Lapse Quotes

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Shonin: I have composed a poem. Kokushi: Let's hear it. Shonin: When I chant, Both Buddha and self Cease to exist. There is only the… — Takuan Soho
OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive… — Ambrose Bierce
To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars. — William Shakespeare
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their… — Isabel Paterson
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their… — Isabel Paterson
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission. — Isabel Paterson
As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value — Marcus Aurelius
constituted a critical lapse in judgement and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely responsable — William J. Clinton
Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry. — Martin Luther
Don't attribute mishaps to a lapse in concentration - if you missed the note you don't know it. — William Westney
I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse. — Hale Irwin
In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in… — Henry David Thoreau
When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time;… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang… — William Hazlitt
Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely… — Arlie Russell Hochschild
Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass our former standards...and… — Friedrich August von Hayek
I have divers times examined the same matter (human semen) from a healthy man... not from a sick man... nor spoiled by keeping... for a… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
First I did animation films, when I was young, in time-lapse. And then in the '80s I went directly to video. The main reason for… — Pipilotti Rist
Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished- by… — B. H. Liddell Hart
I've been filming time lapse flowers continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 35 years. To watch them move is a dance… — Louis Schwartzberg

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