gap quotes

Far away from where I am now there is a little gap in the hills, and beyond it the sea; and 'tis there I do be looking the whole day long, for it's the nearest thing to yourself that I can see.

-Anonymous
c.1900  Letter from an unidentified Irish postboy to his beloved, quoted in Maurice Healy  The Old Munster Circuit.

The community lacksgoods and a million and a quarter people lack work. It is certainly one of the highest functions of national financeand credittobridgethegap between the two.

- Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill
  Letter to Otto Niemeyer, 22 Feb. Collectedin D E Moggridge Maynard Keynes (1992).

The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.

- Barry Commoner
  'The Closing Circle', in Technology.

One was left, too, with a gap in Christianity: the canonical gospels do not record that Christ laughed or played.Cana man be perfect if henever laughs or plays? Krishna's jokes may be vapid, but they bridge a gap.

- E(dward) M(organ) Forster
  The Hill of Devi,'Gokul  Ashtami'.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

- HenryAlfred Kissinger
  Years of Upheaval.

I'll say, a strangemanisa marvel, with hismighty talk; but what's a squabble in your back-yard, and the blow of a loy, have taught me that there's a great gap between a gallous story and a dirty deed. 834

-John Millington Synge
  Pegeen Mike.The Playboy of theWesternWorld, act 3.

Beyond the gap where the river plunges into the narrow gorge, unseen and the imagination soars, as a voice beckons, a thundrous voice, endless as sleep: the voice that has ineluctably called them that unmoving roar!

-William Carlos Williams
  Paterson, bk.2,'Sunday in the Park',1.