Elapsed Quotes
24 quotes by 23 authors
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But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
— Tom Peters
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I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a…
— Jeremy Northam
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If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most…
— Edward Gibbon
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Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably…
— Charles Darwin
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Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As already observed, there…
— Aristotle
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Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth,…
— William Cowper
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I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A more serious problem…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Whenever a new discovery is reported to the world, they say first, It is probably not true, Then after, when the truth of the new…
— Michel de Montaigne
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This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it…
— Anthony Trollope
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Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to…
— Louis Leakey
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It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there…
— James Boswell
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We walked for some time, and grew to know each other, as best as we'd allow. These are some of the high points. They lack…
— Harlan Ellison
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It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port…
— Charlotte Bronte
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All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it intently. That was…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It’s funny, but I was just thinking I wouldn’t mind a repeat of that boring evening when we elapsed to 1953,†said Gideon. “Just you…
— Kerstin Gier
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A man and a woman may become quite intimate in a quarter of an hour. Almost certainly will they endeavour to explain themselves to each…
— James Stephens
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Time flows, we'll never perceive how, For if I were frozen stiff now, To life thawed a million years hence, The time elapsed would not…
— Melchor Lim
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Time elapsed; a lot of things can change, but one one thing that will never change is my past with you
— Alvin
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Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long agothe baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the…
— Jane Mersky Leder
Who Wrote These Elapsed Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 24 Elapsed Quotes as follows: