#lapsed

History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own? ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#civilization #collapsed #developed #does #fate

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

#america #came #crossed #during #elapsed

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#collapsed #got #hospital #i #nobel

It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature. ↗

— Alice Meynell

#great #great time #lapsed #man #nature

I lapsed into rude. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#into #lapsed #rude

Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing. ↗

— Peter Orszag

#borrowing #collapsed #department #effect #last

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

#believer #born #catholic #i #i was born

My life collapsed. People ran from me because suddenly it was 'Oh my God! It's over for her now!' ↗

— Nicole Kidman

#collapsed #god #her #life #me

If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young. ↗

— Tatyana Tolstaya

#back #because #collapsed #come #else

I'm a lapsed altar boy. ↗

— Guillermo del Toro

#boy #i #lapsed