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In considering God's power, we must not look for a God of the Gaps, a god who is called in for those phenomena for which there is yet no scientific explanation. -- Nevill Francis Mott
Gaps can be very emotional. I mean, that's in my drumming. When I drum, you know, I don't need to drum all over the track. I play with the singer and I can back off. -- Ringo Starr
Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/ as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest maps. -- Kay Ryan
Because there is that sort of feeling that people don't know what to do with gaps in their lives. It's a scary notion, but actually, if you can stand in space just for a little while, a new door will open, or you'll be able to see in the dark after a while. You'll adjust. -- Jane Campion
The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence. -- Kathleen Turner
The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin in a haystack. -- Navjot Singh Sidhu
It is very good to bridge the gaps between Indian and international cinema. -- Anurag Kashyap
The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision. -- Henry A. Kissinger
I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up. -- Joss Stone
I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators. -- Margaret Spellings
We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere. -- Major Owens
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say. -- Ramsey Clark
A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself. -- Criss Jami
Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage. -- Atul Gawande
Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider. -- Mitch Kapor
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man. -- James Dean
My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name of 'god of the gaps'. -- Brian Greene
While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions. -- Ginny Brown-Waite
While closing our innovation gaps won't solve all our problems, we have some very real opportunities to improve the quality of care that's delivered to millions of Americans. -- Kathleen Sebelius
America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments. -- Jeffrey Sachs
We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that. -- Barbara Jordan
Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities. -- Douglas Coupland
Then there are the people who know me from the lectures. What I am really trying to do, what I need to accomplish at this time, is to fill in the gaps. -- Suzanne Somers
Country radio went through a time where they were trying to pigeonhole everybody, and trying to make the gap really narrow, and I think that they've opened that up a little bit. -- Tim McGraw
With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life. -- Zack Wamp
Sometimes legends find themselves remembered more for what they have not done than for their accomplishments. But those resume gaps can also help drive them to achieve even greater things in new arenas. -- Don Yaeger
During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed. -- Jonathan Kozol
In the East there is a gap between the top of a wall and underside of a roof; it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished. -- Stephen Gardiner
I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared. -- Sonia Sotomayor
I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can. -- Eddie Izzard
I'm fighting to make childcare more affordable for working parents so they can continue working and advancing their careers, closing wage gaps that for too long have held women back from the fair economic opportunities they need. -- Kirsten Gillibrand
There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force. -- Ted Stevens
I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap. -- Margaret Spellings
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. -- George Orwell
It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that. -- Barry Zito
Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. -- Christopher Nolan
Each country is different. Keep an open mind, and you will able to find where the niche entry level lies - the areas where there are gaps. You have to keep an ear to the ground, and you can find a business opportunity. -- Binod Chaudhary
We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about. -- Margaret Spellings
The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish. -- Donald Knuth
Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks. -- Samuel West
One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security. -- Anna Lindh
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. -- Marguerite Duras
In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
We take it for granted sometimes that certain parts of our history are told, and we take it for granted that we know all that stuff, and we move forward along on that basis, but there are also massive gaps, and we have to try to address them. -- Chiwetel Ejiofor
I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the things for which we don't always have a name, and the things that are not easy to articulate - the difference between what we think and how we feel. -- Amy Bloom
At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin. -- Rita Levi-Montalcini
What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop. -- Bono
Obama's entire foreign policy was predicated on the notion that by existing, he would bridge all gaps and bury all hatchets. Instead, the Muslim world burns his picture even as he tells them he respects their radicalism. It turns out that diversity is a one-way street for the devotees of global Islam. -- Ben Shapiro
I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them. -- Ringo Starr
Irish writing is so strong that it can feel like the country has all been covered, but in fact, there are so many gaps. The small west of Ireland cities and the working classes there have almost never appeared in Irish literature, simply because those communities were never in the way of producing books. -- Kevin Barry
The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all these other missing links to connect to the new discovery. The gaps and questions actually increase - it's extraordinary. -- David Attenborough
If you ask me about my success story, the secret is I know when to pull myself back. I don't overexpose myself; I give proper gaps whenever I can. I do not over spend myself, I keep myself busy in lot of activities. I really work hard; I work harder than others, by focussing on my fitness level and studying music. -- Sonu Nigam
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. -- Matthew McConaughey
Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology. -- Elise M. Boulding
we lived in the gaps between the stories -- Margaret Atwood
Build gaps in your life. Pauses. Proper pauses. -- Thom Yorke
We have gaps that are rooted in systemic racism. -- Hillary Clinton
Innovation: Imagine the future and fill in the gaps. -- Brian Halligan
The world of fantasy fills the gaps in people's knowledge. -- Fred Vargas
Sometimes the silences, the gaps, tell us more than anything else. -- Peter Ackroyd
It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes. -- Haruki Murakami
Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter. -- Mason Cooley
The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters. -- Christopher Paolini
God fills the gaps of human need, Each crisis brings its word and deed. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
The gaps between the forms worry me. I can never get these spaces right... -- Paula Rego
The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider. -- Anna Lindh
As your reputation gets bigger, the gaps and chances to go through them get smaller. -- William Aitken
Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps. -- James Heckman
Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps. -- James Geary
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps. -- Jorge Luis Borges
The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled. -- Paulo Coelho
For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists. -- Sara Sheridan
My mind no longer has romantic abysses, but has become shallow, with many little gaps and cracks. -- Mason Cooley
The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge. -- John Darnielle
Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I am always excited for gaps of time where I can actually hang out with my friends. -- Girl Talk
Part of a soldier's duty is to fill gaps...one must be willing to be nothing, as something. -- Amy Carmichael
We still have gaps that are rooted in gender inequality. Certainly we have discrimination against the LGBT community. -- Hillary Clinton
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. -- Marguerite Duras
I think I've finally learned to stop worrying about how big the gaps are between my novels' publication. -- Justine Larbalestier
Kindness is a steeling feeling that has a power of filling the gaps in relationships by stealing hearts." -- Anuj Somany
Kindness is a steeling feeling that has a power of filling the gaps in relationships by stealing hearts. -- Anuj
Art is a way of freezing time, or extending time. ... It's another way to bridge the gaps between us. -- Sarah Ruhl
Misfoutune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the breif gaps between distaters. -- Christopher Paolini
Where I'm living is not a storybook world. It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes. -- Haruki Murakami
I know that gaps can be closed. And they can be closed substantially, more than I think we believe. -- Barack Obama
It's a particular skill, I think, doing backing vocals. You're blending the vocals between the gaps, between the music. -- Lisa Hannigan
By and by... there are more and more gaps of silence. Through those gaps, windows will open to the divine. -- Rajneesh
Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing. -- Peter Hook
With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe. -- Heinrich Heine
Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information. -- Taryn Simon
The Patriot Act closed dangerous gaps in America's law enforcement and intelligence capabilities, gaps that terrorists exploited when they attacked us. -- George W. Bush
So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns -- Jonathan Swift
Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand. -- Dan Brown
Reality also is that there are a lot of gaps, there are a lot of business in between the iconic things. -- Adam Shankman
Creativity in all forms of life, from arts to business to domestic situations, depends on our ability to recognize and explore gaps -- Itay Talgam
I've never really considered myself a home run hitter. Mostly I'm a guy who hits into the gaps for a lot of doubles. -- Mike Lowell
The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact. -- Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past. -- Jon Krakauer
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
The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in. -- Dylan Thomas
If we don't rebuild that connection with people we will really find even bigger gaps, because our gap on inequality is not just economic. -- Hillary Clinton
I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life. -- George MacDonald
I grew up with music hall and revue and was used to filling in the little gaps here and there to get bigger audience reaction. -- Ron Moody
How we choose to deal with pain is ultimately the measure of who we are and of the success we have in closing our gaps. -- Hyrum W. Smith
Creativity is the process of sensing problems or gaps in information, then identifying the difficulties and seeking solutions through trial and error or through forming hypotheses. -- Ellis Paul Torrance
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I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in. -- Alec Soth
There's tonnes of room for more people in the tech market, and there are lots of content gaps that have still not yet been tapped into. -- Jon Oringer
I don't really look at myself as a power hitter. I look at myself as someone who drives the ball to the gaps, hits line drives. -- Andrew McCutchen
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. -- Edgar Mitchell
New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the new cannot penetrate. -- Joan Robinson
Many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I feared. Page 135 -- Sonia Sotomayor
A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts. -- Alberto Manguel
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
CRATEL is a center with a two-fold mission - to explore technology as an expressive element and to use technology to bridge gaps between diverse groups of people. -- John Harrison
And, even if Affirmative Action survives, it is also clear that these policies are not themselves sufficient to close the educational and employment gaps that plague U.S. minorities. -- Harry J. Holzer
I am constantly hustling and finding new things. You try to manage so you don't look back and see huge gaps of time that you missed with your family. -- James Marsden
I'm kind of a builder of institutions. I think I've got some ability to look at what's out here, look at a playing field, and identify gaps and niches. -- David Brock

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