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Quotes About Recognition

during the winter of 2012–2013, the Federal Court ruled that Métis and non– Status Indians had the same rights as Status Indians under the Constitution. This gives
~ John Ralston Saul
As free persons, citizens recognize one another as having the moral power to have a conception of the good. This means that they do not view themselves as inevitably tied to the pursuit of the particular conception of the good and its final ends which they espouse at any given time.
~ John Rawls
Yeah," Smalls said. "That's the guy.
~ John Sandford
I'm continually confronted with the human tendency to ignore or deny facts until the last possible instant. And then for several days after that, too." Attavio
~ John Scalzi
The Fflict recognized five genders: male, female, zhial, yal, and neuter. Aul was zhial, and ze liked zis pronouns accurately stated. I would too, in zis position.
~ John Scalzi
And so, for coolness under pressure, for giving the rest of the away team the time it needed to get Ion safely back to the helicopter, and for having the absolute nerve to ignore Riddu Tagaq, I am proud and happy to award Jamie Gray the Ancient and Sacred Order of Holy Shit Jamie Just Shot That Parasite Straight in the Mouth with a Canister Launcher.
~ John Scalzi
I don't know that it will matter even then," Cardenia said. "I'm continually confronted with the human tendency to ignore or deny facts until the last possible instant. And then for several days after that, too.
~ John Scalzi
Then Dahl remembered that until that very second, absolutely none of that was true.
~ John Scalzi
What I owe those I kill is understanding. I owe them the courtesy of recognition; acknowledgement that they were something other than just another thing I had to kill on the way to other things I had to kill.
~ John Scalzi
Hul loitered in the general cabin, and six fellow members of the Fflict species as the rescue team. The Fflict recognized five genders: male, female, zhial, yal, and neuter. Aul was zhial, and ze liked zis pronouns accurately stated. I would too, in zis position.
~ John Scalzi
They look like terrain, until they don't." Tom pointed to one of them. "That's Kevin." "Really?" Niamh said. "Fucking Kevin?
~ John Scalzi
If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.
~ John Steinbeck
Abra was ready ere I called her name. And though I called another, Abra came.
~ John Steinbeck
I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some effection, but with Montana it is love.
~ John Steinbeck
You must name a thing before you can note it on your hand drawn map.
~ John Steinbeck
They fell into a silence. They looked at one another, amazed. This thing they had never really believed in was coming true.
~ John Steinbeck
They were glad and proud and humble to be men in a world where men were valuable.
~ John Steinbeck
I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
~ John Steinbeck
I was told that since my photograph was as widely distributed as my publisher could make it, I would find it impossible to move about without being recognized. Let me say in advance that in over ten thousand miles, in thirty-four states, I was not recognized even once.
~ John Steinbeck
I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen." ? John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
~ John Steinbeck
Mack's eyes looked off into space and his lips were parted. He could see it all. "Hughie," he said, "I think you got something there. I never would of thought you could do it, but by God you really rang a duck that time.
~ John Steinbeck
when people have heard of you, favorably or not, they change; they become, through shyness or the other qualities that publicity inspires, something they are not under ordinary circumstances
~ John Steinbeck
Through his portrayal of Jim Nolan's self-discovery of his leadership capabilities in In Dubious Battle, Steinbeck is making a case for the recognition of his own talent.
~ John Steinbeck
No act is so private it does not seek applause.
~ John Updike