Then was ashamed of myself. I should be happy for what I'd been given. I hoped God hadn't noticed my lapse in… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a minor lapse of awareness. You're either present with what is--right here, right now--or you're someplace else. — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
With writing ... you must keep in the habit. After a lapse it will take you not an hour, but a week,… — Anne Bosworth Greene Copy Share Image
The longest time that man may live, The lapse of generations of his race, The continent entire of time itself, Bears not… — James Sheridan Knowles Copy Share Image
From laboratories employing complex apparatus, poetry often emerges into the outside world after a long lapse of time, just as some scientific… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
Where's the hope that can abate The grief of hearts thus desolate That can Youth's keenest pangs assuage, And mitigate the gloom… — Thomas Haynes Bayly Copy Share Image
Music. Close your eyes and it's a rosebush blooming in time lapse so that it shoots and blossoms flow outward in a… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Empathy occurs when we suspend our single-minded focus of attention and instead adopt a double-minded foucus of attention. When our attention lapses… — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The best reason to be assigned, in this case, for not having made the Constitution more free from a charge of uncertainty… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Always there are excellent reasons for these lapses, if the hermit but knew them. Though he is stagnant in his cell, his… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
constituted a critical lapse in judgement and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely responsable — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have lapses of attention, and I can lose some points very quickly - that's been a big thing for him. — Madison Keys Copy Share Image
The TSA is under fire for major security lapses. The TSA has let through pipe bombs, knives, and the last three Nicolas… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
[Phelps] firmly denies that he takes drugs, suggesting that the notorious photo of him smoking from a bong was a one-time lapse… — Michael Phelps Copy Share Image
If I find myself half-carelessly taking lapses for granted, "Oh, that's what they always do." "Oh, of course she talks like that,… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Studying the martial Way is like climbing a cliff: keep going forward without rest. Resting is not permissible because it causes recessions… — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Every act of disobedience committed due to passion, its forgiveness is hoped for. Every act of disobedience committed due to arrogance, its… — Sufyan al-Thawri Copy Share Image
Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I've been filming time lapse flowers continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 35 years. To watch them move… — Louis Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
By and large it is uniformly true in mathematics that there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image