Top 12 Lapsing Quotes
#1. The experiment, so far as its original projectors were concerned, proved, long ago, a failure; first lapsing into Fourierism, and dying, as it well deserved, for this infidelity to its own higher spirit. Where
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#2. In reading we have to allow the sunken meanings to remain sunken, suggested, not stated; lapsing and flowing into each other like reeds on the bed of a river
Virginia Woolf
#3. When I hear that a friend has fallen into matrimony, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#5. Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites.
Edith Wharton
#6. Man is essentially a dreamer, wakened sometimes for a moment by some peculiarly obtrusive element in the outer world, but lapsing again quickly into the happy somnolence of imagination.
Bertrand Russell
#7. Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.
Richard Hughes
#8. Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.
John Dos Passos
#9. This, however, seems to be certain: the ichor, that is, the material I have mentioned that finally becomes red, exists before the heart begins to beat, but the heart exists and even beats before the blood reddens.
Marcello Malpighi
#10. But he had heavy hands with thick muscular fingers and black fingernails and there was a look of power to him, a coiled tight set to the way he stood, balanced, ugly, slightly contemptuous, but watchful, trying to gauge Chamberlain's strength.
Shaara
#11. Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can on it.
Danny Kaye
#12. I guess it's true; no one will ever love you like your family.
Holly Black