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Quotes About Recognition

And Ferris had watched Alec go past him out of the door noted the bones...but he never would have connected that ragged man with the honey-and-acid creature who'd insulted him at Diane's house.
~ Ellen Kushner
One should not try to alter natural law by using force. Recognize the situation. In ancient times when there were serious calamities an emperor often issued a "self-blame decree," a mea culpa, to calm people's indignation. Through self-examination and by being central and steadfast, wait for another cycle from Hindrance to Advance.
~ Alfred Huang
Nada debería tener tanto un economista como el aplauso.
~ Alfred Marshall
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Everything of importance has already been seen by someone who did not discover it.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
To trace the unfamiliar to the familiar ... is to understand.
~ Algernon Blackwood
When some 'blessings come to you, do not drive them away through thanklessness.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
However, this is by no means an argument that prevents us from recognizing the myriad ways in which Muslims are racialized.
~ Ali Rattansi
To be noticed is to be loved.
~ Ali Smith
No one remembering that old man. Except, I just did, there
~ Ali Smith
To be included in someone's absence, it is an honour, and it asks quiet. It asks respect.
~ Ali Smith
Certain white people in particular can look right through young people and also black and mixed race people like we aren't here.
~ Ali Smith
Cause nobody's the slightest idea who we are, or who we were, not even we ourselves - except, that is, in the glimmer of a moment of fair business between strangers, or the nod of knowing and agreement between friends.
~ Ali Smith
It's always nicer, I think, to be a big frog in a little puddle than to be an unrecognised croaker in a great, big pool.
~ Alice B. Emerson
I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street.
~ Alice Barrett
He say, 'You can be somebody if you want.' How the shit he don't know I'm somebody right now? He think he somebody and I'm not.
~ Alice Childress
People who deal in truth themselves recognize it when they hear it, just as people who deal in diamonds recognize a real stone when they see it.
~ Alice Duer Miller
Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of lead poisoning as a real and serious medical problem.
~ Alice Hamilton
I don't want to speak this language that doesn't know me.
~ Alice Notley
somewhere you know but never quite remember
~ Alice Notley
Who wants to see us anyway?
~ Alice Notley
I'm signaling to others that I'm good.
~ Alice Notley
I always wake like this being watched already forgetting who I am
~ Alice Oswald
She often noticed it was only when we shared the same qualities that we recognised them in other people.
~ Alice Thompson