Quotes About Disparity

The U.S. stock market was now a class system, rooted in speed, of haves and have-nots. The haves paid for nanoseconds; the have-nots had no idea that nanoseconds had value. The haves enjoyed a perfect view of the market; the have-nots never saw the market at all.

You have to understand that Singapore is quite different from Mauritius.

My sister does all this community-service type stuff in Portland that makes the world a much better place. And I make as much in a two-day commercial shoot as she does in five years, which is ridiculous.

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.

One of my feet is a whole size longer than the other. One is size ten, the other is size eleven.

I have eaten good food in unprepossessing locales, but I doubt the disparity between the crude, shabby atmosphere of that nameless cement-block dispensary of protein and redemption and the quality of the lunch laid on by the butcher of Zegota will ever be matched.

apply not just to underprivileged citizens but to prosperous white college-educated Americans when compared with their socioeconomic equivalents abroad.

A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.

Yeah, what's new, a typical case of brass myopia, nothing personal, never a reason for an officer to pay attention to an enlisted joe unless he wants his ass licked or is experiencing some Zulu impulse to ram a spear through your chest.

Las estadísticas demuestran que la causa número uno de todas las rupturas de relaciones es el dinero. La razón más grande que hay detrás de las peleas que tiene la gente por el dinero no es el dinero en sí, sino la disparidad de sus «patrones». No importa el dinero que tengas o dejes de tener: si tu patrón no concuerda con el de la persona con quien estás relacionándote, tendrás un reto mayúsculo. Esto

So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world.

One of the most profound mysteries of autism has been the remarkable ability of most autistic people to excel at visual spatial skills while performing so poorly at verbal skills.

Violence is Black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years worth of education.

I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity.

I … there is a great discrepancy between

Let's not pretend there's no difference in how much the men get paid for doing the exact same thing as the women. Not going to change a thing pretending like I'm an ac-tor. Which is why I'm going to make my own movies and television. Acting is for those who want to be exploited by misogynist assholes.

As she sat in the House Committee anteroom waiting to testify, she looked out the window and was startled by the contrast between Capitol Hill's marble government buildings, surrounded by manicured grounds, and the rows of tumbledown houses occupied by the city's Negro population. The children were barefoot and dressed in rags. "They all looked rachitic and most seemed undernourished. All they had to play with was junk they found in the street.

By contrast, whatever happened to Maryam today wouldn't matter very much. She'd still inherit a business and a place in society. The rich lived in a different universe.

Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.

For me, it just doesn't make sense that somebody could be out the same day or not have to serve a day in jail because they have better resources.

I want my kids to graduate from high school. But that's not enough. I also want them to go to college. Why? Because rich people's kids go to college. And if that's good enough for them, it's good enough for my kids. Because you know what? College graduates don't tend to go to jail as frequently as nongraduates.

In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.

You could probably convince me that North Jersey and South Jersey should be two separate states. They're just so different.

Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.