Quotes About Recognition

Yes, I still think of him as that, call him that. It's as real as any of his other names.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Paul Mokko avait été proclamé Sauveur du pays, parce qu'il avait le jour même tenu tête aux travailleurs: «Il a schlagué tous ces sales rats», disait-on. Et j'appris que grâce aux lézards, il avait été décoré ; et que par un tour de notaire, il avait arraché à deux «galeux» de l'Est une tranche du pays, et qu'on l'avait élu maire le jour même ; et que déjà l'île tout entière voyait en lui une «lumière».

Too many people overvalue what they are, and undervalue what they are not.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

It?s always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.

we would all like to be taken for what we would like to be

We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings. We are fighting for… human rights.

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?

everyone else got lumped into the WAME category like we were all one big, homogenous mass and not worthy of distinct categorization.

Move back," President Clinton said. "Let this mother through. Don't you know who this is?

Wo Gott als Gott erkannt wird, dort will er als erstes den Dank seiner Geschöpfe.

Die eigenen Wege führen im Kreise immer zu uns selbst zurück. Aber wenn Gott unsere Wege leitet, dann führen sie zu ihm. Gott leitet uns durch Glück und Unglück – immer nur zu Gott. Daran erkennen wir Gottes Wege.

You will grow to be hated when you become well known.

Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.

Where it concerned history, she saw things that people seldom did.

You see, that which is exposed to the exterior... is smooth and dry and clean. That which is not... underneath, is slimy and filled with fungus and crawling with worms. It is another life that is parallel to the one we manifest. It's there. The way worms are underneath the stone. If you don't recognize it... (whispering) it eats you.-That is my opinion.-Well, who is ready for lunch?

Sólo el reconocimiento de la igualdad permite asociar la libertad de cada uno a la fraternidad de todos, el individuo a la relación, bajo su forma plenamente realizada. Hay

It is like casting our pearls before swine. Swine are not evil; they are simply ignorant of the worth of pearls and trample upon them unaware.

I remember walking the dog one day, I saw a car full of teenage girls, and one of them rolled down the window and yelled, 'Marc Jacobs!' in a French accent.

I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized.

Não é verdade que a felicidade é aquilo que procuramos sem nunca sermos capazes de a reconhecer?

Les gens ne font déjà pas attention aux autres, alors à leurs ombres...