#laps

I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#both #found #i #interest #lapse

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#about #collapse #diversity #emergence #family life

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#decades #family #last #seen #system

Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#america #came #crossed #during #elapsed

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse. ↗

— Mike Lee

#collapse #debt #debt ceiling #everything #fantasy

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#collapsed #got #hospital #i #nobel

Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#any #collapse #difficulty #even #great

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

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