The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."
Well, it may be all right in practice, but it will never work in theory
Everything's not always perfect.
You talk one way, you live another.
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.
Pain is the difference between what is and what I want it to be.
What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very different things.
For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.
Faithful heart may have froward tongue.
Everyone runs on an education platform. We have Education Presidents and Education Governors and Education Dog Catchers, but the dollars never match the rhetoric.
It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.
We always felt that there was some hanky-panky going on with our money. We were the No. 1 group in the world, but we weren't paid like that.
Everything can look good in theory and in practice it all falls apart.
When two or more people agree on an issue, I form on the other side.
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
That is all that happened. Why did you hear something else?
One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.
We have to admit that there is an immeasurable distance between all that we read in the Bible and the practice of the Church and of Christians.
Sometimes you don't see the result that you expect.
I'm this goofball. I look at myself in the mirror, and the person that I know doesn't match up to what I think people love to perceive me as.
I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I'm tired.I'm tired of the truth and I'm tired of lying about the truth.
Jesus proclaimed the Kingdom of God and what came was the Church.
She had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.
Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed.
I don't expect everyone to agree with me. Frankly, I'd be shocked if they did.
