Top 343 Gaps Quotes & Sayings

Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter.

Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those gaps. That those were wrongs done to the black community as a whole, and black families specifically, and that in order to close that gap, a society has a moral obligation to make a large, aggressive investment, even if it's not in the form of individual reparations checks, but in the form of a Marshall Plan, in order to close those gaps. It is easy to make that theoretical argument.

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We've always had big gaps between records.

I am somewhat uncertain whether there is a definite factual question as to whether natural language handles truth-value gaps. Nor am I even quite sure that there is a definite question of fact as to whether natural language should be evaluated by the minimal fixed point or another, given the choice of a scheme for handling gaps. We are not at the moment searching for the correct scheme.

The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself like a once-blind man unbound. The gaps are the clefts in the rock where you cower to see the back parts of God; they are fissures between mountains and cells the wind lances through, the icy narrowing fiords splitting the cliffs of mystery. Go up into the gaps. If you can find them; they shift and vanish too. Stalk the gaps. Squeak into a gap in the soil, turn, and unlock-more than a maple-universe.

The world of fantasy fills the gaps in people's knowledge.

We often assume that all teachers within a discipline address the same curriculum. This isn't always the case. We frequently find gaps between goals and what is actually taught, and these gaps can have a lasting impact on a child's learning.

I am always excited for gaps of time where I can actually hang out with my friends.

The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.

Well, I always leave massive gaps between albums.

By and by... there are more and more gaps of silence. Through those gaps, windows will open to the divine.

For me, it is important to take gaps after finishing a project.

Part of a soldier's duty is to fill gaps...one must be willing to be nothing, as something.

I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.

Practicing discipline involves continually working to find space in our patterns, to find the gaps in the images we hold about ourselves. It also means finding the gaps in our ideas about others, releasing images that we hold about a manager, a coworker, a friend, or a partner.

The imagination is such as powerful tool: suggestion is all you need. People fill in gaps.

The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled.

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.

I realized that there are many people who are very good students, but they think of themselves as bad students. At the end of the day, what they are really missing is way to understand where their gaps are and a way to address those gaps.

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

My mind no longer has romantic abysses, but has become shallow, with many little gaps and cracks.

For me, it is about using everything that is there and using the gaps in the record, figuring out why the gaps might be there. And then when you move on to the level of what historians said, laying the interpretations side by side. You also have to look back at the documents and make your own judgments. What the record says and what people say about it. A novelist can fill the gaps in a way that a biographer cannot.

The Patriot Act closed dangerous gaps in America's law enforcement and intelligence capabilities, gaps that terrorists exploited when they attacked us.

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.

The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing called science, which marches on and makes discoveries in those gaps, ultimately closing gaps.

It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.

The generation gaps are becoming more and more extreme. It used to be a generation gap would be 20-plus years. Now, because technology and specifically communication technology is changing so rapidly, you have generation gaps that are like five years, ten years.

The novelistic attribute of my work is very much like the Russian way of creating novels. Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky - their work has so many gaps. But for the reader, you cannot erase those gaps because they are important. They contextualize the whole struggle. My cinema is like that.

Incremental increases in the minimum wage won't address the underlying skills and investment gaps in Illinois.

So what will define greatness for your generation? I believe it is to use the knowledge that you have earned here to find ways, not only to connect to computers, but to connect to people; not only to bridge gaps in science, but to bridge gaps between cultures; not only to use numbers and formulas to create, but to use words to lead, and in the process, to close that canyon between ignorance and understanding.

We have gaps that are rooted in systemic racism.

I am a hands-on mother, so I take long gaps between films.

Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology.

we lived in the gaps between the stories

God fills the gaps of human need, Each crisis brings its word and deed.

We need to address significant funding gaps when it comes to implementing the SDGs.

The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.

The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.

The tree of life was always there. Evolution just fills in the gaps.

In the centre, you play more with your back to the opponent's goal and have to move into the gaps.

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

The gaps between the forms worry me. I can never get these spaces right.

Usually, you do a shakeup because you know that you have a problem or you gaps and you're going to fill those gaps.

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people's lives present themselves.

There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomenon, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural... we should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance.

Casemiro has to cover the gaps left by the midfielders.

It is very good to bridge the gaps between Indian and international cinema.

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What's the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it's exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That's really cool. That's the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

Sometimes the silences, the gaps, tell us more than anything else.

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

Casemiro has to cover the gaps left by the full-backs.

Innovation: Imagine the future and fill in the gaps.

Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled.

The gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss into which mankind can fall to annihilation.

Congress has become so dysfunctional that more and more of a burden is placed on the agencies to fill in the gaps. And the gaps get bigger and bigger because they're not constantly refreshed and tweaked.

Kindness is a steeling feeling that has a power of filling the gaps in relationships by stealing hearts.

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 ignorance). Yet without some restriction on the use of chance, scientists are in danger of committing a logically equivalent fallacy-one we may call the “chance-of-the-gaps fallacy.” Chance, like God, can become a stop-gap for ignorance.

There's so many relationships in Hollywood - and in the history of the world - where people have large age gaps.