Quotes About Recognition

The scream lasted for about a heartbeat, and then recognition flooded in—and relief. "Oliver?" Great. She was relieved to see Oliver. The world was officially topsy-turvy, cats were living with dogs, and life as she knew it was probably over.

That's incredible...I don't know--okay, well, you know, nobody's probably voting for me. I mean, I'm not Richard. I haven't gone out of my way to be responsible or anything.

It was like a shadow had brushed over me, but a shadow on my soul, not on my skin. Took me a second to identify what it was, but I recognized the feeling instinctively: Nadim. And Nadim was sad. It felt weird. And at the same time, it felt like something I'd always, unconsciously, needed-sound, where there'd only been silence. Presence, where there'd been loneliness.

As Albert Schweitzer has said, "Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

I KNOW! Your name is Beckham, isn't it?

He gave a hum of recognition. 1657. The early days of the readmission of Jews to England, after nearly four centuries of official expulsion.

he had not the slightest idea who he was without praise, without steady advancement toward a degree and title, without organized competition for some elite goal?

They just want to be liked. Being liked is their . . . sugar rush.

For the greatest happiness of women is to be right one day, one hour, one second after being wrong all their lives...apparently.

we're all part of nature. Some day the world will recognize this…

Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

As they have taught me, I believe that without asking, we are given all we need. We must have the wit and wisdom to recognize the strengths and tools at our command, and find the courage to do what must be done.

As I turned to leave the tent, she said, Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you. I said, She never has.

Denial couldn't be maintained.

In life, little happens by chance, and most bad hands we're dealt are the consequence of our actions, which are shaped by our wisdom and our ignorance. In my experience, survival depends on hoping for the best while recognizing that disaster is more likely and that it can't be averted if it can't be imagined.

The more familiar that a place becomes, the more mysterious it becomes, as well, if you are alert to the truth of things.

because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth.

People go through life failing to see all sorts of amazing things because they aren't expecting to see them.

To generations of the willfully blind, true beauty can remain unseen in plain sight, but beauty sooner or later asserts itself—always, always, always—and is at last recognized, because there's so damn little of it.

pity very often—not always—comes with an unspoken and sometimes unrecognized element of contempt.

The more familiar that a place becomes, the more mysterious it becomes, as well, if you are alert to the truth of things. I have found this to be the case all of my life.

Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...

In our lives, we come to moments of great significance that we fail to recognise, the meaning of which sometimes does not occur to us for many years.

Yes, she was a dog, but not only a dog. I am a man, but not only a man. Sentiment is not sentimentality, common sense is not common ignorance, and intuition is not superstition. Living with a recognition of the spiritual dimension of the world not only ensures a happier life but also a more honest intellectual life than if we allow no room for wonder and refuse to acknowledge the mystery of existence.