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Quotes About Recognition

My body recognized him before my mind did. His arms beat against the water in a brutally efficient butterfly stroke. And his back muscles…
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
That's my girl!" Xander bellowed. "Woman," Max corrected. "That's my woman! In a completely not possessive and absolutely unpatriarchal kind of way!
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
had spent a lifetime treating me like an afterthought, if that. I hadn't seen him in more than a year. But now that I'd inherited billions? There he was.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Do you know why Jameson was daddys favorite when by all rights it should have been perfect, dutiful Grayson?" "It wasn't because my Jamie is brilliant or beautiful or charismatic. It was because Jameson Winchester Hawthorne is hungry.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Zo ken ik mijn meisje weer!' brulde Xander. 'Vrouw,' verbeterde Max hem. 'Zo ken ik mijn vrouw weer! En "mijn" is uiteraard bedoeld op een compleet niet bezitterige en absoluut onpatriarchale manier!' Max hief haar glas. 'Reken maar van faxing yes.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Goed geraden,' antwoordde Alisa. Ze keek even achterom. 'Meneer Hawthorne was zeer gesteld op mensen die goed konden raden.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The fact is, I was sick, but not in an easily explained flu kind of way. It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other recognizable disease just to make it simple for me and also for them. Anything would be better than the truth.
~ Jennifer Niven
Libby Strout, you deserve to be seen.
~ Jennifer Niven
Guys like Ryan Cross have a way of reminding you who you are, even when you don't want to remember.
~ Jennifer Niven
People either see me or they don't.
~ Jennifer Niven
Even monkeys recognize each other
~ Jennifer Niven
The fact is, I was sick, but not in an easily explained flu kind of way. It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other recognizable disease just to make it simple for me and also for them.
~ Jennifer Niven
He touched the funneled brim of his Stetson with two fingers and held open his ID case in the other hand, showing his star. He said, 'Raylan Givens, U.S. Marshals Service.
~ Elmore Leonard
A good investigator doesn't know what he's looking for till he sees it.
~ Elmore Leonard
Piers looked up at him. 'You're new. What's your name?' 'Neythen, my lord.' 'Sounds like a terrible illness. No, more like a bowel problem. I'm sorry, Lord Sandys, your son has contracted neythen and won't live a month. No, no, there's nothing I can do. Sandys would have preferred hearing that to syphilis.
~ Eloisa James
Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.
~ Emerson
In the sudden change that had come over her heart she no longer recognized herself
~ Émile Zola
Whenever they were together, fanfares cleared the way before them and they picked up Paris in one hand and put it calmly in their pocket. (64)
~ Émile Zola
No joy could be greater, they knew, than that of being acknowledged a master, as he was. So he gave up trying to make himself understood and sat listening to them, without a word (79)
~ Émile Zola
Understanding dawned in the Witherspoon's eyes. "Of course, of course." He forced himself to laugh. "You are very clever Mrs. Jeffries. You're onto me.
~ Emily Brightwell
Sin embargo, es incapaz de aceptar a Emily como una artista adulta y consciente, dueña de su propia creación.
~ Emily Bronte
I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
~ Emily Dickinson
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
~ Emily Dickinson
Fame is a bee. It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.
~ Emily Dickinson