Lapse Quotes
75 quotes by 68 authors
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Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes.
— John Dewey
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There is no such thing as unconsciousness for it is not experienceable. We infer unconsciousness when there is a lapse in memory or communication.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness, unification, self-discovery. Negative…
— Thomas Merton
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History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been…
— Douglas MacArthur
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The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace around…
— James Martineau
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[Phelps] firmly denies that he takes drugs, suggesting that the notorious photo of him smoking from a bong was a one-time lapse of judgment.
— Michael Phelps
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The best reason to be assigned, in this case, for not having made the Constitution more free from a charge of uncertainty in its meaning,…
— James Madison
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I did have a relationship with Ms Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and…
— William J. Clinton
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The Church was resolved to have a New Testament, and as, after the lapse of more than three hundred years, no handwriting could be proved…
— Thomas Paine
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Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the…
— Fareed Zakaria
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I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.
— Lillie Langtry
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Yeah, there were (defensive) breakdowns but there were also variables into having those breakdowns. I think a lot of the mistakes that we made are…
— Gerry Fleming
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Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of time, lust causes…
— Tom Robbins
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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 up, die.
— Gregory Benford
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Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.
— H. Rider Haggard
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There is no lapse in His character or inconsistency in His nature. Our God is everything he says He is… for now and all eternity.
— Matt Redman
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Every act of disobedience committed due to passion, its forgiveness is hoped for. Every act of disobedience committed due to arrogance, its forgiveness is not…
— Sufyan al-Thawri
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By deceiving one another through false assumptions and misrepresentations there has been, in reality, a great lapse and delay in achieving the real goals.
— Dalai Lama
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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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A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.
— Sophie Swetchine
Who Wrote These Lapse Quotes
68 authors contributed a total of 75 Lapse Quotes, led by these top contributors: