Lapses Quotes
101 quotes by 95 authors
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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin.…
— Teresa of Avila
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No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair,…
— Anton Chekhov
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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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Because of various security lapses, some senators are calling for a probe of the security at the offices of the Department of Homeland Security. The…
— Amy Poehler
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Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the…
— Edward Abbey
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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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We're looking forward to the tournament. We still believe that if we play with effort, we can beat anyone. We just can't have those 2-3-minute…
— Rajon Rondo
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The twin sister to autonomy and freedom is responsibility and accountability. You cannot have one with out the other. If someone is given an area…
— Henry Cloud
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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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Empathy occurs when we suspend our single-minded focus of attention and instead adopt a double-minded foucus of attention. When our attention lapses into single focus,…
— Simon Baron-Cohen
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Forgiving does not usually happen at once. It is a process, sometimes a long one, especially when it comes to wounds gouged deep. And we…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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