Lapse Quotes

75 Lapse quotes by 67 unique authors

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
The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body, animal,… — Nicole Brossard
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. — George Eliot
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. — Robert Southey
The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is… — Thomas Pynchon
The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse… — Hermann Hesse
The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that… — N. T. Wright
...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. — Aristotle
We start out in identical perfection: bright, reflective, full of sun. The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality. We meet with grief.… — Gregory Maguire

Who Wrote These Lapse Quotes

67 authors contributed a total of 75 Lapse Quotes, led by these top contributors: