#lap

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#beloved #caress #child #entirely #feed

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#beings #beliefs #biographies #collapses #determined

According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#ago #around #billions #caused #collapsing

Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#advantage #available #calculation #energy #full

The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the 10 to the 10th bits stored on current laptops. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#bits #current #higher #information #laptop

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#any #collapse #communist #democracy #despite

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide. ↗

— Russell Lynes

#another #coincide #lady #man

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#falter #flap #government #her #majesty

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture. ↗

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#beginning #collapse #end #i #peak

The format of the race weekend is also very well thought out. We have enough practice time to get the cars well set-up and have a proper qualifying session where we can do as many laps as we like, which is great for the drivers and spectators. ↗

— Nigel Mansell

#cars #drivers #enough #format #get