Quotes About Recognition

And yet...somehow she knew that she'd seen him before. It was more the effect he had on her than anything about his appearance. It was like he gave off a scent that made her want to run headlong into trouble.

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability." (I

Wie tussen de mensen heeft geleefd, en nog altijd uitkijkt naar een onverwachte gebeurtenis, die heeft niets begrepen en zal nooit iets begrijpen. Hij is rijp voor de Stad: alles moet hem worden aangeboden, alle posten en alle eerbetoon - en dat verklaart de duurzaamheid van die ondermaanse hel.

Quién dicen los hombres que soy yo?

The next year, when he'd won first prize for spelling and was given a wooden pencil-case whose sliding top doubled as a ruler, Mrs Wilson had rubbed the top of his head and praised him, as though he was one of her own. 'You're a credit to yourself,' she'd told him. And for a whole day or more, Furlong had gone around feeling a foot taller, believing, in his heart, that he mattered as much as any other child.

An indefinite longing, that she had been only vaguely conscious of at times before, became now a recognizable wish. It was so absurd, so embarrassing a desire, that Therese thrust it from her mind.

cannot recognize attitudes and beliefs

Government cannot make us equal it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.

Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow superior to the person praised, they need to feel they are making some concession.

Will this story someday become my own congealing? How do I know. If there's any truth in it—and of course the story is true though invented—may everyone recognize it in himself because all of us are one and he who is not poor in money is poor in spirit or longing because he lacks something more precious than gold—there are those who lack the delicate essential.

It's like this: only when man takes notice through his simple gaze does a beginning appear to him.

Eles olhavam e não a viam. Ela fazia mais sombra do que existia.

Em mim um sentimento de grande espera havia crescido, e uma resignação surpreendida: é que nesta espera atenta eu reconhecia todas as minhas esperas anteriores, eu reconhecia a atenção de que também antes vivera, a atenção que nunca me abandona e que em última análise talvez seja a coisa mais colada à minha vida – quem sabe aquela atenção era a minha própria vida.

I always give names to things

Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

We want to choose one but to be chosen by all.

To see, we must forget the name of the things we are looking at

How difficult is it for one body to feel the injustice wheeled at another? Are the tensions, the recognitions, the disappointments, and the failures that exploded in the riots too foreign?

And still you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description.

The sadness lives in the recognition that a life cannot matter: Or; as there are billions of lives, my sadness is alive alongside the recognition that billions of lives never mattered.

The man doesn't acknowledge you as you sit down because the man knows more about the unoccupied seat than you do. For him, you imagine, it is more like breath than wonder; he has had to think about it so much you wouldn't call it thought.

The sadness lives in the recognition that a life cannot matter: Or; as there are billions of live, my sadness is alive alongside the recognition that billions of lives never mattered.

And you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description.

And you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description. I