Lapses Quotes
101 quotes by 93 authors
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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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I think I've always had the shots. But in the past, I've suffered too many mental lapses. Now, I'm starting to get away from that…
— Unknown Author
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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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Some [intentional communities], like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite an extreme example,…
— Unknown Author
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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
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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
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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
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To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars.
— William Shakespeare
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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
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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
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Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.
— Isabel Paterson
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As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value
— Marcus Aurelius
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Studying the martial Way is like climbing a cliff: keep going forward without rest. Resting is not permissible because it causes recessions to old adages…
— Mas Oyama
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constituted a critical lapse in judgement and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely responsable
— William J. Clinton
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Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry.
— Martin Luther
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