Disparity Quotes

• I was very sensitive to the environment around, and this disparity in people, seeing beggars and laborers not paid well, used to disturb me. So these emotions in these roles came very naturally to me.

  

  Om Puri
  • People
  • Emotions
  • Roles

• There'll be a growing disparity between economics and politics. An economy that grows so rapidly is intractably global. On the other hand, the current political system is intractably national. So there is a growing dichotomy between a global economy and locally based politiriscs.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Political
  • Growing
  • Hand

• The contrast of the world that we live in and the world that is here in Aspen and the world inhabited by women who have no resources, little or no, very few resources - huge disparity.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • World
  • Resources
  • Disparity

• Today, the worst conflicts, the most deep-rooted violence, and those likely to emerge in the coming years are due to disparities in development.

  

  Segolene Royal
  • Violence
  • Development
  • Disparity

• One thing which frustrates me about state pensions is the disparity between EU countries.

  

  Geoff Capes
  • Country
  • States
  • Pension

• Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled counterparts.

  

  Stephen F. Lynch
  • Benefits
  • Globalization
  • Disparity

• Irony is the disparity between what you expect will happen, and what does happen. So raining on your wedding day isn't ironic, it's just crappy. It would have been ironic if she had lived in a place like Seattle, and traveled to the desert of Mexico for a wedding and it ended up raining there, but not in Seattle. Alanis always gets the last laugh though. We all sit here, saying her song isn't ironic, but in fact, that's pretty ironic that she wrote a song called Ironic that wasn't really ironic. Those Canadians are pretty crafty.

  

  Mo Rocca
  • Happens
  • Laughing
  • Wedding