No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I feel like people think that I have mental lapses and I'm injury-prone, which isn't true. You just don't know me. — JaVale McGee Copy Share Image
Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors... — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I regret to say that my hand did, in fact, have an improper relationship with Chelsea Clinton. The incident represents a profound… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I think one remains the same person throughout, merely passing, as it were, i these lapses of time from one room to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force… — Karl Blossfeldt Copy Share Image
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I have prepared myself to be at my peak in London. But in the Olympics, there are so many factors. You need… — Vijender Singh 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
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
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
To have a reputation for being noble, she thought, is more confining than to be known as a wit. On the rare… — Libbie Block 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
When you depart from standard usage, it should be deliberate and not an accidental lapse. Like a poet who breaks the rules… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
No longer is the body a temple to be worshipped as the house of God; it has become a commodified and regulated… — Deborah Lupton 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
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
“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
As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the… — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour,… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
If you're actually being paid to be miserable, and to be as miserable as you can be, that's a very fortunate thing,… — Tom Hollander Copy Share Image
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
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
It's wonderful for the players. It's a huge challenge and a huge responsibility for us to get our act together, get our… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
First I did animation films, when I was young, in time-lapse. And then in the '80s I went directly to video. The… — Pipilotti Rist 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
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