Lapses Quotes

101 Lapses quotes by 93 unique authors

Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal. — Pope John Paul II
There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity — Tom Peters
Then was ashamed of myself. I should be happy for what I'd been given. I hoped God hadn't noticed my lapse in appreciation. — Charlaine Harris
. . . women were brought up to have only one set of manners. A woman was either a lady or she wasn't, and we… — Judith Martin
I know the expression love bloomed is metaphorical, but in my heart in this moment, there is one badass flower, captured in time-lapse photography, going… — Jandy Nelson
I gave three quiet cheers for Minnesota. In Seattle a dusty inch of anything white and chilly means the city lapses into full-on panic mode,… — Cherie Priest
arrears, n. My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be… — David Levithan
Part of abandoning the all-or-nothing mentality is allowing yourself room for setbacks. We are bound to have lapses on the road to health and wellness,… — Jillian Michaels
If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her revisit after some… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
There's no such thing as a minor lapse of awareness. You're either present with what is--right here, right now--or you're someplace else. — Gay Hendricks
One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking, the… — Glen Duncan
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs. — Max Beerbohm
What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness.… — Brennan Manning
All things belonging to the earth will never change-the leaf, the blade, the flower, the wind that cries and sleeps and wakes again, the trees… — Thomas Wolfe
One mistake, one brief lapse of my new found judgement-that's all it took to unravel everything. What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature. — Isaac Marion
But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion. — Jose Saramago
Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence — the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under… — Jon Krakauer
The other thing Aron found about sensitive people is that sometimes they're highly empathic. It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other… — Susan Cain
Music. Close your eyes and it's a rosebush blooming in time lapse so that it shoots and blossoms flow outward in a swift choreography of… — Laini Taylor
If I find myself half-carelessly taking lapses for granted, "Oh, that's what they always do." "Oh, of course she talks like that, he acts like… — Amy Carmichael
The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing… — Lord Byron
I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as I am now,… — Mark Twain
The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense. — Caity Lotz
The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world… — Jules Verne
The Toddstock thing is the closest thing, I have to say, a Grateful Dead sort of thing where it all lapses over from the formality… — Todd Rundgren

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