Social Gaps Quotes & Sayings

I know I'm not being fair to you here. I know I should let you move on. But I can't. I'll do anything to be with you for a much time as I can. Anything you ask. — R.K. Lilley

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. — William Wordsworth

The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, Oh, just let me enjoy the poem. — Robert Penn Warren

I not only feel better about myself because these people are also fucked up (and I guess this gives us a sense of community), but I feel better because look how much these fellow fuckups managed to accomplish! — Carrie Fisher

You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. — Roald Dahl

Life is divided into three parts: what was, what is and what shall be. Of these three periods, the present is short, the future is doubtful and the past alone is certain. — Seneca.

Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation. — Edith Wharton

There is no progress without risk, and in an environment where change is accelerating, risks are multiplying and businesses are increasingly complex, companies need strong, innovative partners to help manage their risk. Our brand clearly sets XL apart as the strong, innovative partner needed in today's market. — Mike McGavick

Introspection makes our conscious motives and strategies transparent to us, while we have no sure means of deciphering them in others. Yet we never genuinely know our true selves. We remain largely ignorant of the actual unconscious determinants of our behavior, and therefore we cannot accurately predict what our behavior will be in circumstances beyond the safety zone of our past experience. The Greek motto "Know thyself," when applied to the minute details of our behavior, remains an inaccessible ideal. Our "self" is just a database that gets filled in through our social experiences, in the same format with which we attempt to understand other minds, and therefore it is just as likely to include glaring gaps, misunderstandings, and delusions. — Stanislas Dehaene

We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do. — Valerie Harper

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. — Les Brown

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach. — Paulo Coelho

By space the universe encompasses me and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world. — Blaise Pascal

Of course smartphones are brilliant inventions, but the nefarious thing about Twitter and other social media is that it starts to fill all the gaps in your day. I quickly become an addict. — Nick Offerman

One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide. — Raymond Williams

Social change occurs when the gap between the ideals that people hold and the reality that they see every day gets too large. — Robert Reich

Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside. — Rajneesh

In a taxi speeding uptown on the West Side Highway, I let my thoughts drift below the surface of the Hudson until it finally occurs to me that feelings fill the gaps created by the indirectness of experience. Though the experience is social, thoughts carry it into a singular space and it is this that causes the feelings of loneliness; or it is this that collides the feeling with the experience so that what is left is the solitude called loneliness. — Claudia Rankine

I liked the way he handled himself in the kitchen. I like men who cook. Men who cook are generally good lovers. — Janice Dickinson

God can be trusted. He keeps His promises. He doesn't make any mistakes. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss