Quotes About Discrepancy

There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just Jo'burg, but it's also a metaphor for the Third World and the First World. And in science fiction, separation of wealth is a really interesting idea to mess with.

You know, its interesting to me that so much of the population is living under the poverty line, but when you look at television, you would think that everybody is upper-middle class or wealthy.

Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings.

I like wearing beautiful clothes, but that does not translate into my work. People don't like to see me as a glam doll in my movies. My audience and the media love me with two different perceptions. It's a strange, crazy situation.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.

In Ranji cricket, I am used heavily as a bowler, but in international cricket I hardly get four overs, and sometimes I never even get to bowl and bat at number eight.

One fan reaction I keep getting is 'we thought you were taller.'

the only thing above average is the cow-to-human ratio.

But saying one thing before it happens and then actually having that thing happen are two different things.

Behaviours and feelings rarely line up.

She didn't look like a Willow Queen. Of course, I'm not sure what exactly I expected - maybe something akin to Glinda the Good Witch. But this woman looked like Surfer Girl Barbie.

What I mean and what I say is two different things, the BFG announced rather grandly.

Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.

Scott turned away with Maggie at his side. He felt like an idiot for believing he had discovered a glaring discrepancy when top-cop detectives like Orso and Cowly knew the case inside and out. Scott wasn't an idiot, but three more days would pass before he understood.

Thinking of it, and doing it… they're not the same.

Two religions cannot both be right, because they contradict each other, yet they can both be wrong.

So far as feelings were concerned, there was no discrepancy between the very finest feeling in this world and the very worst; that their effect was the same; that no visible difference existed between murderous intent and feelings of deep compassion.

What I learned from this amazing process was that so far as feelings were concerned, there was no discrepancy between the very finest feeling in the world and the very worst; that their effect was the same; that no visible difference existed between murderous intent and feelings of deep compassion.

La historia de la ética es un triste relato de ideales maravillosos que nadie cumple.

Según Harris, islamistas, liberales y nacionalistas no tienen ningún conflicto ético: tienen una discrepancia fáctica acerca de cómo alcanzar su objetivo común.

Esta discrepancia entre éxito evolutivo y sufrimiento individual es quizá la lección más importante que podemos extraer de la revolución agrícola. Cuando

This discrepancy between evolutionary success and individual suffering is perhaps the most important lesson we can draw from the Agricultural Revolution

The discrepancy between evolutionary succes and individual suffering is perhaps the most important lesson we can draw from the Agricultural Revolution.