Lapses Quotes

101 Lapses quotes by 93 unique authors

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
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
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
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
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months. — Sophie Swetchine
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
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
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
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
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
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
I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse. — Hale Irwin
Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors... — Thomas Browne
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
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

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