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.
It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.
Sitting in the lap of the model you intend to paint never seemed to me to be the ideal location.
Some day your head won’t find my lap so easily. Trust is a habit you’ll soon break.
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.
We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.
Oh, I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in a pool.
How do you summon up courage to dismiss a cat who is paying you a compliment of sitting on your lap?
The London streets are paths of loveliness; the very omnibuses look like colored archangels, their laps filled full of little trustful souls.
Colin : “Perhaps now is the time to tell you that I have a weakness for agreeable women. ” Sugar Beth : “Well, that sure does leave me out. ” Colin : “Exactly. With agreeable women, I’m unendingly considerate. Gallant even. ” Sugar Beth : “But with tarts like me, the gloves are off, is that it?” Colin : “I wouldn’t exactly call you a tart. But then, I tend to be broad-minded. ” She suppressed the urge to dump her porridge in his lap.
LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males.
And then there is Darcy. She is a woman who believes that things should fall into her lap, and, consequently, they do. They always have. She wins because she expects to win. I do not expect what I want, so I dont. And I dont even try.
Her hands quieted. "Yeah. Because even if the law says that no one is responsible for anyone else, helping someone who needs it is the right thing to do. " I sat down beside her, close enough that the skin of her arm hummed right next to mine. "You really believe that?" She looked down at her lap "Yeah. " Then how," I asked, "can you walk away from me?
When I went into the last lap I was regretting a bit that it was over. I was enjoying again the first sector for the last time. Simply fantastic this circuit, and if you get 53 laps more, you appreciate it even more. It's made by God's hands.
You might be a redneck if Santa Claus refuses to let your kids sit in his lap.
There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.
For a quick lap at the Nrburgring, you've probably experienced more in seven minutes. . . than most people have experienced in all their life in the way of fear, in the way of tension, in the way of animosity towards machinery and to a racetrack.
Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer - you can do it, just not as well as the others, really.
I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap
Now the time is come, That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest, And let her head fall into England's lap.