Gaps Quotes - Page 2

• I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.

  Julie Harris

  Clothes, Generations, Modern

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

  Amos Oz

  Party, Labor

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• While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Women, Past, Years

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• With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.

  Zach Wamp

  Military, Responsibility, Thinking

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

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Bridges, Vision, Duty

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• 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

  Philosophy, Commitment, America

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• If we do nothing, as the Republicans suggest, we're going to see health care costs reach a point where small businesses can't afford it and families can't afford it. We're going to see people turned down from pre-existing conditions. We're going to find the Medicare doughnut hole - a gap in coverage that's going to hurt a lot of seniors.

  Dick Durbin

  Senior, Hurt, People

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• 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.

  Steve Israel

  Men, Pay Gap, Problem

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• 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, Employers

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• Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere.

  Douglas Coupland

  Looks, Like You, Clothings

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• For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

  Richard Cobden

  Credibility, Gullibility

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• We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.

  Barbara Jordan

  Positive, Believe, Reality

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• 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, Sahara

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.132, A&C Black

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• Country radio went through a time where they were trying to pigeonhole everybody, and trying to make the gap really narrow, and I think that they've opened that up a little bit.

  Tim McGraw

  Country, Thinking, Trying

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

  Marguerite Duras

  Alcohol, Psychological, Folly

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.17, Grove Press

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• The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Leadership, Sports

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.38, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.

  Samuel West

  Book, Writing, Two

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• 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

  House, Quality, Citizens

  "The International Herald Tribune" (Paris), June 18, 1991.

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• We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.

  Bruce Vento

  Bridges, Focus, Library

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• This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

  Hortense Calisher

  Success, Writing, Ideas

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “Herself: An Autobiographical Work”, p.62, Open Road Media

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• The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are already powerful and keeping everyone else back is a recipe for endless misery and conflict.

  Robert Wyatt

  Powerful, Building Up, Ideas

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 14, 2014.

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

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Pins, Findings, Indian

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• Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.

  Mitt Romney

  Children, Race, Achievement

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• Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.

  Frank Dobson

  People, Smoking, Dying

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• Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.

  Richard Codey

  Dog, Years, Tails

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