Top 55 Quotes About Discrepancy
#1. People have no discrepancy for me or my lyrics or the song.
Jadakiss
#2. 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
#3. Have no discrepancy between what you say, what you are and what you do.
Dalai Lama
#4. Accounting incomes were reduced by discrepancy [ but] the net amount paid by lawyers for lawyerly discrepancy is close to zippo. In this case, the goddess of justice was blind.
Charlie Munger
#5. 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.
Ben Shapiro
#6. 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
#7. No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man.
Roy Moore
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. A chord that becomes a melodious delusion,
In polar discrepancy from blue to yellow painted,
In yellow I existed, with digoxin's deadly illusion,
Like Van Gogh's stars in a bright night untainted.
Selina A. Mahmood
#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. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. There must be no discrepancy between what we say and what we do, between our walk and our talk.
Billy Graham
#16. In cases of major discrepancy its always reality thats got it wrong ... reality is frequently inaccurate.
Douglas Adams
#17. The discrepancy between the vacationists' good times and Isolde's unfortunate experience is more than disgusting
Paul Hindemith
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#21. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.
Corey Feldman
#28. The harmony of the universe knows only one musical form - the legato; while the symphony of number knows only its opposite - the staccato. All attempts to reconcile this discrepancy are based on the hope that an accelerated staccato may appear to our senses as a legato.
Tobias Dantzig
#29. This puzzling discrepancy prompted the development of the controversial cosmological theory known as the Strong Misanthropic Principle, which asserts that the universe exists in order to screw with us.
Robert Kroese
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. That's another thing about lies: if you convince yourself they're true, they become true. A lie is a discrepancy of belief, not fact.
Leah Raeder
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences.
John Frame
#36. 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
#37. One's instinct is at first to try and get rid of a discrepancy, but I believe that experience shows such an endeavour to be a mistake. What one ought to do is to magnify a small discrepancy with a view to finding out the explanation.
John William Strutt
#38. 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
#39. The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area.
Edward Jay Epstein
#40. Seeing color doesn't mean you're a racist. It means your eyes work, but that you are hopefully able to see color not for a discrepancy in normal, but as a beautiful component of diversity.
Brittany Gibbons
#41. If you aren't following your bliss, there is a discrepancy in your psychology that needs to be healed, it needs to be mended.
Christopher Rice
#42. The discrepancy between equity earnings yields and Treasury yields is at an all time high
John Paulson
#43. 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
#44. I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who's 5ft 8in, so high heels help me even out the discrepancy.
Amy Adams
#45. The odds of finding love are one in 285,000, but the probability of getting married is 80 percent. There seems to be a discrepancy here. Your
Rebekah Crane
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. This discrepancy between evolutionary success and individual suffering is perhaps the most important lesson we can draw from the Agricultural Revolution.
Yuval Noah Harari
#49. If the new movies do contradict my books in some way, I can probably come up with some hand-waving story that will explain the apparent discrepancy. If there's one thing we authors are good at, it's hand-waving.
Timothy Zahn
#50. 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
#51. There's a discrepancy between what you think you are and what other people think you are.
Jake Lacy
#52. You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings.
Richard Grant
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. Month to month there were many discrepancies carried forward without resolution through what I jokingly called my "999 (or Nick Leeson)" account.
Jon Edgell
