Quotes About Gap

Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

There often is a dark secret in books... There is often a gathering sense of dread; there's a gap sometimes in the text from which all kinds of monsters can emerge.

Could you let me hear more, without the usual scientific jargon? All this talk of 'antigravity' and 'antimatter' sounds like scientists' covering up a big, dark, uncomfortable gaping hole in their knowledge and understanding.

Everyday Lucybelle looked for a hairline fracture, a place in the social fabric of not just SIPRE, but Chicago, the whole country, where truth might collect like rain, freeze, and force open the gap. This was the story she wanted to tell, the novel she wanted to write, but first she had to find the chink.

Our work is an ongoing struggle with unintended consequences. We must try to narrow the gap, which is sometimes a gulf, between what we intend and the results we achieve.

None of those things, though, will improve her math and reading skills, and every carefree summer day she spends puts her further and further behind Alex.

Second, the consumption gap between men and women, so pronounced a generation ago, has narrowed considerably—particularly among white women. (The same trends aren't nearly as marked among Asians, Hispanics, or African Americans.) "I think it's an empowerment issue," Fromme argues:

A small businesses ability to gain an edge for a profitable niche is not by just focusing on the dynamic market gap, but by identifying a market within the gap.

It's ONLY with a NEW MINDSET and SWIFT Action that you can span the gap between WHO and WHERE you are, and WHO and WHERE/WHAT you want to BE, DO and HAVE

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

He (Kesri) understood that the gap left by his departure from home had been filled by the continuing flow of their lives.

We did not touch each other. We were both leaning over the abyss.

Even as U.S. policy in recent decades has become progressively militarized, so too has the Vietnam-induced gap separating the U.S. military from American society persisted and perhaps even widened.47

With dozens of course offerings, UCLA's history department doesn't have a single course on the French Revolution, or even a course that would seem to cover Western Europe during that period. There are courses on European history in the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as from 1450 to 1660. And there's a Western Civilization class covering the period up to 1715. But if you want to know what was happening outside of the United States circa 1750 to 1800

Between the idea and the experience there seems to be a certain gulf fixed; we exert all our strength to cross it, in vain. In spite of this, we strive constantly to overcome this gap by means of reason, understanding, imagination, faith, feeling, madness, and, if nothing else will serve, with absurdity.

The gap between what publicity actually offers and the future it promises, corresponds with the gap between what the spectator-buyer feels himself to be and what he would like to be. The two gaps become one; and instead of the single gap being bridged by action or lived experience, it is filled with glamorous daydreams.

In the big picture, life has a gap in it. It just does. You don't go crazy trying to fill it.

He wanted to care, he wanted to care so badly, but there was this gap between what he felt and what he wanted to feel, a space where something important had been carved out.

Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.

There is an enormous abyss between subject and object.

One of the characteristic problems of our time is how to close this gap between capabilities and foresight.

By a similar operation, the write-up of Wholesome Fresh moved me almost to tears. Supposedly open 24 hours, Wholesome Fresh offers pretty much everything your heart desires. Hearty sandwiches. Hot dishes. Sushi. Chocolate Sauce. Paprika. Napkins. There it was, finally on display: the gap between the idea that Wholesome Fresh promulgated about itself, in a naïve or sinister way, and what it felt like to actually be there. What a relief to see it articulated!

Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.