Quotes about Disparity

Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house.

Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed.

What agreement is there between the hyena and the dog? and what peace between the rich and the poor?BibleEcclus,xiii. 18.2.

For me, being with Obama or having dinner with Bill Clinton... it's crazy. It's mind-blowing, because where I come from is just another world. We were just ignored by politicians - by America in general.

The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.

the only thing above average is the cow-to-human ratio.

the only thing above average is the cow-to-human ratio.

As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.

Perceiving myself in a blunder, I attempted to correct it. I might have seen there was too great a disparity between the ages of the parties to make it likely that they were man and wife. One was about forty: a period of mental vigour at which men seldom cherish the delusion of being married for love by girls: that dream is reserved for the solace of our declining years. The other did not look seventeen.

In a certain sense, you do write to seduce the world, but when it happens, you begin to feel like a whore. The disparity between your life and your work turns out to be as great as ever. And the people seduced by your work are usually seduced by all the wrong reasons.

It's only that I feel an injustice has been committed. Why should I have somebody else's malaria and you have my dose of clap?

Actually although they can be connected, the two are very different things. Vine's