The Gap Between Quotes

#1. Natural gas is a very flexible source of energy that can help us bridge the gap between our current high-carbon economy and our zero-carbon future.

Katharine Hayhoe

#2. When I was 18, I was halfway up the Eiffel Tower with my friend, Tom, when we decided to stick our heads through the railings. The gap between the railings was exactly the right size to be able to put your head through and nearly get stuck. Which is exactly what happened.

Robert Webb

#3. What is the "Once upon a time" of your brand story? Ask yourself this: "How does what I'm building help consumers close the gap between who they are today and who they want to be tomorrow?

Laura Busche

#4. During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.

Jonathan Kozol

#5. The gap between what is popular and what is righteous is widening.

James E. Faust

#6. Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.

Charles Ray

#7. With clothing being designed that allows you to be hugged virtually, video conferencing becoming ever sharper, and our social and romantic lives increasingly taking place online, the gap between the physical and the virtual is getting ever smaller.

Noreena Hertz

#8. One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that even if the amount of knowledge in the world is increasing, the gap between what we know and what we think we know may be widening.

Nate Silver

#9. If the schooling system does not rapidly close the gap between what it does, and what it should do in response to the demands of the 21st century, it will simply become irrelevant.

David Hood

#10. That is what the taste of blood does. It takes away the gap between thought and action.To think is to do. There is no unlived life inside you as the air speeds past your body, as you look down at the dreary villages and market towns ...

Matt Haig

#11. You killed him."
I held up my index finger and my thumb, slowly closing the gap between them, peering over at Dre through the tiny slit that remained. "Little bit."
"I don't think you can kill someone a little bit."
"Oh, well then, a lot bit. I killed him a lot bit.

T.M. Frazier

#12. I'm always interested in very, very futuristic music and bridging the gap between the physicality of organic guitar music and trying to translate that into something electronic is really fascinating.

Justin Broadrick

#13. I don't totally believe that all of the politicians see a problem with the gap between the scores of black children and other groups. I believe that many politicians think this has been the way it has always been, so what's the problem?

Barry Williams

#14. In the gap between who we wish one day to be
and who we are at present,
must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.

Alain De Botton

#15. He slowly lowered his arms. The look on his face reached out and wrapped her in a warm embrace of love. He got to his feet and held out his hand. She closed the gap between them and buried her face in his chest. His arms enfolded her.

Melanie Dickerson

#16. There was a sudden stillness like the gap between ticks on a clock, but the next tick never coming.

Sadie Jones

#17. I think in many ways what my films are about is that search for my grandpa's dentures: for that humanizing narrative that bridges the gap between "us" and "them" to arrive at a "we."

Brian Lindstrom

#18. Never before has the gap between what we can imagine and what we can accomplish been smaller.

Gary Hamel

#19. But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.

Howard Zinn

#20. God is expecting us to stand in the gap between the dying earth and the heavens, for the will of God to be done on earth like it is in heaven

Sunday Adelaja

#21. And it's frustrating because you've never been taught how to bridge the gap between theory and practice, between your New Year's resolutions and your actual behaviour.

Aldous Huxley

#22. No, what's troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics
the ease with which we are distracted by the petty and trivial, our chronic avoidance of tough decisions, our seeming inability to build a working concensus to tackle any big problem.

Barack Obama

#23. Competing loves are detected in the gap between saying and doing.

James MacDonald

#24. Crime, especially crime involving money, reflects the gap between the expectation to provide and the ability to provide ... If we really want men to commit crime as infrequently as women, we can start by not expecting men to provide for women more than we expect women to provide for men.

Warren Farrell

#25. Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval.

Vladimir Nabokov

#26. The gap between our real power and what people expect from us is the source of the most difficult pressure any head of state has to manage.

Moises Naim

#27. It's the role of narrative to... bridge the gap between philosophy as abstract theory, ideas in the ether, and life as lived on the ground.

Jacob M. Held

#28. When he describes woman, each writer discloses his general ethics and the special idea he has of himself; and in her he often betrays also the gap between his world view and his egotistical dreams.

Simone De Beauvoir

#29. The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.

Jeremy Hardy

#30. The drive to close the gap between near-perfect and perfect is the difference between great and unstoppable.

Tim S. Grover

#31. It is easier to bridge the oceans that lie between continents than it is to bridge the gap between individuals or the peoples.

Mahatma Gandhi

#32. The Self is not in the realm of thought. The Self is in the gap between our thoughts. The cosmic psyche whispers to us softly in the gap between our thoughts.

Deepak Chopra

#33. The gap between what one knows and what one thinks one knows may be higher in the ranks of the elite. The result is supposedly-clever government interventions, introduced with excessive confidence, leading to disastrous results.

Arnold Kling

#34. Not for the first time in his life he felt himself fall into the gap between felings and their articulation in language.

Neel Mukherjee

#35. Jesus is the only way because the Bible says it to be true. Why? Because only He can bridge the gap between God and man; there's no other way.

Norman Geisler

#36. The first eight years of schooling was with all white people. So that helped me to understand how white people think. I think that transition is what helped me bridge the gap, because that's what my success has really been about: bridging the gap between the black community and the white community.

Will Smith

#37. Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world we know, and suggests a world beyond what we can see. Creativity is the gap between perception and knowledge.

Emmet Gowin

#38. I like to blow up this notion that all we have to do as writers and artists is represent reality, which is presumably solid and self-evident, with no negotiation of the gap between myself and the world, between this body and this space, which needs narration to close it.

Aleksandar Hemon

#39. The gap between understanding and misunderstanding can best be bridged by thought!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#40. His smoke eyes lighten as she closes the gap between them, and he slowly seals it wrapping his arms about her.

Solange Nicole

#41. 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.

Tavis Smiley

#42. Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the gap between the actual and the virtual will enable to to experience, if not a genuine poem - no such thing - a place for the genuine, whatever that might mean.

Ben Lerner

#43. The essence of death is discovered in the gap between one moment ceasing and another one beginning. That essence is the wakefulness that is our true nature.

Enza Vita

#44. Hypocrisy is our friend. Power structures have to pretend to hold values in order to win the loyalty of at least some of society. We can use the gap between those professed values and reality to move people to try to change the reality towards the values.

Justin Podur

#45. The secret to #success lies in the gap between dream and reality.

Bret Michaels

#46. There are going to be times when you learn more about the world you're entering and feel defeated when you see the gap between the ideal and the reality ... But that's something we'll all face. The people that face those obstacles and overcome them are people whose dreams come true.

Tsugumi Ohba

#47. I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#48. Without subtext you have a flat, linear world; everything is literal, everything spoken is meant. With subtext the writer is able to access the gap between language and thought, and

John Yorke

#49. Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir.

Olivia Wilde

#50. I believe that people, more often than not, act with the best possible intentions. And when they don't, that's funny to me. That's why comedy ends up seeming cynical, because you're talking about the gap between what people say and what they do.

Stephen Colbert

#51. Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature, bridge the gap between ancient wisdom and modern science, and reconcile the differences between Eastern spirituality and Western pragmatism.

Stanislav Grof

#52. My distinguishing feature is the gap between my teeth. I had to wear a brace because my teeth used to stick out like guns from a fortress.

Jane Birkin

#53. When we're determined to reach an objective, it's the gap between where we are and where we aspire to be that lights a fire under us.

Adam M. Grant

#54. Most people have some means of filling up the gap between perception and reality, and, after all, in those circumstances there are far worse things than gin.

Terry Pratchett

#55. It's ONLY with a NEW MINDSET and a 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

Tony Dovale

#56. Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#57. Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.

Alison Jackson

#58. Possibly the greatest waste in life is the gap between what you are and what you could become.

Zig Ziglar

#59. Social change occurs when the gap between the ideals that people hold and the reality that they see every day gets too large.

Robert Reich

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

Thandie Newton

#61. Enforcement alone does not work. Unless we address the gap between our immigration laws and reality, illegal immigration will not stop and the situation on the border will continue to be chaotic.

Harry Reid

#62. She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.

Susan Wiggs

#63. The gap between thought and action, between belief and will, prevents us solving our most pressing individual and societal problems.

Paul Gibbons

#64. Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself.

Kiran Desai

#65. Lives Matter" - Those that serve our country matter. Lets be part of the solution to bridge the gap between law enforcement and the community. Change the Atmosphere, Change the Outcome!

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#66. My whole background was with bands, so I always thought of "fashion" as performative. It took me a long time to bridge the gap between my music and what I was studying in school, [which was] dance and being a performer.

Le1f

#67. Everyone was talking about the gap between my teeth, my monocle, the fancy waistcoats I wore and the seven-inch cigarette holders I used

Terry-Thomas

#68. Mental health is based on a certain degree of tension, the tension between what one has already achieved and what one still ought to accomplish, or the gap between what one is and what one should become.

Viktor E. Frankl

#69. Beware of the gap. The gap between where you are and where you want to be. Simply thinking of the gap widens it. And you end up falling through.

Matt Haig

#70. There is a magical dream that fills the gap between birth and death; we call it life.

Debasish Mridha

#71. The gap between vision and current reality is also a source of energy. If there were no gap, there would be no need for any action to move towards the vision. We call this gap creative tension.

Peter Senge

#72. The gap between current conditions and your future vision should be your focus

Tony Jeary

#73. The gap between a dumb and a clever person may appear large from an anthropocentric perspective, yet in a less parochial view the two have nearly indistinguishable minds.

Nick Bostrom

#74. The way I regard those who hurt me today will affect how I experience the world in the future. In any encounter, we have a choice: we can strengthen our resentment or our understanding and empathy. We can widen the gap between ourselves and others or lessen it.

Pema Chodron

#75. Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.

Jeffrey Sachs

#76. Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world because He is the only One who can bridge the gap between Heaven and earth. The Bible says, "By one Man's obedience many will be made righteous" (Romans 5:19 NKJV).

Billy Graham

#77. Why are the police REALLY having trouble recruiting officers - especially Black officers? We have to bridge the gap between community and law enforcement.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#78. It unnerved her, the gap between who he appeared to be and the person he held inside him.

Lauren Groff

#79. You see, calling things by their proper names is the beginning of wisdom. That's a Chinese proverb and they invented writing. The wisdom, in case you're wondering, is that when you get names right, you narrow the gap between you and the thing.

Zia Haider Rahman

#80. Writing bridges the gap between the subconscious and conscious mind.

Stephen Covey

#81. 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

#82. 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

#83. Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others, but only widen it.

Mason Cooley

#84. Music fills the gap between the conscious and the subconscious mind with endless joy and bliss.

Debasish Mridha

#85. She remembers an eerily young Sean Connery, in that first James Bond film, using fine clear Scottish spit to paste one of his gorgeous black hairs across the gap between the jamb and the door of his hotel room.

William Gibson

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

Ramsey Clark

#87. She looked at the people around her and felt not just that she was surrounded by strangers, but that she herself was strange, somehow, that something kept her from ever fully bridging the gap between who she was and who all these other people, making their way through the very same day, were.

Daphne Kalotay

#88. If a man can bridge the gap between life and death,if he can live after he's died, then maybe he was a great man. Immortality is the only true success.

James Dean

#89. I think the gap between Israelis and Palestinians is too deep to be bridged in our generation. Politically, we are in favor of a regional solution. A part of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) should be annexed by Israel, and the other parts should be incorporated in a confederation with Jordan.

Ayelet Shaked

#90. Today, many women of faith are conflicted. We are moving away from the church and formalized Christianity in record numbers because of the gap between patriarchal doctrine and our real lives.

Jennifer Crumpton

#91. 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

#92. A person's memories and their actual experiences are surprisingly different. Sometimes the gap between them causes pain. But the memories that make the biggest impression are always changing. So it's okay.

Sakura Tsukuba

#93. Some people say I would love to take a selfie with Moses. Do you understand the gap between Moses and God?

Francis Chan

#94. I want so desperately to bridge the gap between our bodies. I want to press my lips to every part of him and I want to savor the scent of his skin, the strength in his limbs, in his heart. I want to wrap myself in the warmth and reassurance I've come to rely on.

Tahereh Mafi

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

John Sweeney

#96. If I can make an impact, I want to help some kids and bridge the gap between soccer and celebrity in America.

Ethan Zohn

#97. It slowly dawns on me what it is, the sensation that has bridged the gap between how I saw the world yesterday and how I see it today. It compensates for my lost keenness and even makes everything around me a little brighter.
Hope.

Jessica Khoury

#98. Skill is how you close the gap between what you can see in your mind's eye and what you can produce; the more skill you have, the more sophisticated and accomplished your ideas can be. With absolute skill comes absolute confidence.

Twyla Tharp

#99. People who suffer from anxiety are very good at hiding it. That can often be a contributor to the anxiety because the gap between the internal perception and the external impression can feel so large.

Scott Stossel

#100. I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.

Richard Rogers