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I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing. -- Lillie Langtry
There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity -- Tom Peters
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. -- David Storey
As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value -- Marcus Aurelius
To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars. -- William Shakespeare
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. -- 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
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
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. -- Susan Sontag
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 most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses. -- Thomas Huxley
We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech. -- William Carlos Williams
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
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
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 deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends. -- Isabel Paterson
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
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster. -- Douglas MacArthur
It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater. -- Teresa of Ávila
Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again. -- William James
I think I've always had the shots. But in the past, I've suffered too many mental lapses. Now, I'm starting to get away from that and my mental discipline and commitment to the game are much better. I think I'm really taking a good look at the big picture. That's the difference between being around for the final or watching the final from my sofa at home. -- Pele
Forgiving does not usually happen at once. It is a process, sometimes a long one, especially when it comes to wounds gouged deep. And we must expect some lapses...some people seem to manage to finish off forgiving in one swoop of the heart. But when they do, you can bet they are forgiving flesh wounds. Deeper cuts take more time and can use a second coat. -- Lewis B. Smedes
The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense. -- Caity Lotz
No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character. -- Seneca the Younger
... lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares. -- Hildegard Knef
Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors... -- Thomas Browne
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs. -- Max Beerbohm
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As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness. -- Gelett Burgess
Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste. -- Rachel Kushner
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 metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more unintelligible. -- Thomas Jefferson
We're looking forward to the tournament. We still believe that if we play with effort, we can beat anyone. We just can't have those 2-3-minute lapses. -- Rajon Rondo
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
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
I think one remains the same person throughout, merely passing, as it were, i these lapses of time from one room to another, but all in the same house. -- James M. Barrie
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
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
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 that," then I know nothing of Calvary love. -- Amy Carmichael
All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks. -- Carl Bernstein
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 of a concert into more of a lifestyle thing. -- Todd Rundgren
The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control. -- Tim Ferriss
Because of various security lapses, some senators are calling for a probe of the security at the offices of the Department of Homeland Security. The investigation will be conducted by the Department of Irony. -- Amy Poehler

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