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• How far have you walked for men who've never held your feet in their laps?

  Warsan Shire

  Men, Feet, Shire

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• Later that night, I held an atlas on my lap, ran my fingers across the whole world, and whispered, ‘where does it hurt?’ It answered, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.

  Warsan Shire

  Hurt, Night, Doe

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• Like Scout and her father in To Kill a Mockingbird, my father would pull me onto his lap each night in our four-room apartment and read aloud.

  Jim Trelease

  Father, Night, Four

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• Take heed thou trust not the deceitful lap Of wanton Dalilah; the world's a trap.

  Francis Quarles

  World, Deceitful, Traps

  Francis Quarles (1859). “Emblems, divine and moral, with a sketch of the life and times of the author”, p.54

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• Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together, hands delicately arranged in our lap, fingers tightly intertwined, does not mean that I am required to do the same.

  Orson Scott Card

  Passion, Mean, Hands

  Orson Scott Card (2016). “Seventh Son and Red Prophet”, p.130, Macmillan

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• And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke. Rest you there, poor unbelov'd ones, Lap your loneliness in heat, All too soon the tiny breakfast, Trolley-bus and windy street!

  John Betjeman

  Loneliness, Lying, Clouds

  John Betjeman, “Business Girls”

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• It is still in the lap of the gods whether a society can succeed which is based on "civil liberties and human rights" conceived as I have tried to describe them; but of one thing at least we may be sure: the alternatives that have so far appeared have been immeasurably worse.

  Learned Hand

  Rights, Liberty, Alternatives

  Learned Hand (1955). “A fanfare for Prometheus”

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• And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild, And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

  John Milton

  Summer, Dream, Children

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

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• So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey.

  John Milton

  Mother, Age, Ease

  1665 Michael to Adam. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.11, l.535-40.

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• Imagine censors that wouldn't let you sit in a man's lap. I've been in more laps than a napkin!

  Mae West

  Men, Napkins, Imagine

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• A voice of greeting from the wind was sent; The mists enfolded me with soft white arms; The birds did sing to lap me in content, The rivers wove their charms, And every little daisy in the grass Did look up in my face, and smile to see me pass!

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Nature, Voice, Rivers

  Richard Henry STODDARD (1852). “Poems”, p.56

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• Cats are narcissistic. Their needs come before ours. They don't understand the word "No." They carry themselves with that aloof, arrogant sense of perpetual entitlement, they will jump up and insinuate themselves wherever they please--on your lap, on your newspaper, on your computer keyboard--and they really couldn't care less how their behavior affects the people in their lives. I've had boyfriends like this; who needs such behavior in a housepet?

  Caroline Knapp

  Cat, People, Needs

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• If you're looking at the Bible for a guide to living a compassionate, wise and humane life, well, frankly you've got more chance of finding a lap dancing club in Mekka or a virgin in a catholic orphanage.

  Pat Condell

  Wise, Dancing, Catholic

  YouTube Channel "Pat Condell"/"What Have I Got Against Religion?", www.youtube.com. March 04, 2007.

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• Cat's are unpredictable. It is a fine line between the cure, inquisitive and innocent creature resting on our lap and the hissing, spitting and deranged banshee it might become at any moment. This is why we're trying always to win their love.

  George Takei

  Cat, Winning, Trying

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• On Christmas Day I'll head off for a couple of laps around the Serpentine, or a trek around the whole of Hyde Park. Or I'll walk right across town, with Curtis, my son Jamie's bull mastiff.

  Stella Vine

  Couple, Son, Bulls

  "My Christmas". www.theguardian.com. December 08, 2008.

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• It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Land, Scripts, Ready

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Nothing falls into a man's lap from heaven.  It is from labour that life grows.

  Adolf Hitler

  Fall, Men, Heaven

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• It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when the child in the night screams with terror, hearing sounds that it knows not of, is that child comforted and put to rest? Is it by a philosophical explanation that the sounds were made by the rats in the partition? Is it by imparting entomological knowledge? No; it is by the mother taking the child in her lap, and singing sweetly to it, and rocking it. And the child thinks nothing of the explanation, but only of the mother.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Trust, Mother, Children

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• The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade
  Pants for the refuge of some rural shade,
  Where all his long anxieties forgot
  Amid the charms of a sequester'd spot,
  Or recollected only to gild o'er
  And add a smile to what was sweet before,
  He may possess the joys he thinks he sees,
  Lay his old age upon the lap of ease,
  Improve the remnant of his wasted span.
  And having lived a trifler, die a man.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Retirement, Thinking

  William Cowper (1847). “Poems, with a memoir of the author”, p.146

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• No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array,
  But winter lingering chills the lap of May;
  No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast,
  But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Winter, Rocks, Mountain

  Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Goldsmith's miscellaneous works”, p.3

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• The censors wouldn't even let me sit on a guy's lap, and I've been on more laps than a table-napkin.

  Mae West

  Guy, Napkins, Tables

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• The London streets are paths of loveliness; the very omnibuses look like colored archangels, their laps filled full of little trustful souls.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Soul, Looks, Littles

  Evelyn Underhill (2012). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness”, p.279, Courier Corporation

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• Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth.

  Dante Alighieri

  Earth, Might, Hue

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• [On living in New York City:] I'm oblivious to everything. I just don't notice anything. I sat in a coffee shop, drank half a cup of coffee before I noticed there was lipstick on the cup. There was wadded-up gum and lipstick on the napkin. I must have been sitting on that woman's lap for an hour.

  Laura Kightlinger

  New York, Coffee, Cities

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• It has been wisely said, "that well may thy guardian angel suffer thee to lose thy locks, when thou darest wilfully to lay thy head in the lap of temptation!" Was it not easier for the hero of Judaea to avoid the touch of the fair Philistine, than to elude her power when held in her arms?

  Jane Porter

  Hero, Angel, Temptation

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.19

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