Lapses famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
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, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
-- Aristotle -
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 that. "It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.
-- David Levithan -
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 -
All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be changed, and that there would be no lapse into the old monotony.
-- George Eliot -
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 against our mortal souls...
-- Gregory Maguire -
Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.
-- H. Rider Haggard -
I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.
-- Hale Irwin -
... lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares.
-- Hildegard Knef -
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.
-- Isabel Paterson -
More apparent to Teamster members than any moral lapses were the tangible gains that had been steadily realized under Hoffa since his advent to power.
-- Jimmy Hoffa -
The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing.
-- Joseph Addison -
The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form.
-- Karl Blossfeldt -
I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.
-- Lillie Langtry -
Many scholars have felt that the Heronian passage [on a pipe-organ moved by an anemourion-like wheel] can be disregarded because it is not confirmed by other writings. Heron presumably mentioned the anemourion in a moment of distraction, forgetting that it had not been invented yet. We know that he was given to such lapses.
-- Lucio Russo -
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; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.
-- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington -
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 -
When you depart from standard usage, it should be deliberate and not an accidental lapse. Like a poet who breaks the rules of poetry for creative effect, this only works when you know and respect the rule you are breaking. If you have never heard of the rules you are breaking, you have no right to do so, and you are likely to come off like a buffoon or a barbarian. Breaking rules, using slang and archaic language can be effective, but it is just as likely to give you an audience busy with wincing.
-- N.D. Wilson -
First I did animation films, when I was young, in time-lapse. And then in the '80s I went directly to video. The main reason for that was that I could control all the steps.
-- Pipilotti Rist -
I don't know what I can do about the aging. Yes, I am aging. Oh my God, I'm aging all the time. It's like those flowers that wilt in front of you in time-lapse films. But what can I possibly do? Look like a lunatic?
-- Sarah Jessica Parker -
Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors...
-- Thomas Browne -
There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity
-- Tom Peters -
I have prepared myself to be at my peak in London. But in the Olympics, there are so many factors. You need to stay alert all the time, and a lapse of concentration, even for a second, will let you down.
-- Vijender Singh -
It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave.
-- Washington Irving -
Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and laws is at once overturned by its madmen and scoundrels and lapses into barbarism.
-- William Batchelder Greene -
Don't attribute mishaps to a lapse in concentration - if you missed the note you don't know it.
-- William Westney -
The very foundation of our science is only an inference; far the whole of it rests an the unprovable assumption that, all through the inferred lapse of time which the inferred performance of inferred geological processes involves, they have been going on in a manner consistent with the laws of nature as we know them now.
-- William Morris Davis -
If you're actually being paid to be miserable, and to be as miserable as you can be, that's a very fortunate thing, if you're prone to occasional lapses of spirit.
-- Tom Hollander
