Gaps Quotes - Page 33

• Our thoughts, our language, are always at a distance from whatever they're trying to describe. We have other kinds of languages, like mathematics, like music, like art, but there's always that gap.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Art, Distance, Trying

  Source: www.motherjones.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia. It is the crack between the last golden rays of summer and the dark of winter; the delicately balanced tweak of the year before it is given over entirely to the dark; a time for the souls of the departed to squint, to peek and perhaps to travel through the gap. What could be more thrilling and worthy of celebration than that? It is a time to celebrate sweet bounty, as the harvest is brought in. It is a time of excitement and pleasure for children before the dark sets in. We should all celebrate that.

  Jenny Colgan

  Summer, Sweet, Children

  14 Copy quote

• The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination.

  Gaetano Salvemini

  Jigsaw Puzzles, History, Imagination

  11 Copy quote

• So while it is true that children are exposed to more information and a greater variety of experiences than were children of the past, it does not follow that they automatically become more sophisticated. We always know much more than we understand, and with the torrent of information to which young people are exposed, the gap between knowing and understanding, between experience and learning, has become even greater than it was in the past.

  David Elkind

  Education, Children, Past

  7 Copy quote

• My work on prime gaps lead to lots of media coverage, some good, some bad, some ugly, and some merely ridiculous. For example, a reporter of our university newspaper, who admitted that he is still learning English, wrote that "Prof. Goldston solved one of the most controversial problems in the prime number theory last month with support from his Turkish partner."

  Daniel Goldston

  Science, Media, Numbers

  6 Copy quote

• The criminal-justice system is, obviously, the sole source of racial tension in this country [USA] or the key institution to resolving the opportunity gap. It is a part of the broader set of challenges that we face in creating a more perfect union.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Opportunity, Keys

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Biblical higher criticism is preserved in the particular enclave of academic Christian scholarship and is thought to be too unfruitful to share with the average pew-sitter, for it raises more questions than the church can adequately answer. So the leaders of the church would protect the simple believers from concepts they were not trained to understand. In this way that ever-widening gap between academic Christians and the average pew-sitter made its first appearance.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Biblical, Simple

  4 Copy quote

• Hence the Bible has no record of his years of preparation; the record is very abrupt. Something about his childhood is said, very fragmentary. And only once is he mentioned: when he was twelve years of age and he started arguing with the priests in the temple - that's all. Then there is a gap of eighteen years... nothing is mentioned.

  Rajneesh

  Jesus, Years, Childhood

  4 Copy quote

• What happens when you speak positively? When you speak positively there is no negative left to express and then there's a gap. And that gap creates the super-positive. And that, in English, is what we call God. Therefore, cultivate the attitude of gratitude. The attitude of gratitude is when you are grateful for every breath of life.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Gratitude, Attitude, Grateful

  4 Copy quote

• The program grew out of a desire to address a gap identified after 9/11 ... The program does not involve the NSA examining the phone records of ordinary Americans. Rather, it consolidates these records into a database that the government can query if it has a specific lead - phone records that the companies already retain for business purposes.

  Barack Obama

  Phones, Government, Nsa

  7 Copy quote

• I live at Gap Kids; I think they have the cutest stuff. I barely buy anything for myself, but my daughter has quite the collection.

  Joanna Garcia

  Daughter, Kids, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Djuna Barnes

  Bridges, Potatoes, Heat

  Djuna Barnes (1996). “Collected Stories”, Sun and Moon Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a shortage of gaps in people's knowledge.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  People, Today, Spirituality

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  Learning, Doe, Demand

  7 Copy quote

• When a writer with a voice as good as Richard Christian Matheson's tells you something, you have no choice but to listen. In THE RITUAL OF ILLUSION the voices are legion, and the gaps between their testimonies drag us closer to understanding the darkly beating heart of all our, ephemeral, transfixing dreams. Dark, subtle, horrifically funny.

  Michael Marshall Smith

  Christian, Dream, Heart

  7 Copy quote

• Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.

  Cate Blanchett

  Dream, Distance, Mind

  26 Copy quote

• By meditation we try to slow down the mechanism of projections. If the mechanism is slowed down and even for a single moment you begin to be aware of the gap - imageless gap of the screen - you have the glimpse. Suddenly you know that you have lived in the dreams of your own creation; and whatsoever you have known as the world was not the world really, it was YOUR world.

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Single Mom, Meditation

  4 Copy quote

• Real music will make you more and more refined. It will become more and more silent. In fact, real music will help you to listen to silence, where all notes disappear, where only gaps remain. One note comes, disappears, and another has not come, and there is a gap. In that gap meditation flows in you.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Silence, Meditation

  4 Copy quote

• One can never be too rich or too thin' is an aphorism attributed to the Duchess of Windsor. Being both rich and thin is a difficult enterprise, indeed almost unprecedented as an ideal. Into the paradoxical gap between the capacity to spend money and the need to eat less steps a brilliant solution: 'light' food. In buying 'light' food we can pay more for what costs less to produce in the first place.

  Margaret Visser

  Light, Needs, Cost

  Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.109, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In English, we don't have a word for people who aren't virgins. What the non-virgin lexical gap really made me think was that our obsession with sexual purity is such that once you are no longer this THING, you are indescribable.

  John Green

  Sex, Thinking, People

  14 Copy quote

• It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One attempts by a superhuman effort to fill the gap, to leap over it, to finish it in another medium. And one creates a third and separate thing: 'Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. But he discovered America.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Adventure, Artist, America

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

  James Russell Lowell

  Past, Men, Forever

  "The poetical works of John Keats. With a memoir, by James Russell Lowell" by John Keats, James Russell Lowell, New York: J. Miller, 1871.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• A way has to be found to enable everyone to benefit from the fruits of the earth, and not simply to close the gap between the affluent and those who must be satisfied with the crumbs falling from the table, but above all to satisfy the demands of justice, fairness and respect for every human being.

  Pope Francis

  Fall, Justice, Poverty

  12 Copy quote

• Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.

  James Heckman

  Creating, Play, Roles

  11 Copy quote

• If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

  Ross Kemp

  Together, Groups, Growing

  "60 SECONDS: Ross Kemp". Interview with Andrew Williams, metro.co.uk. September 17, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source