Gaps famous quotes

Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Stars #Fall #Gaps

The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic.
-- Amos Oz

#Party #Gaps #Labor

The Americans provide still more advanced military assets and equipment; the Europeans are lagging behind. And eventually it will be difficult to co-operate even if you had the political will to co-operate because of the technological gap.
-- Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#Military #Political #Gaps

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.
-- Anna Lindh

#World #Gaps #Rich

Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal? Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away
-- Arsene Wenger

#Titles #Gaps #Lasts

If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver.
-- Ayrton Senna

#Racing #Gaps #Drivers

The gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss into which mankind can fall to annihilation.
-- Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

#Fall #Gaps #Wealth

The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.
-- Barry Commoner

#Technology #Needs #Gaps

I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many.
-- Ben Fountain

#Littles #Gaps #Ashamed

Faith is the only thing that will ever close the gap between our theology and our reality.
-- Beth Moore

#Faith #Reality #Gaps

The gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred.
-- Bo Lozoff

#Self #Hatred #Gaps

The biggest gap in your life is between what you know and what you do.
-- Bob Proctor

#Life #Law Of Attraction #Gaps

There is, in every event, whether lived or told, always a hole or a gap, often more than one. If we allow ourselves to get caught in it, we find it opening onto a void that, once we have slipped into it, we can never escape.
-- Brian Evenson

#Events #Gaps #Void

Innovation: Imagine the future and fill in the gaps.
-- Brian Halligan

#Entrepreneur #Innovation #Gaps

In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended on an insistence that these gaps be filled by natural explanations, logically derived from confirmable evidence. Because "intelligent design" theories are based on supernatural explanations, they can have nothing to do with science.
-- Bruce Alberts

#Intelligent #Design #Gaps

Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.
-- Bruce Lee

#Anxiety #Ongoing #Gaps

I liked his voice, rich and unself-conscious even when he forgot words and hummed to fill in the gap. What I didn't understand, I imagined, and thus it became a love song.
-- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#Song #Voice #Gaps

The grandiose plans of what Macintosh was gonna be was just so far out of whack with the truth of what the product was doing. And the truth of what the product was doing was not horrible, it was salvageable. But the gap between the two was just so unthinkable that somebody had to do something, and that somebody was John Sculley.
-- Chris Espinosa

#Two #Gaps #Macintosh

The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.
-- Clay Shirky

#Real #Gaps #Doing Nothing

He went through a non-existant gap.
-- Clive Tyldesley

#Football #Gaps

Changes occur because there’s a gap between what is and what should be.
-- Craig McCaw

#Gaps #Should

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.
-- Dan Brown

#Gaps #Spirituality #Demon

There is no you in NewVillager, but there is a we. Your job thenceforth will be that of the bodhisattva, the guru, the gap-toothed docent with a serious thing for Whistler's Mother. There will be others, newervillagers than yourself, who never stood a chance either. Only through them do you stand any hope of tracing your footsteps back to where you began.
-- Daniel Levin Becker

#Mother #Jobs #Gaps

Science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean you can fill in the gaps with whatever fairy tale most appeals to you.
-- Dara O Briain

#Mean #Gaps #Fairy Tale

There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No paleontologist..denies that this is so. It is simply a fact, Darwin's theory and the fossil record are in conflict.
-- David Berlinski

#Records #Gaps #Fossils

There was a pause. I was still scared by every gap in our conversation, fearing that this was it, the point where we had nothing left to say. I was still trying to impress you, and I still wanted to be impressed by you, so I could pass along pieces of your impressiveness to my friends, convincing myself this was possible.
-- David Levithan

#Trying #Pieces #Gaps

Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.
-- David Rockefeller

#People #Important #Gaps

There are still substantial areas of disagreement, .. you simply have to look at the public statements to see there is a significant gap.
-- David Trimble

#Looks #Gaps #Significant

Take advantage of each small success. In this way you close the gap between what you want from life and what it is giving you.
-- Deepak Chopra

#Giving #Want #Gaps

That silent gap between your thoughts is your window to the cosmic mind.
-- Deepak Chopra

#Spiritual #Mind #Gaps

You don't have to have a thigh gap to be beautiful
-- Demi Lovato

#Beautiful #Gaps #Thighs

[Our self-image is] that gap between intention and effect
-- Diane Arbus

#Self #Gaps #Intention

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#Tears #Trying #Gaps

I couldn't ever boil potatoes over the heat of your affection. Your love would never bridge a gap; it wouldn't even fill up the hole that the mice came through ...
-- Djuna Barnes

#Bridges #Gaps #Potatoes

The scientific approach to the phenomenon of human nature enables us to be ignorant without bieng frightened, and without, therefore, having to invent all sorts of wierd theories to explain away our gaps in knowledge.
-- Donald Woods Winnicott

#Ignorant #Gaps #Human Nature

Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere.
-- Douglas Coupland

#Looks #Gaps #Like You

Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.
-- Douglas Coupland

#Perception #Layers #Gaps

There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomenon, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural... we should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance.
-- Edgar Mitchell

#Ignorance #Gaps #Strive

I have been studying women's political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris.
-- Eleanor Smeal

#Political #Gaps #Firsts

Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants. But this is not what the paleontologist finds. Instead, he or she finds gaps in just about every phyletic series.
-- Ernst Mayr

#Gaps #Fossils #Facts

The world of fantasy fills the gaps in people's knowledge.
-- Fred Vargas

#People #World #Gaps

Anxiety is the gap between now and later.
-- Frederick Salomon Perls

#Anxiety #Fearless #Gaps

When I listen to the public debates about climate change, I am impressed by the enormous gaps in our knowledge, the sparseness of our observations and the superficiality of our theories.
-- Freeman Dyson

#Climate #Gaps #Global Warming

Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller.
-- Gary Hamel

#Imagination #Gaps #Imagine

The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
-- Gaston Caperton

#Country #School #Gaps

The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.
-- George Ade

#Teacher #Bridges #Gaps

The earliest and most primitive known members of every order already have the basic ordinal characters, and in no case is an approximately continuous sequence from one order to another known. In most cases the break is so sharp and the gap so large that the origin of the order is speculative and much disputed.
-- George Gaylord Simpson

#Character #Order #Gaps

I like the fact that I have good old-fashioned British teeth with a big gap.
-- Georgia May Jagger

#Teeth #Gaps #Facts

The gap between the rich and the poor is wider in the United States than it is in any of the other industrialized nations.
-- Gerald Celente

#Gaps #United States #Rich

I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.
-- Greg Egan

#Writing #Long #Gaps

And, even if Affirmative Action survives, it is also clear that these policies are not themselves sufficient to close the educational and employment gaps that plague U.S. minorities.
-- Harry J. Holzer

#Educational #Gaps #Minorities

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
-- Herman Wouk

#Reality #Wish #Gaps

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.
-- Ira Glass

#Ambition #Gaps #Volume

The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.
-- James Geary

#Mind #Information #Gaps

There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.
-- Janette Turner Hospital

#Writing #Burning #Gaps

You tend to think that there is a big gap between F1 and everything else. F1 is where all the fantastic drivers are, so you just don't know how good you are until you get there.
-- Jean Alesi

#Thinking #Gaps #Fantastic

The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.
-- Jean Piaget

#Gaps #Novelty #Problem

Would you like a whiskey?' I say. 'I've got some.' (That's original. I bet nobody's ever thought of that way of bridging the gap before.)
-- Jean Rhys

#Gaps #Way #Whiskey

The discrepancy between what was expected and what has been observed has grown over the years, and we're straining harder and harder to fill the gap.
-- Jeremiah P. Ostriker

#Years #Gaps #Observation

New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the new cannot penetrate.
-- Joan Robinson

#Ideas #Gaps #Repetition

That's the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.
-- John Madden

#Sports #Differences #Gaps

When fewer workers have unions, the standard of living falls for everyone and the gap between the rich and poor grows.
-- John Sweeney

#Fall #Unions #Gaps

The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.
-- John W. Gardner

#Creative #Gaps #Individual

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.
-- Jonathan Sacks

#Past #Government #Gaps

The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
-- Jorge Luis Borges

#May #Gaps #Inevitable

I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up.
-- Joss Stone

#Writing #Gaps #Advertising

I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.
-- Julie Harris

#Clothes #Generations #Gaps

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.
-- Kathleen Turner

#Confidence #Actors #Gaps

Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/ as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest maps.
-- Kay Ryan

#Ocean #Water #Gaps

The investment banks should either choose to be regulated as banks or should arrange to conduct their affairs to not require the stop-gap support of the Federal Reserve.
-- Kenneth C. Griffin

#Support #Gaps #Affair

Every time I go to the dentist they say, 'You really need to fix that gap of yours'. I'm like, 'My gap is paying your dentist bills.'
-- Lara Stone

#Needs #Bills #Gaps

Do work you love, in which you can excel: The smaller the gap between who you are in your personal life and who you are at work, the happier you will be.
-- Lauren Mackler

#Work #Gaps #Who You Are

When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.
-- Maggie Q

#People #Gaps #Sometimes

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.
-- Marcel Duchamp

#Art #Gaps #Art Is

we lived in the gaps between the stories
-- Margaret Atwood

#Stories #Gaps

I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.
-- Margaret Spellings

#Mean #Achievement #Gaps

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God.
-- Marguerite Duras

#Alcohol #Gaps #Psychological

There's definitely a huge gap between the elite and public perceptions on immigration.
-- Mark Krikorian

#Perception #Gaps #Immigration

The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.
-- Mark Twain

#Heart #Want #Gaps

We didn't have a generation gap, we had a generation Grand Canyon.
-- Mary Brave Bird

#Gaps #Generations #Canyons

Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.
-- Matt Mullenweg

#Technology #Opportunity #Gaps

The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom.
-- Matt Ridley

#Lying #Behaviour #Gaps

The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower
-- Michael Longley

#Gaps #Enormous #Poetry Is

I just like to talk to people. I don't know how to bridge the gap between getting to know someone and then schmoozing and sort of working contacts and business connections.
-- Michael Rady

#Bridges #People #Gaps

An absence of meaning opens a gap in time.
-- Michel de Certeau

#Gaps #Absence

In the gap between thoughts nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.
-- Milarepa

#Shining #Gaps

I'm happy to be on a show that's bridging that gap of 'Okay, I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm a man.'
-- Milo

#Teenager #Men #Gaps

Frentzen is taking, er, reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen.
-- Murray Walker

#Funny #Racing #Gaps

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Eye #Mind #Gaps

When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.
-- Namie Amuro

#Idols #Firefighter #Gaps

I have always loved the gaps, the spaces between things, as much as the things. I love staring, pondering, mulling, puttering. I love the times when someone or something is late-there's that rich possibility of noticing more, in the meantimePoetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.
-- Naomi Shihab Nye

#Space #Gaps #Abundance

The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin in a haystack.
-- Navjot Singh Sidhu

#Gaps #Pins #Findings

The gap between bat and pad is so much that I would have driven a car through it... !!
-- Navjot Singh Sidhu

#Car #Gaps #Pads

In considering God's power, we must not look for a God of the Gaps, a god who is called in for those phenomena for which there is yet no scientific explanation.
-- Nevill Francis Mott

#God #Gaps #Looks

Of course smartphones are brilliant inventions, but the nefarious thing about Twitter and other social media is that it starts to fill all the gaps in your day. I quickly become an addict.
-- Nick Offerman

#Media #Smartphones #Gaps

I perceive a necessary gap between seeing and being. I would not be able to have said certain things if I had been under the obligation to unify the word and the deed. As it is I can let my words reach out and net impossible things - things that are impossible for me to do. And this is a way to pay the price for saying or seeing things.
-- Norman O. Brown

#Deeds #Pay #Gaps

Next to the highest peak of happiness, there’s the deepest gap of pain.
-- Octavian Paler

#Pain #Next #Gaps

The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.
-- Orhan Pamuk

#Compassion #Gaps #Surrender

I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
-- Padmasree Warrior

#Technology #Gaps #Way

The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself is normally unobserved. The chance of enlightenment is missed.
-- Paul Brunton

#Two #Enlightenment #Gaps