Quotes About Discrepancy

pensaba en el amor y en sus espantosas desigualdades. Siempre hay alguien que ofrece la mejilla y otro que la besa.

When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.

A sex researcher phones one of the participants in a recent survey to check on a discrepancy. He says to the guy, "In response to the question on frequency of intercourse you answered 'twice weekly.' Your wife, on the other hand, answered 'several times a night.'" "That's right," replies the husband. "And that's how it's going to stay until our second mortgage is paid off.

When Jeff Sachs says every poor person should receive a free bed net, I agree - but in reality, many end up not receiving one. And I don't live in a world of shoulds.

Am I the only one who can't seem to reconcile the grand canyon of cognitive dissonance I feel when people with much more important jobs than I have manage to score much lengthier times off?

China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

The shortfall between the imagined and the real, multiplied by the violence of one's intent, equals the evil one will do.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them.

If there are watching, for the World Cup final, 500 million people or something like that, and 100 million for a women's final, that's a difference. So it's not the same.

Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same.

Martin smiled, the slow curve of his mouth revealing a dimple in his left cheek. Violet frowned, as she did every time she saw that dimple. It didn't belong on his face. It was as simple as that. Dimples were impish and mischievous. They spoke of laughter and pleasure, not three piece suits and pipes and slippers and cardigans with elbow patches.

And the gap between what people think is wrong and what is actually wrong can be quite far indeed.

I think that any time reality doesn't match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved.

Digital is a disaster. No digital radio has the correct time and they don't even agree with each other.

The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.

What someone says and what happened are usually two different things.

No mezclo nada, sólo repito lo que dijiste. Lo que uno cuenta y lo que sucede de verdad no suele coincidir, Rudy, sobre todo contigo.

No mezclo nada, sólo repito lo que tu dijiste. Lo que uno cuenta y lo que sucede de verdad no suele coincidir, Rudy, sobre todo contigo.

what he has found is a stubborn, overwhelming, and embarrassing degree of inconsistency in what we do.

I don't think it's any more deceptive than wearing four-inch come-fuck-me pumps when one has no intention of ever fucking anybody.

Unfortunately, however, these two theories are known to be inconsistent with each other—they cannot both be correct.

the way things should be and the way things are hardly ever get together.

The happiness differences between rich and poor countries that one might expect on the basis of within-country differences by economic status are not borne out by the international data," Easterlin