Top 33 Lapsed Quotes
#1. To become a lapsed Catholic, first go to a Catholic university.
Susan Sarandon
#2. Pop was a devout Roman Catholic; I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm not the village atheist, but I exert my right not to believe, and I doubt I would have been very public about that were he still alive, simply just so as not to hurt his feelings.
Christopher Buckley
#3. The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I have read.
Anthony Burgess
#4. Instead, he reflected on what she'd said earlier, about their similarities, thinking she was right and hoping that it was enough to keep her coming back to the ranch. After a while their conversation lapsed into a peaceful lull, and he realized he had no
Nicholas Sparks
#6. A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed time, can be savored of itself and without the usual adulteration of events that clog time like peanuts in brittle.
Walker Percy
#7. I'm a lapsed Catholic in the best sense of the word.
Denis Leary
#8. I was born a Catholic and now I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm something but I'm not a believer any more.
Paul Bettany
#9. I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.
Meghan O'Rourke
#10. I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
Abel Ferrara
#11. I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.
George R R Martin
#12. There's nothing sexier than a lapsed Catholic.
Woody Allen
#13. Henderson, Hitler lapsed into a typical display of sentimental hogwash, though
William L. Shirer
#14. We are holiday-only lapsed Catholics who support homosexuality and a woman's right to choose.
David Levithan
#15. I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist.
Paul Bettany
#16. Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.
Noam Chomsky
#17. The house had not merely lapsed back into the equilibrium of the woods but was blighted, as if inside it did not contain a hearth and a chair and a bed but my cankered heart.
Paul Harding
#18. Since the start of the Abe administration, we resumed peace treaty negotiations with Russia, which had lapsed during the three years of the Democratic Party of Japan administration.
Shinzo Abe
#19. It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
Alice Meynell
#20. Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed ere long into an amiable indifferentism which to outward appearance differed but little from the indifferentism ...
Samuel Butler
#21. I used to do calligraphy, and I'm afraid that has lapsed, but I've always been interested in book printing.
Alice Waters
#22. When we read or hear how some professed Christian has turned defaulter, or lapsed into drunkenness, or slipped from the communion table into open disgrace, it simply means than a human arm has broken. The man has forsaken the everlasting arms.
Theodore L. Cuyler
#23. When asked why they quit, the lapsed dieters cited complexity as the single most important reason for giving up. Simplicity is even more important when people are tired, stressed, or otherwise cognitively impaired.
Donald Sull
#24. I've usually found every Catholic family has one lapsed member, and it's often the nicest.
Evelyn Waugh
#25. I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.
Jimmy Carr
#26. Prose is not so dependent on sound. The line of poetry, with the breaking of the line - to me, sound is the kind of doorway into poetry. And my sense of sound, or my ability to control it, lapsed or grew less.
Donald Hall
#27. At first, right at the outset, yes, I did feel an urge, and I lapsed into great anxiety. I kept thinking all the time of how I was going to live; I wanted to test my fate, felt anxious particularly at certain moments.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#28. Amusement, even ironic amusement, is the beginning of sincere appreciation, as any lapsed hipster knows.
Last Man Standing
#29. Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.
Nadine Gordimer
#30. Webster lapsed into silence. Started thinking hard. He was a smart enough bureaucrat to know if you can't beat them, you join them. You force yourself to think like they think.
Lee Child
#31. Who gave thee, O Beauty,
The keys of this breast,
Too credulous lover
Of blest and unblest?
Say, when in lapsed ages
Thee knew I of old?
Or what was the service
For which I was sold?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#32. Modern ecumenism rightly began in mission, but then lapsed into a merger mentality, then defensive bureaucracy, and finally into unrepresentative forms of extreme politicization.
Thomas C. Oden
#33. I'm a lapsed Zen Buddhist. I've read hundreds of books on Zen, I meditated daily for about fifteen years, and once spent a month studying with Vietnamese Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh.
Will McIntosh
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