Disparate interests Quotes

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience.”

“The same things that lead to disparities in health in this country on a day-to-day basis led to disparities in the impact of Hurricane Katrina.”

“There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.”

“Disparate energies come togetherThat have never been aligned before.And so bound,Is the world illuminated,Changed forever in an instant…”

“The time and space in which I have been working on this cosmopolitan project have convinced me that the disparity between the ideal of cosmopolitan theology and the current sociopolitical configuration of hospitality, welcoming others, unconditional forgiveness, is itself a _prophetic call_ to which we all have to respond––as humans, as person of faith. The _real_ is always about calculation and conditionality, whereas the _ideal_ of cosmopolitan theology is about incalculability, unconditionality, and planetarity of the _world-as-it-ought-to-be_. Therefore, the disparity between the reality and the ideality is not a space for despair but a space where one's sense of prophetic call_ and passion for _the impossible_ must come in.”

“Imagination is the connecting of disparate things in novel ways.”

“When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.”

“I'm fascinated by the idea of disparate, difficult people learning to trust each other when they're thrust into hellish circumstances.”

“Is distinctive black culture the cause of economic disparity between whites and blacks or merely the reflection of it?”

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