Quotes About Lapses

Excusing our momentary lapses as an outlier event triggers a self-indulgent inconsistency—which is fatal for change.

The doctors at Hayden may have erred about the details of her condition. They need their labels, their certainties. What are depression and psychosis, after all, but lapses from realism? And what's that? But the doctors were right about the general crisis. An insufficient God is better than no God at all.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

Still, power provides its own excuses for social lapses.

The taxonomy of medical error is vast, colorful, and at times confusing. There are slips, lapses, harmless hits, and near misses; errors of omission and of commission; operator errors, system errors, accidents, complications, and bad outcomes.