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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
lapses forgiveness half

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
lapses office calling
Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization d... by Antoine Rivarol

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

Antoine Rivarol
lapses doe civilization

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
lapses people years

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

Aristotle
lapses power time

...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
lapses doe art

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
lapses should appreciation

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.

Charlotte Bronte
lapses tongue answers

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
lapses would-be mistake

When a man is not deeply convicted of sin, it is a pretty sure sign that he has not truly repented. Experience has taught me that men who have very slight conviction of sin sooner or later lapse back into their old life.

Dwight L. Moody
lapses taught men

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
lapses minors awareness

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
lapses plot soul
Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of... by H. Rider Haggard

Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.

H. Rider Haggard
lapses hours events
I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to fo... by Hale Irwin

I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.

Hale Irwin
lapses forgiving body

... lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares.

Hildegard Knef
lapses attractive memories

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.

Isabel Paterson
lapses omission people

No matter how carefully records are kept and filed and computerized, they grow fuzzy with time. Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate--like dust. The longer the time lapse, the dustier the history--until it degenerates into fables.

Isaac Asimov
lapses dust history

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
lapses house thinking

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
lapses tangible gains

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
lapses insult progress
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