Quotes About Discrepancy

There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.

The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different

Clearly it's not all that pacific on the Pacific Ocean

It's true that journalism in reality is not the journalism that we learnt in the university. It is far from it.

I feel young, but my body doesn't agree.

Imagine... You feel great about yourself, but when you look down, your body is the opposite sex from who you know yourself to be. Imagine what it would feel like to live with that descrepancy.

I thought you drove down here in a Buick," said Absalom Greer, "but it looks like you've come drivin' a hard bargain.

comedy and comic satisfaction thrive on things that do not exactly add up. They thrive on these discrepancies as a source of pleasure rather than pain. Yet this by no means implies that comedy is distinguished from tragedy by what one would call today a "positive attitude," "positive thinking," the ability to find something positive and satisfactory even in the worst situations.

I believe that most people would like to cooperate in reducing waste, but to encourage them, the national policy should be clear, well advertised, and consistent. Even within Greater London, there is a huge discrepancy between council policies. I believe a national waste management initiative should be designed and implemented by government.

The ouster of Jill Abramson as executive editor of 'The New York Times' sent shock waves through the media landscape. Reports that she was fired thanks in part to a soured relationship based on the 'Times' alleged sexist pay discrepancy only made those shock waves stronger.

I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.

British shows, especially on a first commission, don't get the cash that the U.S. shows get.

If you look at the NBA compared to the WNBA we make half of one per cent of what the men are allowed to make.

When comparing many things in life the difference between average and best is say 30% but some people are 50 times more effective than others.

The dishes that were meant to be hot were never quite as warm as those that were meant to be chilled.

Baldrick, we are about as similar as two...dis-similar things in a pod!

But after you have been here for a while you realize that inside one country there are two separate worlds.

Studies in the USA often report even larger differences, such as a 28?year difference in life expectancy at age 16 between blacks and whites living in some of the poorest and some of the richest areas

I'd see him do things that didn't fit with his face or hands, things like painting a picture at OT with real paints on a blank paper with no lines or numbers anywhere on it to tell him where to paint, or like writing letters to somebody in a beautiful flowing hand. How could a man who looked like him paint pictures or write letters to people, or be upset and worried like I saw him once when he got a letter back?

The difference between what you expect and what you get is the problem.

Instead of being distressed by the huge moral discrepancy between the myth of Hollywood and its current reality, most of them only saw what already had been fixed in their minds. It was absolutely eerie and sent me right back to The Day of the Locust. The point that Nathanael West made, of course, is that the masses ultimately want to kill and devour, to cannibalize their celebrity gods.

There are two kinds of people in this world. And I'm not one of them.

Yet somehow Jesus' actions were not matching John's expectations. And that distance between what John thought Jesus would do and what Jesus actually did was straining John's certainty of who Jesus was.

The world would be a boring place if we were all the same.