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A lapse in judgment is not a crime. -- Eddie Perez
I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing. -- Lillie Langtry
I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse. -- Hale Irwin
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. -- Robert Southey
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. -- George Eliot
The tides which flow and lapse in the Bristol Channel are often distained by the freshets of many streams falling through wooded coombes below the moor. -- Henry Williamson
One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance. -- John Barrow
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
With high-speed cameras, we can do the opposite of time lapse. We can shoot images that are thousands of times faster than our vision. And we can see how nature's ingenious devices work, and perhaps we can even imitate them. -- Louie Schwartzberg
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
A free and rooted society ought to consist of a web of moral obligations. We have the right to ignore them, but we ought to be actually obliged not to let other people starve or to let them lapse into destitution. -- Pankaj Mishra
For days on end, I avoid the Web, never logging in until about two or three, after I've written all morning. On a good week, I don't go online till after Wednesday, so four or five days might lapse without my checking e-mail. -- Mary Karr
I don't have ADD, but I only like to pay attention to the things I like to pay attention to, and things like getting a TV and getting the cable working are beyond me, and so I let such things lapse, sometimes for years. This applies to keeping my apartment clean. -- Jonathan Ames
Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity. -- Arlie Russell Hochschild
There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity -- Tom Peters
Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism. -- Antoine Rivarol
Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours. -- H. Rider Haggard
As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value -- Marcus Aurelius
But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion. -- Jose Saramago
Don't attribute mishaps to a lapse in concentration - if you missed the note you don't know it. -- William Westney
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission. -- Isabel Paterson
To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars. -- William Shakespeare
constituted a critical lapse in judgement and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely responsable -- William J. Clinton
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. -- Aristotle
Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry. -- Martin Luther
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
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months. -- Sophie Swetchine
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
[Phelps] firmly denies that he takes drugs, suggesting that the notorious photo of him smoking from a bong was a one-time lapse of judgment. -- Michael Phelps
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
There is no such thing as unconsciousness for it is not experienceable. We infer unconsciousness when there is a lapse in memory or communication. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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
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
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
Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes. -- John Dewey
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
Were the earth smooth, our brains would be smooth as well; we would wake, blink, walk two steps to get the whole picture, and lapse into a dreamless sleep. -- Annie Dillard
...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I regret to say that my hand did, in fact, have an improper relationship with Chelsea Clinton. The incident represents a profound lapse of judgment for which my hand takes sole responsibility. -- William J. Clinton
The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself. -- Lord Byron
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
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 to the popular taste, as an "old" book. -- Ambrose Bierce
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
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 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 from bud to wild radiant blossom in ten seconds flat. -- Jandy Nelson

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