Lapse Quotes

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

  

  Aristotle
  • Time
  • Things
  • Forgotten

• A lapse in judgment is not a crime.

  

  Eddie Perez
  • Crime
  • Judgment
  • Lapse

• As we have seen in Bosnia, we have been there for more than three years, and it wasn't just one deadline lapse -- it was three. We are now running up to $20 billion and going. And I don't think anybody really knows exactly when the end point will come.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Up
  • Running
  • Deadline

• 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.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Relationship
  • Responsibility
  • Judgment

• Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Law
  • Grace
  • Gospel

• The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace around in the mill of habit, and turn thought into an instrument of trade-this is not life. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vitality to the mechanism of existence.

  

  James Martineau
  • Life
  • Years
  • Lapse