Gap Quotes
552 quotes by 495 authors
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Dr. Adler had instructed me to always say whatever I was thinking, but this was difficult for me, for the act of thinking and the…
— Peter Cameron
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In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed so obvious now…
— Ian Mcewan
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We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of…
— Atul Gawande
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There is always a gap between intention and action..
— Paulo Coelho
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Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they…
— Amy Bloom
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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…
— Kiran Desai
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She thought she would know when it happened. But now, as she looked around, she wondered if it was really like that at all. Maybe…
— Ann Brashares
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To fly is the opposite of traveling: you cross a gap in space, you vanish into the void, you accept not being in a place…
— Italo Calvino
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Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free," Jefferson said, "expects what never was and never will be." And if the gap between the…
— David McCullough
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In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's…
— Jodi Picoult
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You’ll get over it…†It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t…
— Jeanette Winterson
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One function of the income gap is that the people at the top of the heap have a hard time even seeing those at the…
— Molly Ivins
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There's one tiny little gap in the universe left, just about to close. And it takes a lot of power to send this projection. I'm…
— Russell T Davies
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The silence between us stretched out, but it wasn't awkward. Sometimes there are people you can be quiet with, and you never feel the need…
— Claudia Gray
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They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months…
— Zadie Smith
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When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.
— Barbara Tuchman
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Well, it's New Year's now but I don't feel that way anymore. I wonder if you do either. Something's happening to me. It's like I'm…
— Sarah Dessen
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Behind their eyes the hope was sickening and in many, dead. They lived from event to event with a subtle terror of the gap between,…
— Clive Barker
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He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him,…
— John Fowles
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What is an adventure? That depends on where you are starting from. Little girls in your country, they hide in the gap between the washing…
— Chris Cleave
Who Wrote These Gap Quotes
495 authors contributed a total of 552 Gap Quotes, led by these top contributors: