Top 100 Know The Difference Quotes
#1. Mairi cupped her daughter's face in her hands. "There are things ye believe, lass, and things that are true. Someday, mayhap, ye'll learn to know the difference.
Kathryn Lynn Davis
#2. Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for spiritual joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and spiritual joy you have not yet begun to live.
Thomas Merton
#3. A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. A reporter should know the difference.
Fred Reed
#4. The desert sorted the faithful from imposters, but the city did not seem to know the difference, and actually rewarded the impure.
Brian Herbert
#5. I know the difference between right and wrong. Right is when I do everything he tells me to. Wrong is when I question why. But every now and then a simple slap across the side of the head is a good way to remind me. - excerpt from: freefalling
Darlenne Susan Girard
#6. the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, the wisdom to know the difference." Amy
Catherine Lea
#7. Rose once told me about this poem she'd read. There was this line, 'If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking.' You know what I'm afraid of? That someday, even with my eyes open, I still won't know.
Richelle Mead
#8. I'm a child who was abused. I know the difference. I clearly know the difference. The whipping for correction and then their child abuse.
Tyler Perry
#9. Knowledge comes from learning - Ignorance is born from not wanting to know the difference!
Robbie Thomas
#10. As we practice, we begin to know the difference between our fantasy and reality.
Pema Chodron
#11. When you're 8 years old, and you've become subconsciously familiar with the layout and design of Black Sparrow books, and you know the difference between Miles Davis and John Coltrane, something is bound to stick.
Patrick DeWitt
#12. You know the difference between guys and girls? Usually girls say it's no different whatsoever. But you see, a lot of girls they don't understand that they are better than us guys. If you think about it, they are much more manipulative.
Tommy Wiseau
#13. I know you engineer types are excellent with mathematics, much better than I ever will be, but I do know the difference between a tiny pail of coins and big bucket of dollars. How can I take the pail when I am worth the bucket?
Ken Goldstein
#14. Now I know the difference between a rousing reception and a pat on the back. Now I know the difference between a gold in Commonwealth Games and a bronze in Olympics.
Gagan Narang
#15. Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
Al Franken
#16. Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth ... and what you tell it.
Ken Blanchard
#17. I realised that I really disliked him, and I knew exactly why: he didn't know the difference between being solemn and being serious.
John Cleese
#18. The Universe doesn't know the difference between a dime and a million. If you refuse the dime, the Universe thinks you don't want money, so you collapse your chances.
Stuart Wilde
#19. The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat.
Ronald Reagan
#20. The dog doesn't know the difference between Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, so I have to walk the dog early those days too.
Donna Shalala
#21. I know the difference between true love and the love of my fans.
Gary Coleman
#22. Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference. Viveca comes downstairs first and heads into the
Wally Lamb
#23. I see shining fish struggling within tight nets, while I hear orioles singing carefree tunes. Even trivial creatures know the difference between freedom and bondage. Sympathy and compassion should be but natural to the human heart.
Du Fu
#24. As a 28 year old who's lived long enough to know the difference, I know now that the feelings I felt an 16 were not necessarily correct. But however overly dramatic, the desperation and hopelessness I felt at 16 was my reality.
Billy Corgan
#25. Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both.
Carew Papritz
#26. What Americans don't care much about is the piffle we put on TV these days, what they don't care about is boring, irrelevant, badly told stories, and what they really hate is the presumption that they're too stupid to know the difference.
Christiane Amanpour
#27. Lord, give me the courage to change the things which can and ought to be changed, the serenity to accept things which cannot be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference - Alcoholics Anonymous
Stephen Covey
#28. It wasn't just a kiss. It was a lesson - a fierce, burning imprint, so that my lips would always know the difference between being wanted and being craved.
Leylah Attar
#29. I know the difference between black magic and white magic.
Tina Turner
#30. Greg had told me on the ride over that there was another organisation called SLAA, which stood for Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous. He didn't know the difference between the two, but this was more conveniently located, and anyway love wasn't his addiction.
Drew Nellins Smith
#31. Know the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Between two-ounce and a big two-ounce? Between a quart and a full quart? What's a tall 24-inch? What does Extra Long mean? Who's kidding who?
Marya Mannes
#32. All that yohoho stuff's for landlubbers, or it would be if we ever used words like landlubber. Do you know the difference between port and starboard? I don't. I've never even drunk starboard.
Terry Pratchett
#33. Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference.
Penn Jillette
#34. The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.
Oprah Winfrey
#35. You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.
Gregory David Roberts
#36. There are moments in 'Body Snatchers' that touch the sort of thing that I find scary ... like isolation and the inability to trust even familiar things. But - is that a horror movie - or a thriller? I don't really know the difference.
Christine Elise
#37. America does not know the difference between money and sex. It treats sex like money because it treats sex as a medium of exchange, and it treats money like sex because it expects its money to get pregnant and reproduce.
Peter Kreeft
#38. It's hard to take someone seriously when they leave you a note saying, 'Your ugly.' My ugly what? The idiot didn't even know the difference between your and you're.
Cara Lynn Shultz
#39. Ethics doesn't require us to ignore our self-interests or demand a life of self-sacrifice. It requires that we know the difference between what we want and what we should do
Michael Josephson
#40. We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#41. Bungee Jump is to Suicide as General Anaesthetic is to Lethal Injection. You only know the difference on the way back up.
Matt Greene
#42. burro, burrow: A /burro/ is an ass. A /burrow/ is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the difference.
United Press International
#43. We must know the difference between sweat and tears. Sweat is wet. Tears are wet. Sweat is salty. Tears are salty. But progress comes through sweat. Progress never came through tears.
Jesse Jackson
#44. People didn't know the difference between a blue line and a clothes line.
Al Michaels
#45. I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)
Eve Ensler
#46. A simple man will have only what he needs, and he will know the difference between what he needs and what he wants. We feel that whatever we want, we desperately need. But before we possess the world, to our wide surprise we see that the world has already possessed us.
Sri Chinmoy
#47. You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked. When you tell a psychiatrist his mental institution came from a lazar house, he becomes infuriated.
Michel Foucault
#48. Oh mothers you will have made the little tykes
so happy because if nobody does pick them up in the movies
they won't know the difference
and if somebody does it'll be sheer gravy
Frank O'Hara
#49. He mashed hundreds of cakes of GI soap into the sweet potatoes just to show that people have the taste of Philistines and don't know the difference between good and bad.
Joseph Heller
#50. You make experiments and I make theories. Do you know the difference? A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
{Remark to scientist Herman Francis Mark}
Albert Einstein
#51. In all times of emotional disturbance or indecision, we can pause, ask for quiet, and in the stillness simply say: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Thy will, not mine, be done.
Alcoholics Anonymous
#52. Do you know the difference between the first love and the last? It's this: you always think the first love is the last and the last the first...
Tove Jansson
#53. Maybe that's what the night is for, just so's we can know the difference when the light comes again.
Howard Bahr
#54. I would love to do a cookery show and cookery books. I'm not a professional cook, but I can definitely cook. I know the difference between good and bad cooking. I mean, when I was in 'Big Brother' I was the glorified cook of the house, so if I got offered my own show - then why not?
Shilpa Shetty
#55. What's the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don't know the difference.
James Caan
#56. If you don't know the difference between theology and religious
studies, then you're a theologian.
Brian Bocking
#57. It's really easy to figure out why I love what I love, the holidays and food. I know the difference between having them and not having them.
Sandra Lee
#58. Mitt Romney and I know the difference between protecting a program, and raiding it. Ladies and gentlemen, our nation needs this debate. We want this debate. We will win this debate.
Paul Ryan
#59. I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.'
Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods
Good and Evil.
Graham Greene
#60. I asked him, "Do you know the difference between nude and naked?"
He shook his head.
"Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless.
Larry Niven
#61. The last person who wrote about me for the Wall Street Journal didn't even know the difference between machine memory and a floppy!
Brent Schlender
#62. I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.
Steve Wozniak
#63. Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn't right to be governor of Texas, why should he be president?
Dick Cheney
#64. Do you want to know the difference between a good story and the truth? ... The little bits, Robert Morgan.That's all. If you get those right, you can get away with murder.
Tiffany Baker
#65. The success is relative so is the happiness. The struggle is absolute so is its journey. When you know the difference, you will be contented.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#66. I don't know the difference between a hippie and a hipster but, it's fun to watch either one of them get beat up.
Norm MacDonald
#67. In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.
Neal Shusterman
#68. Know the difference between your necessary and discretionary expenses.
Alexa Von Tobel
#69. It belongs to an Uptown attorney. What a horse's ass. Thinks he's so smart. He doesn't know the difference between piss and perfume. I'll have fun returning that to him. Maybe I'll drop by his house at dinnertime.
Ruta Sepetys
#70. I want to invade the space all around you until everywhere you look all you see is me." I trace my tongue along the delicate curves of her ear and she sighs. "I want to occupy the space inside you until you don't know the difference between my heartbeat and yours. I want to be your everything.
Cassia Leo
#71. It's people's own prerogative to be able to look at something and know the difference between 'this is what someone looks like with make-up on' and 'this is what they look like in real life.'
Erin Heatherton
#72. I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.
Adolph Rupp
#73. I know the difference between journalism and a slogan.
Aaron Brown
#74. A friend asks if I know the difference between a saint and a martyr: A saint is someone who radiates goodness and bears no faults. A martyr is someone who lives with a saint.
Michael Novak
#75. Black women, white women- all of them. I'm colorblind. I don't know the difference. I only know you're a human being and you're my children.
Moms Mabley
#76. There's good random, and there's bad random. There's good silly and there's bad silly, and you've gotta know the difference.
Conan O'Brien
#77. That great philosopher anonymous once said, never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.
Tucker Carlson
#78. I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.
Kristin Hersh
#79. I can't be that person anymore, not now that I know the difference.
Rebecca Donovan
#80. Do you know the difference between a hero and a martyr?" Quentin shook his head. "A hero is alive," Father Harry said. "A martyr is not.
Scott Sigler
#81. Sam to Jory I knew the difference then, I know the difference now. You're it, you're home for me. If it's not you, it won't be anybody. I can't settle, it's all or nothing.
Mary Calmes
#82. If you want to be successful on the right side, when it comes to money, you have got to know the difference between facts and opinions. You must know numbers. You must know the facts.
Robert Kiyosaki
#83. I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them.
George W. Bush
#84. She pictured how it would feel to trust your instincts in a strange land, to know the difference between where you had been and where you were going.
Jodi Picoult
#85. You soon know the difference between a real newspaper and an electronic one as soon as a fly won't leave you alone.
Jeremy Lee
#86. They gave you that trophy so you wouldn't feel bad, not because you deserved it. You should know the difference.
Mindy Kaling
#87. True men of this world do not wish. They change that which they know can be changed, they accept what cannot, and they always strive for the wisdom to know the difference.
Sigmund Brouwer
#88. Because the union of a man and woman deserves an honored place in our society, I support the protection of marriage against activist judges. And I will continue to appoint federal judges who know the difference between personal opinion and the strict interpretation of the law.
George W. Bush
#89. If we don't find what we seek what happen then? Nothing? Everything? Are we set free by our failure, or are we doomed because we failed to find the answer that would have saved us? And how are we supposed to know the difference?
Anne Bishop
#90. May I nurture the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can change and wisdom to know the difference
Frank Ra
#91. Martha: Truth or illusion, George; you don't know the difference.
George: No, but we must carry on as though we did.
Martha: Amen.
Edward Albee
#92. Gallantry," he often told his men, "is an act of great courage under fire, of bravery beyond the call of duty. But if it kills your comrades as well or puts the battle in jeopardy, then it is arrant pride and foolishness. Learn to know the difference.
Charles Todd
#93. Confident women know the difference between a man that keeps them around because they are in love with them vs. keeping them around because they are use to them.
Shannon L. Alder
#94. When u have a long phone bill...
U r in love
When u have a unlimited free plan...
U r in relationship
Know the difference
Subhasis Das
#95. It's like we each have a wall that separates our dreams from reality, but mine has cracks in it. The dreams can wriggle and squeeze their way through, until it's hard to know the difference.
Nathan Filer
#96. You can't just walk into someone's house and take $15 bucks out of someone's wallet and then walk out with their song. You can't do that. You got to know the difference between stealing from being cool to the band and paying them what they're deserved.
Richard Patrick
#97. Never hire anyone who starts a sentence with the word "Dude!" and never work for a guy who doesn't know the difference between mute and moot
Larry Brooks
#98. Pity is like lust ... both like to masquerade as love and it's powerfully hard to know the difference when you're in the throes of it.
Michelle Black
#99. But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.
Rachel Cohn
#100. What Hitchens should have written is: I wouldn't know the difference between conceptualism and realism, essentially and accidentally ordered causal series, Aristotle and Hume, etc., even if I were intellectually honest; but then, neither will the book reviewer at the New York Times, so who cares?
Edward Feser
