“you think all existence lapses in a quiet flow as that in which your youth has hitherto slid away” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours. — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have lapses of attention, and I can lose some points very quickly. — Madison Keys Copy Share Image
No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism. — Antoine Rivarol 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
But when we start to focus in on what our own mind is up to, for instance, it is not unusual to… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Forgiving does not usually happen at once. It is a process, sometimes a long one, especially when it comes to wounds gouged… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
I had often stood on the banks of the Concord, watching the lapse of the current, an emblem of all progress, following… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When a man is not deeply convicted of sin, it is a pretty sure sign that he has not truly repented. Experience… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
No matter how carefully records are kept and filed and computerized, they grow fuzzy with time. Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate--like… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I think I've always had the shots. But in the past, I've suffered too many mental lapses. Now, I'm starting to get… — Pele 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
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
“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 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
The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals,… — Charles Sumner 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
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
I have divers times examined the same matter (human semen) from a healthy man... not from a sick man... nor spoiled by… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
... lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares. — Hildegard Knef 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
As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse. — Hale Irwin 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
The essence of true friendship, in my view, is to make allowances for one another's little lapses. — David Storey Copy Share Image
