There is no such thing as unconsciousness for it is not experienceable. We infer unconsciousness when there is a lapse in memory… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Plants do everything animals do, but slowly. They migrate, communicate, deceive, stalk their food and, with an ostentation of styles and perfumes… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours. — H. Rider Haggard 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
I have never got on with the quietist movements: they lapse too easily into self-congratulations: I have found the oneness, you have… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Part of abandoning the all-or-nothing mentality is allowing yourself room for setbacks. We are bound to have lapses on the road to… — Jillian Michaels 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
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
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
The Church was resolved to have a New Testament, and as, after the lapse of more than three hundred years, no handwriting… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The… — Carl Bernstein 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
Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities,… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
We must understand that the fact of error, demonstrated in subsequent work, does not suggest that ethical lapses are responsible. It is… — Lewis M. Branscomb Copy Share Image
The main reason I went to digital was because I got time-lapse, video, and still images all in one camera. Having a… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's… — Fareed Zakaria 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
Don't attribute mishaps to a lapse in concentration - if you missed the note you don't know it. — William Westney Copy Share Image
We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
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