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Quotes About Discrepancy

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
~ Virginia Woolf
Raising her eyebrows at the discrepancy – that was what she was thinking, this was what she was doing – ladling out soup – she felt, more and more strongly, outside that eddy; or as if a shade had fallen, and, robbed of colour, she saw things truly. The room (she looked round it) was very shabby. There was no beauty anywhere.
~ Virginia Woolf
For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself. This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us.
~ Virginia Woolf
And all the time Ralph was well aware that the bulk of Katharine was not represented in his dreams at all, so that when he met her he was bewildered by the fact that she had nothing to do with his dream of her. When
~ Virginia Woolf
Disproportionate.
~ James Patterson
No? Oh, wait, that's from a different movie
~ James Patterson
It's interesting to see how we are all uniquely different.
~ Jai Rodriguez
The United States has the biggest discrepancy in health and longevity between our wealthiest and our poorest of any country on Earth.
~ Robert Sapolsky
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
~ Charles Horton Cooley
Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are thousand miles about.
~ Cyril Tourneur
EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.
~ Ambrose Bierce
A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.
~ Madeleine M. Kunin
Titus belongs to 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,' Titus Andromedon. Tituss Burgess couldn't be more different. I get how people think I'm one and the same, but I just don't live there. I'm nothing like that man, and whatever I would do wouldn't be in stark contrast just because, but because I'm in stark contrast, it would be different.
~ Tituss Burgess
There are stark, stark contrasts between myself and Jack Conway.
~ Matt Bevin
The disconnect between what people think and what the political leaders are actually doing is something that we really need to start raising.
~ Peter Maurer
One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle, you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.
~ Thomas Frank
He gazed for an hour upon the great clouds of pearl that hang forever upon the horizon of that sea, and extracted from their beauty a resignation that he did not permit his reason to examine. The discrepancy between faith and the facts is greater than is generally assumed.
~ Thornton Wilder
The discrepancy between faith and the facts is greater than is generally assumed.
~ Thornton Wilder
But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.
~ David Dinkins
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~ Orhan Pamuk
My real frustration with Clara, I think, was that it seemed like she should be insecure but wasn't.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.
~ Dale Carnegie
For most things in life, the range between best and average is 30% or so. The best airplane flight, the best meal, they may be 30% better than your average one. What I saw with Woz was somebody who was fifty times better than the average engineer.
~ Walter Isaacson
He looked like a butler dressed by his four-year-old daughter—a mishmash of good intentions and ill design. And there I was, an unshaven, rumpled page of discarded poetry, extending a hand and smiling, no doubt wolfishly.
~ Walter Mosley