Quotes About Discrepancy

was as if Pee-wee Herman had opened his mouth to speak and James Earl Jones's voice had come out.

The health-care sector certainly employs more people and more machines than it did. But there have been no great strides in service. In Western Europe, most primary-care practices now use electronic health records and offer after-hours care; in the United States, most don't.

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.

Every director is so different from every other one.

There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things.

Everything can look good in theory and in practice it all falls apart.

If the book and my brain are both the work of the same Infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and the brain do not agree?

What if the wrong person showed up first and said you were expecting them?' I said. 'I told them middling tall, skinny, weird-looking hair because it will have just been let out of being tied up in a scarf for working in a restaurant and you never comb it, wearing a fierce look,' said Pat. 'I was pretty safe.' 'Fierce?' I said. I also thought, Skinny?, but I have my pride. The part about my hair is true.

Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from the physical, moral, and intellectual viewpoints.

Time moves at a different rate for our GPS satellites in orbit than it does down here. Einstein's equations correct for this discrepancy. Perfectly. This really is how the universe works.

Puede haber una gran disparidad entre lo que decimos que queremos y lo que realmente hacemos para lograr eso que queremos.

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.

Life is never quite like the brochure.

Looking around at the diversity within our human race, it is obvious that 0.01% accounts for a significant difference in how we look, think, and behave.

was doomed to fall short, because of the gap between facts and truth.

It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Nadie me ofende si me contradice: para una criatura como yo, de opiniones tan poco sólidas, y de sentimientos tan cambiantes, la discrepancia no tiene aquel sentido de agravio que asume para los firmes y para los dogmáticos, porque yo vivo en habitual discordancia conmigo mismo".

What the fashion system says and what the fashion customer says are really two different things.

I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.

I think there are much bigger differences between players in this league than between coaches. There is a big gap between LeBron James and the small forward for whoever. Far bigger than between two coaches.

Large companies everywhere tend to be more productive than small ones. But the gap in productivity is far wider in developing countries.

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

he knew that the face someone showed the world could be at odds with the psyche.