Quotes About Discrepancy

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

I'd aspired to give people a profound education - to teach them something substantial. But the data was at odds with this idea.

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

In human affairs, the distance between the leaders and the average is a constant.

An incongruity is a discrepancy, a dissonance, between what is and what 'ought' to be, or between what is and what everybody assumes it to be.

The incongruity between perceived and actual reality typically characterizes a whole industry or a whole service area. The solution, however, should again be small and simple, focused and highly specific.

tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you.

Don't go to the hardware store for milk.

31. Meanwhile the One horse on top of the Four horse is paying $82 and the Two horse on top of the Four horse is paying $157, and it is going like this in most of the other combinations involving horse One and horse Two. Then, clearly, horse One is favored over horse Two in the exacta pool. But if horse Two is going off at lower odds in the win pool than horse One, something is out of kilter. You have found a discrepancy and may have a good exacta bet on horse Two (or a good win bet

One album has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

It would be exciting to write a play, Barbara thought, to see your creations put on the garment of mortality, to hear your words issuing from their mouths. But a play must always be a little disappointing; no actor can completely satisfy an author, and there must be some discrepancy between the author's conception of a character and the actor's expression. This was far better than any play, for the actors were themselves. They couldn't act out of character if they tried,

No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man.

It just burns my heart that there's such a massive discrepancy in the number of male producers in the industry, versus female producers.

I used to deal with high-profile criminal cases that were covered extensively in the media, and one of the things I quickly appreciated was there was a gulf between what really took place in the middle of a case, the impact on victims, the effect on the police and how they solved crimes, and the way it was reported.

There's a huge discrepancy between the Jon Stewart who goes on TV every night and the Jon Stewart who runs The Daily Show with joyless rage," said an anonymous former executive. It was something that Bob Wiltfong witnessed

What one deserves and what one experiences are seldom congruent.

It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love.

It was the first time in a long while that I thought about how small a dog I was as Max. It did not seem right that a dog should be the same size as a duck.

Theory and practice may not coincide. A Sikh girl may find her life restricted more than her brother's even though Sikh teaching is one of gender equality.

It will be interesting to have chance to view and the places from rich and poor to see what happens... if somebody knows the chance to do it it's smaller than before.

not only do the edges not fit, they're not even from the same damn puzzle.

the house looked shoddy in comparison with its neighbors. It stood out in the elegant street of terraced houses like a meatball in caviar.

routine monitoring of her brain implant's data stream showed that Kline's predominant state of mind was an alpha brain wave varying between 7 and 13 Hz—a state of nonarousal, relaxed alertness in the face of mortal danger. It was a small discrepancy that would go unnoticed until much later.

Causally, noise is nowhere; statistically, it is everywhere.