Lapses Quotations

Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity

It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.

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...

Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors...

As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value

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.

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.

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.