Quotes About Elapsed

#1. But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State.

Thomas Jefferson

#2. Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.

Walter Darby Bannard

#3. I was born in 1961. Now I think the 16 years that elapsed between 1961 and the end of the wars is nothing. To a child growing up it felt like an eternity, an entirely different world.

Jeremy Northam

#4. Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago - the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the avoider ... It doesn't seem to matter how much time has elapsed or how far we've traveled.

Jane Mersky Leder

#5. I have six-year-old fans that weren't even around for 'Genie in a Bottle' or even 'Fighter.'

Christina Aguilera

#6. It's your turn to talk," Tod said when several seconds had elapsed in pensive, angry silence from the hellion. "Negotiation is like playing tennis with words instead of balls. I thought you'd be better at this, considering your apparent lack of balls.

Rachel Vincent

#7. I'm a middle child, and I have a younger sister who is stunning - just beautiful and smart.

Stephnie Weir

#8. Appreciate what everybody does, especially those doing what you are also doing. Don't crave for attention and fame. It will come automatically when your brand is well situated.

Israelmore Ayivor

#9. In order to meditate correctly, you must have knowledge.

Dalai Lama

#10. This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

Anthony Trollope

#11. Most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Southerners had lost everything in defense of the South, and sufficient time hadn't elapsed for respectable rebuilding of financial security in a war- impoverished region.

Sarah-Patton Boyle

#12. If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.

Edward Gibbon

#13. Again time elapsed.

Carolyn Keene

#14. The darkness of a day elapsed,
of a day nourished with our sad blood.

Pablo Neruda

#15. Normal men retain their childish longing for a woman to mother them. At adolescence a new desire is added. They want a girl to allure them. When you put these two together, you have the typical male yearning that Wonder Woman satisfies.

William Moulton Marston

#16. In the 'Angel' days, all there was was a community that was like a chat room. If you were looking for feedback, you had to look for it.

J. August Richards

#17. Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.

William Cowper

#18. For the substance of our existence is not in achievements, but method

Brandon Sanderson

#19. But this I do know that since you have told me that ten years have elapsed since I departed from this earth I have lost all respect for time - I am commencing to doubt that such a thing exists other than in the weak, finite mind of man.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#20. It's funny, but I was just thinking I wouldn't mind a repeat of that boring evening when we elapsed to 1953," said Gideon. "Just you and me and Cousin Sofa.

Kerstin Gier

#21. During the 41 years that have elapsed since Costa Rica abolished its army, our fundamental freedoms have never been threatened, nor do we know a shameful history of repression.

Oscar Arias

#22. Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.

Louis Leakey

#23. It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

James Boswell

#24. The longer the time that has elapsed, the more things fall into proportion. One sees them in their true relationship to one another.

Agatha Christie

#25. The clock changed to 4:47. Passages in time. He had always wondered if it was possible to measure an interval, and here it was, two minutes had elapsed before his very eyes. One hundred and twenty seconds during which nothing had happened.

Ken Puddicombe

#26. Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith.

Penn Jillette

#27. How many centuries must have elapsed before men reached the point of seeing any other fire than that in the sky?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#28. It frequently happens that a villainous action does not torment us the instant we commit it, but on recollection, and sometimes even after a number of years have elapsed, for the remembrance of crimes is not to be extinguished.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#29. Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.

Tom Peters

#30. During the long period which elapsed between the Egyptian and the Babylonian servitudes, the hopes as well as fears of the Jews appear to have been confined within the narrow compass of the present life.

Edward Gibbon