Gulf Quotes

The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism. — Pierre Salinger

I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana. — Ian Somerhalder

My home was 25 miles from the gulf, and I did not want to see it become a shorefront property. — John Breaux

Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy. — Daniel Prokop

Fat Charlie saw one thing with his eyes, and he saw something else with his mind, and in the gulf between the two things, madness waited. — Neil Gaiman

Heroes understand the vast moral gulf between those who target the innocent and those who target those who target the innocent. — John Nolte

You pluck flower after flower - it is never the flower. The flower itself - its calyx is a horrible gulf, it is the bottomless pit. — D.H. Lawrence

A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists. — Mahatma Gandhi

Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf. — Jules Verne

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high. — Thomas E. Mann

We're either going to be dependent on dirty oil from the Gulf or dirty oil from Canada. — Hillary Clinton

Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths. — Victor Hugo

The Gulf Stream waters of Woody Guthrie's famous song were strung with columns of oil that were several miles long. — James Lee Burke

Mrs. Reilly called in that accent that occurs south of New Jersey only in New Orleans, that Hoboken near the Gulf of Mexico. — John Kennedy Toole

How can thinking people believe that a government that cannot deliver the mail can deliver gas better than Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Gulf, and the rest? — Milton Friedman

Have you been following the big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? Or as we call it now, the Dead Sea. — David Letterman

We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid. — Woody Harrelson

I think the Gulf of Mexico has something else going for it. Just looking into that mild flat sunlit calm is healing. — Stephen King

Cold rain, the sidewalk shining, the shhh of car tires on the wet street. Thinking about the terrible gulf of years between eighteen and fifty. — Emily St. John Mandel

We were impressed with the size and scope of the Persian Gulf as we traveled to Islamabad, Pakistan. — Jon Porter

Distance is not a gulf but a bridge between lovers. — Marty Rubin

You know being and ex serviceman and a Disabled Gulf War Veteran. You could play Taps on a Jews Harp and I'd still cry — Stanley Victor Paskavich

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico. — Sylvia Earle

Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity. — Benjamin Stillingfleet

[There is a] gulf that can exist between different emotional and perceptual worlds - all 'Chinese' - in recent times [post-Deng Xiaoping]. — Mark Elvin

On our current path, all our great Gulf and Atlantic coast cities are at risk of meeting the same fate as New Orleans. — Joseph J. Romm

Canada has sent an army of 1,000 soldiers to occupy the Muslim country of Afghanistan (and ships to the Persian Gulf), — George Galloway

Thirty percent of the Nation's energy comes off the gulf coast. — Bobby Jindal

I feel as if there's a huge gulf separating me from all the lucky people in the world; they have so much to look forward to. — Ruth Reichl

On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. — Thornton Wilder

The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say one thing & do another. — Steven Levitt

Scientists say they have developed a car that can run on water. The only catch is, the water has to come from the Gulf of Mexico. — Jay Leno

History flung the accents on our names into the water when it took us across the Gulf of Siam thirty years ago. — Kim Thuy

But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses. — Christopher Shays

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There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience. — Jad Abumrad

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge. — Patrick Campbell

Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in a moment. — Tom Brokaw

Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world. — Rob Walton

I was trying to do something that seemed very natural and easy but which bridged that gulf between the singing voice and the speaking voice. — Carlisle Floyd

There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice. — Elizabeth Joan Smith

He was in an eddy again, a deep, lethargic gulf, without desire to work or write, love or dissipate. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico. — John Amos

My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have. — Ian Somerhalder

There seemed a gulf impassable between them. — Jane Austen

There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it. — Jodi Picoult

Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. — W.G. Sebald

There is a vast gulf between perfection and near perfection, and that gulf is filled with agony. — Larry Correia

I think [Bush] would like to hand his father Saddam Hussein's head and win his approval for what happened after the Gulf War. — Martin Sheen

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. — Rebecca West

The gulf between their world and hers had manifested itself, however much they'd meditated on how to ball her, and remained. — Philip K. Dick

I am so proud to be partnering with Waterkeepers, who are the voice for the Gulf Coast's waters. — Sophie B. Hawkins

Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. — Brian Skerry

BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes. — Douglas Coupland

Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth? — Anne Rice

The recovery of the Gulf Coast region will take years to complete. — Max Baucus

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction. — James Russell Lowell

sarchasm n. The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it. — Steven Pinker

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf. — Winston Churchill

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy. — Katherine Mansfield

I said that we needed to have people on the ground, troops on the ground in a coalition similar to what we had in the first Gulf War. — John Kasich

My goal is to be living back in Canada as soon as I can, hopefully somewhere in the Gulf Islands. — Nicholas Lea

We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood. — Dorothy L. Sayers

There is good news. Scientists sent a probe down there in the Gulf of Mexico today and they found traces of seawater. — Bill Maher

Throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us. — Henry David Thoreau

There is no yawning gulf between man and God. Through his aspiration and meditation, Man can become conscious of his oneness with God. — Sri Chinmoy

Keystone will deliver 830,000 barrels of oil per day from Canada, North Dakota, and Montana to Gulf Coast refineries. — Kevin McCarthy

The list is an absolute good. The list is life. All round its cramped margins lies the gulf. — Thomas Keneally

You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church. — Margaret Fuller

POP FACT Like the Passat and the Scirocco, the Golf was another '70s VW named after a wind. In this case, Golfstrom, which is German for Gulf Stream. — Giles Chapman

We're on our way to the Persian Gulf. Wait! It's a mistake! I thought they said Persian Golf. — Bob Hope

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans. — George H. W. Bush

I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf. — George McGovern

In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks. — Ralph Peters

Grief has pushed us apart like repelling magnets: no matter how hard we try to reach each other, there's a gulf between us that we just can't bridge. — Louise Jensen

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America. — Richard M. Nixon

It's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf! — Jean Webster

There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them. — Michel De Montaigne

The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on. — Mario Batali

It was a leap of faith - to throw one's heart across a gulf, and trust another to catch it. — Diana Gabaldon

The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot. — Ludwig Von Mises

In fact, I want to be a Transformer as an adult. I would transform into a Gulf Stream 500. — Brad Delson

Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

The feminist movement has not made it to the Gulf of Mexico. Never seen that movement. — Diane Wilson

I, not for the first time, would like to say that I never took a pro-Iraq position during the Gulf War. — King Hussein

What a gulf between the self which experiences and the self which describes experience. — Edmund Wilson

I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis. — Al-Waleed Bin Talal

Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks very high. — Christopher Hitchens

A machine does not care — Tom Godwin

The Persian Gulf is our lifeline ... We will respect international navigation, for us, freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf is a must. — Mohammad Javad Zarif

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false. — Clifford Geertz

Man would have remained forever lost if God in His infinite mercy had not sent His Son to earth to bridge this gulf. — Billy Graham

No matter how close two human beings may be, there is always a gulf between them which only love can bridge, and that only from hour to hour. — Hermann Hesse

Both sides, parents and children, now saw the huge gulf that had opened between them — Michael Grant

The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon. — Tom Harkin

No oyster in the world tastes as good as a Gulf oyster. — Steve Scalise

This gulf war syndrome thing is truly unfortunate, and I've met some of the vets who have this. These are my guys, and I feel terrible about it. — Norman Schwarzkopf

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son. — John Phillips Marquand

I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness. — Christopher Shays

We must eliminate the gulf of mistrust and ignorance that keeps us from learning from each other. — Coretta Scott King