Lapses Quotes
101 Lapses quotes by 93 unique authors
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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 hoped…
— 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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Don't attribute mishaps to a lapse in concentration - if you missed the note you don't know it.
— William Westney
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It's wonderful for the players. It's a huge challenge and a huge responsibility for us to get our act together, get our butts in gear.…
— Kobe Bryant
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We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot…
— Gregory Maguire
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What's natural is the microbe. All the rest-heath, integrity, purity (if you like)-is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never…
— Albert Camus
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I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.
— Hale Irwin
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Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors...
— Thomas Browne
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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
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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
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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
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,'…
— Carl Bernstein
Who Wrote These Lapses Quotes
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