Yes, over the centuries economic progress has reduced some gross disparities - modern Americans are relatively unlikely to simply starve to death (though it can happen), so in that sense the gap between rich and poor has narrowed. But the question isn't whether society is, in some sense, more equal than it was in 1900. It's whether it is radically more unequal than it was in 1970. And of course it is.
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.
With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe.
There was a pause. I was still scared by every gap in our conversation, fearing that this was it, the point where we had nothing left to say. I was still trying to impress you, and I still wanted to be impressed by you, so I could pass along pieces of your impressiveness to my friends, convincing myself this was possible.
The gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred.
I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many.
It's in everyone's best interest to help close the gender gap in the sciences.
The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps. . . so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.
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.
He [Mencken] was an autodidact, with all the misplaced confidence and all the astonishing gaps that characterize that breed. Not many of us would venture to write a book about democracy without ever having read de Tocqueville, nor embark on a translation of Nietzsche with only a sketchy knowledge of German.
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.
We still have gaps that are rooted in gender inequality. Certainly we have discrimination against the LGBT community.
I think I've finally learned to stop worrying about how big the gaps are between my novels' publication.
If there's more that you can do, then do it. If there's not more that you can do, then be content with what you're doing. But if there is despair, the despair can only be that you can do more. Because when you're doing as much as you can do, you will not feel despair. Because despair is the gap between what you could be doing and what you are doing.
You don't have to have a thigh gap to be beautiful
In the area of work and money, we have one of the most intense gaps between fear-based and love-based thought. It's not that a miracle mindset applies to work and money any more than it applies to anything else; rather, it applies there no less than anywhere else.
The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.
Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled.
It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.