Quotes About Discrepancy

To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story.

There's always going to be a gap between what you believe and what you actually do, regardless of what your background is.

There is certainly an economic disparity between Bollywood and the regional film industry.

There's a huge distance between who I am as a regular person and what takes place in my fiction.

I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

Obviously, retired life in Florida didn't offer a whole lot of excitement. Forty below in Fargo! she'd exlcaim. I can't believe it! Why, at home it's probably seventy-five or eighty. It was always seventy-five or eighty at home, even when it was actually a hundred and twelve or in the midst of a hurricane.

When people are committed to things, and the world view they have is no longer in alignment with our world view, then it becomes funny.

Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.

I think me and Macklemore exist in two different worlds.

The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences.

Every race is totally different.

What I think and what the world thinks is totally different.

The heart and the almanac never agree about time.

You are not what you intend, you are what you do. Intention and action are separated by a chasm

The receptionist's salary, on the other hand, was taxed at almost twice that rate once FICA was included. From Buffett's perspective, the discrepancy was

there would always be a chasm between what I knew should be done to achieve a better world and what in a day, week, or year I found myself actually able to accomplish.

I realized that for all the power inherent in the seat I now occupied, there would always be a chasm between what I knew should be done to achieve a better world and what in a day, week, or year I found myself actually able to accomplish.

we notice a discrepancy in sequences, that would be strange.

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.

the gap steadily grows over the second and third grades.

Thoreau was a victim of the Optimism Gap (the "I'm OK, They're Not" illusion), which for happiness is more like a canyon. People in every country underestimate the proportion of their compatriots who say they are happy, by an average of 42 percentage points.19

I've played the clarinet since I was a kid. I love to sing, but I'm not much of a singer. Let's say that when it comes to vocalizing, I have the soul of Billy Bigelow but the voice of Jigger Cragan.

The only possible conclusion that social sciences can draw is some do, some don't.

It was, then, in the imagination of Virgil, and of Virgil alone, that the concept of Arcady, as we know it, was born — that a bleak and chilly district of Greece came to be transfigured into an imaginary realm of perfect bliss. But no sooner had this new, Utopian Arcady come into being than a discrepancy was felt between the supernatural perfection of an imaginary environment and the natural limitations of human life as it is.