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Quotes About Discrepancy

though it was too true that life as she is lived has a way of being curiously different from life as described by novelists.
~ Stella Gibbons
The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.
~ Harold Prince
aquella operación, los cajones acabaron en una disposición diferente: la correcta. Bosch estaba convencido de que alguien los había sacado todos para registrarlos por debajo y por detrás y luego los había vuelto a colocar en el lugar equivocado. Después
~ Michael Connelly
There was absolutely no consistency to the experience.
~ Michael E. Gerber
The experimental psychologist "rarely attributes a deviation of results from expectations to sampling variability because he finds a causal 'explanation' for any discrepancy
~ Michael Lewis
You have to understand that Singapore is quite different from Mauritius.
~ Lee Hsien Loong
I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
~ Zebulon Pike
There was a strange discrepancy between the reality of our lives as women and the image to which we were trying to conform, the image that I came to call the feminine mystique.
~ Betty Friedan
But Germany produced about 10 times more solar in June 2018 than it did in December 2018.
~ Bill Gates
And so I have to ask myself: whose memory is at fault? Mine or his? [...] Two memories. Two bright minds which remember past events differently
~ Susanna Clarke
I … there is a great discrepancy between
~ Julie Cohen
You could probably convince me that North Jersey and South Jersey should be two separate states. They're just so different.
~ Ramy Youssef
Everything about him was beautiful, with the sole exception of his jaws
~ Hemingway Ernest
We cannot conceive of a greater difference than between the life of one man and that of another.
~ Henry David Thoreau
There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
~ Noam Chomsky
the gap between promises and results," which it claims is itself a result of "the gap between what a company's leaders want to achieve and the ability of their organization to achieve it"; that is, the alignment gap – getting the organization to do what its leaders want.35
~ Stephen Bungay
In the 40 years I've been working as an economist and investor, I have never seen such a disconnect between the asset market and the economic reality... Asset markets are in the sky, and the economy of the ordinary people is in the dumps, where their real incomes adjusted for inflation are going down and asset markets are going up.
~ Marc Faber
In America, they slag each other off at the press conference, then get in the ring and don't do anything.
~ Joe Calzaghe
The Carrie in the plot was too much like the Carrie in the book. She smoked, she swore a lot, she was very hard, very cynical. I could never have pulled it off.
~ Kristin Davis
Us and everyone in Hollywood puts so much time and effort and money into getting things to look just right and when you see it in someone's home, it looks like it was shot on an iPhone.
~ Matt Duffer
L'uomo vuole, attraverso l'azione, rivelare la propria immagine, ma quest'immagine non gli assomiglia.
~ Milan Kundera
Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercury's orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from what Newton's mathematics predicted. In 1915, Einstein used his new equations to recalculate Mercury's trajectory and was able to explain the discrepancy, a realization he later described to his colleague Adrian Fokker as so thrilling that for some hours it gave him heart palpitations.
~ Brian Greene
There were excesses in science and there were excesses in religion. A reasonable man wouldn't be stampeded by either one. There were many interpretations of Scripture and many interpretations of the natural world. Both were created by God, so both must be mutually consistent. Wherever a discrepancy seems to exist, either a scientist or a theologian—maybe both—hasn't been doing his job. Palmer
~ Carl Sagan
That smile might have been on his lips, but it was not in his eyes.
~ Terry Goodkind