Quotes About Discrepancy

I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.

That cup of tea is definately not down your alley

She had a sweet voice, a voice with a warm and tender quality. This was strange, because her face was cold, as though warmth and tenderness were dead in her.

Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.

What one reads in the newspaper and what one sees on the street are absolutely not the same.

I always loved playing extreme opposites, whether it's internal or external.

I think our show is very different from Orange County.

That's not my picture...

What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking - apart from the White House, which is beautiful.

They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't have known how to explain why. Here lay the great discrepancy between aesthetic truth and sleazy reality.

There is always a gap between intention and action..

It's wonderful that nothing you write is ever going to be as beautiful as what's in your head, because that gap is where the art can enter and begin to stretch its limbs.

Some people are just different, even in the same family.

Ignorance can explain at best a small part of world inequality.

Faith, I have heard too much; for your words and performances are no kin together.

Give them all the contextualization and whatnot you like – they're still chalk and cheese.

knowing what we should be doing and actually doing it are two very different things.

Now their eyes kept returning to the space where Polly's right arm should have been. It was an anomaly, an oddness, an optical discrepancy. From now on it wouldn't be her beauty that would cause people to stare at her in shopping centers.

In human life, there is often a discrepancy between public (announced) goals and private (unspoken) goals. Thus, a politician's announced goal is usually to serve public need. The real goal is often to get elected, to serve ambition, and to satisfy greed.

We're all different.

Real life doesn't live up to writing about it

Difference is the essence of extremity

There is a huge gap between what students want for their future and what their schools are offering.

The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up.