Quotes about Gap

Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don't pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.

We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.

I want to finish my race in the Promised Land, not in the wilderness. You too? Then we have to cash in our fear and complacency and spend all we have on the only ticket out: BELIEF. Faith is the only thing that will ever close the gap between our theology and our reality.

Faith is the only thing that will ever close the gap between our theology and our reality.

The biggest gap there is in America is not economic; the gap is spiritual and cultural.

To use infinite agency to close a gap is to rob it of its infinite character.

Yet being with that dissonance is important; it is our soul work. The purpose of our lives is to close the gap between what could be and what too often is.

But most whites in America in 1967, including many persons of goodwill, proceed from a premise that equality is a loose expression for improvement. White America is not even psychologically organized to close the gap—essentially it seeks only to make it less painful and less obvious but in most respects to retain it. Most of the abrasions between Negroes and white liberals arise from this fact.

Yes, in Christianity, the gap that our sin creates between us and God is simply insurmountable. Trying to cross it is like jumping off the Newport Beach pier and trying to leap to Hawaii," he said, gesturing in the general direction of the Pacific Ocean.

And it's frustrating because you've never been taught how to bridge the gap between theory and practice, between your New Year's resolutions and your actual behaviour.

I was walking past the mental hospital the other day, and all the patients were shouting, "13...13...13." The fence was too high to see over, so I looked through a gap to see what was going on. Some idiot poked me in the eye with a stick, and they all started shouting "14...14...14." That's how I learnt to mind my own business!

Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed.