Gap Quotes
552 quotes by 495 authors
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Would you like a whiskey?' I say. 'I've got some.' (That's original. I bet nobody's ever thought of that way of bridging the gap before.)
— Jean Rhys
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He would read up on parenting, if he thought it would help, but his errors always seemed too basic for the manuals. "Always tell your…
— Nick Hornby
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Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.
— Oprah Winfrey
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It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded being afraid. It was as…
— Katherine Paterson
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A life without pain: it was the very thing I had dreamed of for years, but now that I had it, I couldn’t find a…
— Haruki Murakami
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Creationists eagerly seek a gap in present-day knowledge or understanding. If an apparent gap is found, it is assumed that God, by default, must fill…
— Richard Dawkins
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The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality,…
— Gilles Deleuze
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It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.
— Gabrielle Zevin
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But as surely as the moon rises and the sun sets, depravity passes down through the ages, because there is always a gap between who…
— Chris Adrian
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See, Cameron. The only things I care about in this life are me, you, Mum, Dad, Steve and Sarah. And maybe Miffy. The rest of…
— Markus Zusak
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I turned to leave and paused before the gap in the ruined wall. "One last thing, Your Majesty. I'd like a name I can put…
— Ilona Andrews
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Where there is a lack of other connections, of meaningful moments, in our lives, music can often full the gap.
— Sena Jeter Naslund
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The concept of downsizing so that others might upgrade is biblical, beautiful...and nearly unheard of. We either close the gap or don't take the words…
— Francis Chan
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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…
— Tsugumi Ohba
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It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and you memorize the…
— Steve Almond
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I liked his voice, rich and unself-conscious even when he forgot words and hummed to fill in the gap. What I didn't understand, I imagined,…
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker around me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the great constellation, The place where…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Greenspan's eventual explanation for the growing gap between stock prices and actual productivity was that, fortuitously, the laws of nature had changed -- humanity had…
— Matt Taibbi
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Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for…
— William A. Dembski
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We may now have reached a point where this gap in our make-up has become unsustainable; partly because what in the past would have counted…
— Dalai Lama
Who Wrote These Gap Quotes
495 authors contributed a total of 552 Gap Quotes, led by these top contributors: