Gaps Quotations

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.

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

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.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

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

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

Because there still exists a significant pay gap, women tend to earn less than men over the course of their lifetimes. Compounding the problem, women tend to spend less time in the workforce than men.

Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention. Sometimes we can't even answer the simplest questions.

We often assume that all teachers within a discipline address the same curriculum. This isn't always the case. We frequently find gaps between goals and what is actually taught, and these gaps can have a lasting impact on a child's learning.

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.

Obama's entire foreign policy was predicated on the notion that by existing, he would bridge all gaps and bury all hatchets. Instead, the Muslim world burns his picture even as he tells them he respects their radicalism. It turns out that diversity is a one-way street for the devotees of global Islam.

The gap between the young people and the rest of society is that... young people don't have hope.

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

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

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.

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.

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.

If I could change my appearance, I would have the gap between my front teeth put back in.

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.'

If you ask me about my success story, the secret is I know when to pull myself back. I don't overexpose myself; I give proper gaps whenever I can. I do not over spend myself, I keep myself busy in lot of activities. I really work hard; I work harder than others, by focussing on my fitness level and studying music.

These people living on the streets could have been friends you once knew. They are people who have somehow fallen through the gaps and found themselves, often through unimaginable circumstances, on the cusp of existence. In another reality, this could easily be me or you.

While closing our innovation gaps won't solve all our problems, we have some very real opportunities to improve the quality of care that's delivered to millions of Americans.

Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider.

Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and there is already a narrative arc. What makes it harder is that you are not free to use your imagination and creativity to fill in any missing gaps within the story.

I always imagined how cool it would be to be the face of a Gap campaign!

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

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.

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.

I'm kind of a builder of institutions. I think I've got some ability to look at what's out here, look at a playing field, and identify gaps and niches.

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

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.

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

I'm fighting to make childcare more affordable for working parents so they can continue working and advancing their careers, closing wage gaps that for too long have held women back from the fair economic opportunities they need.

Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage.

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

We face a dilemma because although everybody is better off than they've ever been at any time in our history, we've also got the biggest gap between the rich and the poor that we've ever had, and we've potentially got a planet which is going to go bust any day.

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

The world's urban poor and the illiterate are going to be increasingly disadvantaged and are in danger of being left behind. The web has added a new dimension to the gap between the first world and the developing world. We have to start talking about a human right to connect.

Just like any other company, Samsung can fail, and if that happens, how will the South Korean economy overcome the shock? If we don't decrease our over-reliance on the chaebols and prepare to let smaller, dynamic start-ups fill the gaps in their place, it won't.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

It is very good to bridge the gaps between Indian and international cinema.

The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin in a haystack.

I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn't speak, because I said I couldn't say the lines.

The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.

It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.

Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don't pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.

Invest in a couple of really good things - a great, classic coat; a good pair of shoes; and a timeless bag - then fill in the gaps with lower-priced pieces.

Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require.

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

Some liberals think that describing any role that education gaps play in creating income inequality is some sort of sellout - that, in essence, you're telling the middle class, 'Tough luck; you should have stayed in college.'

Bigger spreads mean bigger gaps between what buyers pay and sellers receive. For example, a spread of 10 cents a share means that the buyer pays $100 more for 1,000 shares than the seller receives.

There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. The majority consciousness has changed, and often that has made very clear, practical changes in our daily lives, but the centers of power are still not occupied, for the most part, by this new consciousness.

That's what the Affordable Care Act is all about. It's about filling the gaps in employer-based care so that when we lose a job, or go back to school, or start that new business, we'll still have coverage.

We start by looking at our customers' needs, what they currently have and determine where the gaps are. Using our toolkit, we then design, build and deploy a solution that meets those needs. In this increasingly 'on demand' world, Sudden Network Solutions enables us to rapidly and cost-effectively meet our customers' ever-evolving connectivity needs.

What this data shows is that New York has the greatest gaps between wealth and poverty in the country.

What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.

We bowled well as a team but the ball went into gaps and we dropped catches. But if we can get a lead of 200 and bowl as well as we did today we should have a chance.

We're facing a serious crisis that may end up culling some of the very best people out of the biomedical research enterprise. There will be people who lose all funding or have gaps in funding so they can't maintain the infrastructure they've built.

We're into a phase of very hard bargaining. A lot of the underbrush has been cleared away. Some obstacles have been overcome, but significant gaps remain.

We're hoping to fill in some of the gaps of (loan) programs that are already in place.

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 ...

We're still lacking that big hit to knock in those big runs. We're not striking out every time, but we are still looking for the gaps and I think we might just be trying too hard for it.

We are all born with a grab bag of gifts and gaps. Identify your true talents, then find out how to use them to make money.

Whenever I hit a ball in the gap, I'm thinking the extra bases. I never slow down. That's the only way you're going to get triples.

We want to promote understanding and fill in the gaps today or tomorrow.

We have to get people on base. That's what we have to do. We have to get people on base and we have to get the big base hit. We're not doing any of that right now. We also have to start driving the ball to the gaps -- doubles. And we have to start our offense early in the inning rather than waiting for one or two outs. Those are the things we have to do and then things will fall into place. We will score runs. We will have the opportunity to score runs. We will have the opportunity to drive runs in.

We were a strong club. We took on so many holes because of injuries. With those gaps we got to a certain performance level . . .

If I was a Marxist I'd call it the crisis of capitalism. Even though I'm not a Marxist, that seems like a not unreasonable term for the widening gap between the rich and poor that we're seeing ...

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

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

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

The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference. . . .

When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.

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

Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.

The more technological a society is, the greater the security gap is.

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

There are some significant gaps in people's knowledge,

There are gaps in how all these different disciplines integrate, and that's a key focus of this effort.

There are gaps in his timeline that we are concerned about. Nothing outside of Michigan has been confirmed yet.

We hit the ball well tonight. We were finding the gaps and hitting the ball in the right spots. We were really aggressive on the base paths and that really paid off.

What we do know is somewhat reassuring, even if there are significant gaps in his international economic policy resume.

The literary world is so full of pretension, and there's such an enormous gap between how seriously poets take themselves and how widely they're ignored by everybody else.

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.

This project is in a downward spiral, even members of the nuclear industry are looking for other ways to store the waste,and throwing more money at this problem-ridden albatross will not fill gaps in the science because the science is not there.

There are very simple ways to do this. You can literally use your hand and on a cold day, feel the cold air rushing in where you have gaps or leaks.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Seniors provide us with a background of knowledge and experience that in this booming economy, where you can't find workers, they can fill the gaps and make companies whole again.

She subtracted from public knowledge by introducing this unknown source whose name she couldn't remember. It's almost like the gaps in the Nixon tapes.

On an earthen dam, if you don't do maintenance and you have vegetation growth, tree roots penetrate into the soil and then it weakens the soil or creates cracks or gaps where water can seep in.