Elapsed Quotes

You know that he came into his uncle's money a little time ago, and after a first delirious outbreak, he has now relapsed into that dead heavy state of despair which is caused by having everything which one can wish for. How absurd are the ambitions of life when I think that I, who am fairly happy and as keen as a razor edge, should be struggling for that which I can see has brought neither profit nor happiness to him! - Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.

You can second-guess this all you want ... but there's no question that the four days that elapsed that we had this mini-storm that blew up ... was embarrassing for the vice president and embarrassing for the president. - David Gergen

Yesterday, I was trying to do something productive with my day. I started off doing homework, which evolved into a stickman war in my English book. I tried to go for a run, but got destracted by a squirrel. I tried to help clean the house but ended up fascinated by the mouldy orange juice cartons which lay under my bed. I then tried to revise for a test, which soon elapsed into me writing comebacks at the teachers work comments in my exercise book. I then took a nap. This, however, was successful. - Anon

We'll be filing motions to ask the court to dismiss. The statute of limitations has elapsed, but she's factually not guilty. - Max Kravitz

We knew the data collected after the attack was going to be weak, but I was a little dumbfounded by the fact that the numbers even before the attack were awfully weak... Even before the attack, the economy seems to have relapsed into the doldrums. - Sung Won Sohn

We have seen a spike in interest in E85... Not enough time has elapsed for people to start running out to buy flexible-fuel vehicles, though. - Roger Price

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

They not only relapsed; they relapsed quickly. - Lee Cohen

The conventional approach in this country is not to proceed with the PFO until at least six to eight weeks have elapsed from the time of the stroke. Our protocol also dictates that the procedure is not done until and unless there has been a second stroke, except under certain conditions. - Dr. David L. Fischman

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