Words matter. These are the best Lapse Quotes from famous people such as John Barrow, Louie Schwartzberg, Jim Cantrell, Henry Williamson, Blake Farenthold, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
Enigma is really an investment in peace of mind. I keep a lot of confidential information on my laptop. I’m usually very careful about keeping my laptop under close physical control but had an unfortunate lapse and left it on a plane. That could have cost me dearly if not for the Enigma.
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.
I’ve already composed and written a letter to the House administration telling them to withhold my paycheck in the event of a lapse of appropriations.
The ban on assault weapons was a good and necessary law that was allowed to lapse through the influence of special interests.
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.
I got my first trademark in 2005: ‘EcoGeek.’ It was the name of a blog that had become my job. I had a dream of turning it into a big business. After spending a huge amount of time and money attempting to ‘protect’ that trademark, I let it lapse. It was still 2005.
Unlike a high-wire walker, I don’t think any musician strikes the wires of a piano or draws a bow across a violin’s strings primarily for the kick of an adrenalin fix. There is danger on stage, but dropped notes are not broken bones; a memory lapse is not a tumble to the ground.
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.
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
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.
Nobody wants to see someone’s life ruined over a small-time lapse in judgment.
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.
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.
