#lapse

Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in. ↗

— John Blair

#arrest #assaulting #beaten #cell #charged

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. ↗

— George Eliot

#interpreters #lapse #longer #rather #read

Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#bed #children #collapsed #once #parental

I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan. ↗

— Pat Boone

#backed #because #best #caused #causes

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#bad #bad government #banking #caused #collapse

The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#cleopatra #collapsed #elizabeth #elizabeth taylor #million

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#catholic #i #lapsed #like #point

How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go. ↗

— Bryan Clay

#collapse #complete #fun #go #how

After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history. ↗

— Hans Kung

#cold #cold war #collapse #colonialism #communism

He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played. ↗

— William Gaddis

#collapse #high #his #most #noted