Lap Quotes - Page 15

• Everything that ever happened to me fell in my lap.

  Oveta Culp Hobby

  Happened

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• Precious few are those who can live in the lap of luxury ... who can keep their moral, spiritual and financial equilibrium ... while balancing on the elevated tightrope of success. ... there is about one in a hundred who can dance to the tune of success without paying the piper named Compromise.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Spiritual, Luxury, Tunes

  Charles R. Swindoll (1994). “Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life”, p.405, Zondervan

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• Reading Ngo Tu Lap's poems, terrible nostalgia wells up in me- nostalgia for a lost time and a far-gone country, nostalgia for people I've loved, and for creatures of forests and rivers. I feel gratitude too. War is over. Peace arrives with these beautiful poems.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Beautiful, Country, Gratitude

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• If I find a green meadow splashed with daisies and sit down beside a clear-running brook, I have found medicine. It soothes my hurts as well as when I sat in my mother's lap in infancy, because the Earth really is my mother, and the green meadow is her lap.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mother, Running, Hurt

  Deepak Chopra (2015). “Quantum Healing (Revised and Updated): Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine”, p.127, Bantam

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• No baby shall at any time be quartered in a house where there are no soft laps, no laughter, or no love.

  Erma Bombeck

  Baby, Laughter, House

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for it.

  Mary Catherwood

  Mother, Men, Giving

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• The empire of Saturnus is gone by;
  Lord of the secret birth of things is he;
  Within the lap of earth, and in the depths
  Of the imagination dominates;
  And his are all things that eschew the light.
  The time is o'er of brooding and contrivance,
  For Jupiter, the lustrous, lordeth now,
  And the dark work, complete of preparation,
  He draws by force into the realm of light.
  Now must we hasten on to action, ere
  The scheme, and most auspicious positure
  Parts o'er my head, and takes once more its flight,
  For the heavens journey still, and adjourn not.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Dark, Journey, Light

  "Wallenstein" by Friedrich Schiller, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Act I, sc. i, 1798.

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• Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.

  William Rehnquist

  Running, Wall, Doors

  Address at Suffolk University Law School; quoted in "The New York Times", April 17, 1986.

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• If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Work, People

  "The Princess". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1889.

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• Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you. Please God, he thought, don't let me die in harness.

  Kingsley Amis

  Cat, Over You, Way

  1960 Take A Girl Like You, ch.5.

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• Cats always pick the laps of the people who don't like them.

  Barbara Mertz

  Cat, People, Picks

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• My uncle used to sit me on his lap and play "ventriloquist", only I wasn't wearing pants.

  Thom Yorke

  Uncles, Play, Pants

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• Now the time is come,
  That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest,
  And let her head fall into England's lap.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Victory, Veils

  William Shakespeare (1840*). “The Works of Shakspeare; from the Text of the Standard Edition by Isaac Reed”, p.468

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• Some women run with wolves, but the majority would be much happier with your basic lap dog.

  Paula Wall

  Running, Dog, Majority

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• I felt like I already knew how to race by the time I was four. I was always at the race track with my dad. I watched him race thousands of laps in a sprint car standing on top of a trailer watching him, getting down and cleaning the mud off his car. That's just what I grew up doing.

  Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.

  Dad, Race, Car

  "A conversation with NASCAR driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to repeat as world champion, and she gives the most gracious interview afterward about how she's had a wonderful career already. Great for Jenny Simpson. Bad for the sport! We need drama!

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Sports, Drama, Careers

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

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• It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Girl, Wife, Religion

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• I gave my wife a kiss this morning. She jumped out of bed and did a lap of honour.

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Morning, Humor

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• At Christmas time I sat on Santa's lap. His fly was open ! Boy what a present he gave me !

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Boys

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• What's important is a great set of objective ears, years of experience and a great room with a true sound. Look at this way: If the equipment in a studio is a high performance car, and the mastering engineer is the driver, putting the car on ice and trying to achieve a good lap time is like trying to master music in a bad room, all the equipment in the world wont help you connect with the music and let you hear what's really happening. The room is the environment in which the mix performs to its potential, as the road is to the car. It's hugely important.

  Chris McCormack

  Years, Ice, Car

  Source: www.hkclubbing.com

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• I'm on Facebook and the Internet EVERY DAY NUMEROUS TIMES A DAY.Sorry about the shouting but I can't help myself. My mother said her dog (a lapdog) never sits on my lap because I always have the laptop on it.

  Franny Armstrong

  Mother, Dog, Sorry

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• Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew; Nor did I wonder at the lily's white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose; They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Sweet, Flower

  William Shakespeare, William George CLARK, William Aldis Wright (1866). “The Globe Edition. The Works of William Shakespeare, Edited by W. G. Clark and W. Aldis Wright”, p.1040

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• It can be a bit annoying if another actor is trying to talk to the director and the wife is sitting on his lap.

  Colin Farrell

  Wife, Trying, Directors

  "Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• Yes, social friend, I love thee well,
  In learned doctor's spite;
  Thy clouds all other clouds dispel
  And lap me in delight.

  Charles Sprague Sargent

  Clouds, Doctors, Smoking

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• The only way to deal with loss - as a horribly unwelcome guest that you know will show up eventually. And so you deny it and reject it and ignore it and laugh in its face. You toss it out into the street and push it away and fight it off, and only it has landed square in your lap, only then do you deal with it.

  Michael Johnson

  Motivational, Success, Loss

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