Gaps Quotes
552 quotes by 479 authors
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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
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Once committed to fight, cut. Everything else is secondary. Cut. That is your duty, your purpose, your hunger. There is no rule more important, no…
— Terry Goodkind
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We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us…
— Margaret Atwood
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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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Isn't it true that whatever isn't determined by our genes must be determined by our environment? What else is there? There's Nature and there's Nurture.…
— Daniel Dennett
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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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For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw visions of the…
— Markus Zusak
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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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every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the world—that is, the…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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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 newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but they were awful…
— Margaret Atwood
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