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Quotes About Recognition

where does this new personality come in?" The psychiatrist turned back to her. "Well, again, it's just a guess," he said, "but assuming that it is conversion hysteria stemming from guilt, then the second personality is simply the agent who handles the punishing. If Regan herself were to do it, that would mean she would recognize her guilt. But she wants to escape that recognition. Therefore, a second personality.
~ William Peter Blatty
the meantime, I don't know who you are, but you
~ William Peter Blatty
invention inevitably followed a four-step sequence: Awareness of an unfulfilled need; Recognition of something contradictory or absent in existing attempts to meet the need, which Usher called an "incomplete pattern"; An all-at-once insight about that pattern; and A process of "critical revision" during which the insight is tested, refined, and perfected.
~ William Rosen
A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet.
~ William Shakespeare
Good wine needs no bush.
~ William Shakespeare
We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.
~ William Shakespeare
Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds.
~ William Shakespeare
I have boughtGolden opinions from all sorts of people.
~ William Shakespeare
For new-made honor doth forget men's names.
~ William Shakespeare
I thank you for your voices, thank you,Your most sweet voices.
~ William Shakespeare
O heavens! this is my true-begotten father.
~ William Shakespeare
Remember who commended thy yellow stockings, and wished to see thee ever cross-gartered.
~ William Shakespeare
Polonius: Do you know me, my lord?Hamlet: Excellent well; you are a fishmonger.
~ William Shakespeare
Lear: Dost thou know me, fellow?Kent: No, sir, but you have that in your countenance which I would fain call master.Lear: What's that?Kent: Authority.
~ William Shakespeare
If ladies be but young and fair,They have the gift to know it.
~ William Shakespeare
Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated.
~ William Shakespeare
How should I your true love knowFrom another one?By his cockle hat and staff,And his sandal shoon.
~ William Shakespeare
Hamlet Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel Polonius By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet Or like a whale Polonius Very like a whale.
~ William Shakespeare
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
~ William Shakespeare
Being an icon is overrated, remember an icon can be moved by a mouse
~ William Shatner
I heard a bird congratulating itself all day for being a jay. Nobody cared. But it was glad all over again, and said so, again.
~ William Stafford
We need to realize that without some notion of historical recurrence, no one can meaningfully discuss the past at all.
~ William Strauss
What is involved in such issues, in the end, is learning to respect the freedom of the dead to be dead; honoring the dead in their status as dead people, and refraining from harassment of the dead by refusing to mythologize the dead or enshrine them. What is at stake is recognition by those in grief of the right of the dead to be regarded mortally, which is to say, to be treated humanly in death.
~ William Stringfellow
I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
~ William T. Sherman