Gap Quotes

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

People didn't know the difference between a blue line and a clothes line.

We must close the digital divide.

When I do a remix, I try to think about what I don't have in my bag and create something to fill that gap.

I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.

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.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.

I do feel that I'm talking to someone who's in a totally different place from where I was when I started modeling. I was fortunate enough to have the wonderful designers and amazing photographers around me, and editors that I knew, and if I wanted to ask a question, I asked them. So that gap has broadened a bit.

I don't know how many times I heard older people, and not just parents but just older people, say, 'Oh, my God. Your generation is just totally nuts. You have no sense of what it was really like, when it was great.' And every generation has that same feeling, you know?

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.

For me, as I was growing up, I studied architecture, I was into music, and I always felt that there was a gap between the things that I loved and consumed and who made them and how they made them.

What excites me about picture books is the gap between pictures and words. Sometimes the pictures can tell a slightly different story or tell more about the story, about how someone is thinking or feeling.

The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept apart—idea of thing, reality of thing—the wider the width, the deeper the depth, the thicker and darker the darkness.

I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.

Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.

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

There's no emotion. I just see the gap and, instinctively, go for it.

Fairness is a central issue, Greely said. What if some people have access to the technology and others don't? There will certainly be international disparities, and possibly national ones as well.

There are certainly days that we can convince ourselves in Washington that everybody's talking about one thing, and then I'll go home to my district and realize that everybody's actually talking about something different.

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.

Speaking of happy successes, after years of struggling to lose those few extra pounds every mother puts on during adoption, particularly when the doctor orders bed rest, in 2004 I sent my assistant to the Gap in dark glasses with a fake ID to purchase my first pair of Easy Fit jeans.

There is two feet of space between us, and about a mile of separation.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.