The essence of true friendship, in my view, is to make allowances for one another's little lapses. — David Storey Copy Share Image
“ 'We've all had judgement lapses that had us tiptoeing toward our own personal apocalypse.' ” — Vicki Pettersson 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
Sometimes I have lapses of attention, and I can lose some points very quickly. — Madison Keys Copy Share Image
Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours. — H. Rider Haggard 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
All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be… — George Eliot 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
I just have these lapses. Guess I'm stuck with it. But I play better when I get behind. I say to myself,… — Evonne Goolagong Cawley Copy Share Image
There are times in the game when you have lapses. It just means you're not as locked in as when you first… — Shaun Livingston 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
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
One mistake, one brief lapse of my new found judgement-that's all it took to unravel everything. What a massive responsibility, being a… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
By deceiving one another through false assumptions and misrepresentations there has been, in reality, a great lapse and delay in achieving the… — Dalai Lama 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
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
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
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
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
What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time, But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue, But Thee, O man's best Man,… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
All things belonging to the earth will never change-the leaf, the blade, the flower, the wind that cries and sleeps and wakes… — Thomas Wolfe 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
“you think all existence lapses in a quiet flow as that in which your youth has hitherto slid away” — Charlotte Brontë 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
As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value — Marcus Aurelius 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
... lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares. — Hildegard Knef Copy Share Image
Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
