The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.
Leaders glare at each other across the chasm of misunderstanding.
There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.
Turkey is either going to be a bridge between Europe and the Middle East or it is going to be a ditch.
How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.
The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
...we were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us.
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
There is nothing more dangerous than to leap a chasm in two jumps.
It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.
A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.
My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.
It was one frayed rope thrown across the chasm between us. Not enough to get across, but maybe just enough to tell that it wasn't as wide as I'd originally thought.
We stand on a precipice, then before a chasm, and as we wait it becomes higher, wider, deeper, but I am crazy enough to think it doesn't matter which way we leap because when we leap we will have learned to fly. Is that blasphemy or faith?
The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a gap between us, but a whole chasm of modernity.
Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution.
The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.
