamic organizations. Reality is messier, and also smaller.
Masha Gessen
Everything is complicated about using concrete – the discipline and dedication necessary to make consistent batches, understanding exactly how the formwork will be laid, what the timing is for the pours, how you keep it clean and neat to achieve a fine quality.
Annabelle Selldorf
My style is very laid back. I like to be comfortable, but with some kind of piece that pumps it up a little bit – something more high fashion.
Tori Kelly