Discrepancy Between Quotes

#1. There is a serious discrepancy between what we really wants, and what we usually do to get what we think we want. What we really want is to fill the hole inside and become complete, and what we do is look for success and growth outside.

Ilchi Lee

#2. It is the discrepancy between the promise implicit in his touch and his daily interactions with her that generates so much confusion and ambivalence for Martha.
from Lo Siento

Marcy Sheiner

#3. Perhaps it's not theology we're missing, but rather theological integrity. Many have the knowledge but lack the courage to admit the discrepancy between what we know and how we live.

Francis Chan

#4. One way to handle the discrepancy between our beliefs and our sinful inclinations is to repent, pray for grace and forgiveness, and struggle on in the belief that God will forge a greater harmony for us out of our battle with sin. That is the Christian approach. ~ p.75

William Kilpatrick

#5. They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't have known how to explain why. Here lay the great discrepancy between aesthetic truth and sleazy reality.

Patrick White

#6. If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

Charles Horton Cooley

#7. The discrepancy between what was expected and what has been observed has grown over the years, and we're straining harder and harder to fill the gap.

Jeremiah P. Ostriker

#8. The discrepancy between the vacationists' good times and Isolde's unfortunate experience is more than disgusting

Paul Hindemith

#9. He gazed for an hour upon the great clouds of pearl that hang forever upon the horizon of that sea, and extracted from their beauty a resignation that he did not permit his reason to examine. The discrepancy between faith and the facts is greater than is generally assumed.

Thornton Wilder

#10. We shouldn't force ourselves to do something that really is just painful to us. If there is a discrepancy between what we are doing or putting our bodies through and then what our minds are telling us, you really have to look at yourself, and the most essential part of it is the pleasure aspect.

David Belle

#11. No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the artist's consciousness of this discrepancy between his conception and the realization that assures his progress.

Edgard Varese

#12. We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man ... and his mental-emotional development, which has left him still in a state of marked narcissism with all its pathological symptoms.

Christopher Lasch

#13. How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?

Douglas Adams

#14. The wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#15. Have no discrepancy between what you say, what you are and what you do.

Dalai Lama

#16. A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#17. You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings.

Richard Grant

#18. There must be no discrepancy between what we say and what we do, between our walk and our talk.

Billy Graham

#19. Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Rem Koolhaas

#20. The discrepancy between the modern observance and the prescriptions of the Rule had struck me ever since the novitiate, and no satisfactory explanation had ever been given to me. People said that man had changed: the weakness of people's health no longer allows us to fast. Was it true?

Adalbert De Vogue

#21. He felt a discrepancy between the growing luxury in which the Divers lived & the need for display which apparently went along with it,

F Scott Fitzgerald

#22. Deep down many of us experience a vast discrepancy between what we're taught we should feel about sex and how we actually feel.

Antonia Hall

#23. All our parents have levels of deviousness. We're driven to write about this discrepancy between the bright shining selves they invented and the monsters lurking underneath.

Francine Du Plessix Gray

#24. The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area.

Edward Jay Epstein

#25. The discrepancy between equity earnings yields and Treasury yields is at an all time high

John Paulson

#26. The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry rot which eats away at the foundations of our democratic faith.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

#27. Discrepancy between theory and practice, which in sound physical and mechanical science is a delusion, has a real existence in the minds of men; and that fallacy, through rejected by their judgments, continues to exert and influence over their acts.

William John Macquorn Rankine

#28. So aggressive was the manner in which this question was put that at first I thought the pair of them were probably drunk: a state which, in addition, the discrepancy between their respective heights for some reason quite illogically helped to suggest.

Anthony Powell

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

Yuval Noah Harari

#30. Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Carl Jung

#31. There's a discrepancy between what you think you are and what other people think you are.

Jake Lacy

#32. 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.

Yukio Mishima

#33. What a great discrepancy there is between people and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point.

Orison Swett Marden

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

Roy Moore

#35. 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.

Martin Freeman

#36. Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#37. It's extraordinary, the amount of misunderstandings there are even between two people who discuss a thing quite often - both of them assuming different things and neither of them discovering the discrepancy.

Agatha Christie