Quotes About Recognition

Most saw those walls as protection from danger, but I had recognized, somewhere deep in my soul, that not all threats came from without.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

Just because you forget the world does not mean that the world forgets you.

You've changed," he said. "You're-uh-" "Yes?" "Taller." "I hope so. I was ten the last time you saw me." "And your hair's really dark now-and short," he added.

A man must have succeeded in something to be happy, but a woman must be needed.

For one thing, she hadn't exactly chosen a field; although she has since childhood imagined picking up her Oscar, the category has never been determined. There was some thought that by the time she grew up they would give out Oscars for Best Novel (and that by then she would have written one), or that maybe she would just get some kind of honorary Oscar for her distinctive life observations made in everyday conversations, or the occasional letter.

Ah, medals," put in Monty disparagingly. "Medals are given to men who happen to be in the right place at the right time, that is all.

When Robert brought to the table a covered plate and lifted the lid with an excited flourish, Tim played second fiddle to a cake for the first time in his life.

There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes one's own.

I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.

Those upon whom her eyes rested immediately thought the world of themselves, for it was obvious that she saw with one glance all the good in them to which their own families seemed so strangely blind.

So when it happened suddenly this was how it happened. She had often wondered. But the magazine stories had got it all wrong. It was not an affair of sudden heartbeats, and hot and cold flushes, as though one were going to have influenza, it was just this quiet recognition. But in the approach of love there must be a sharpness, for that moment of beauty that had come down like a sword had cut her life in two. When she crossed the bridge she had crossed from her girlhood to womanhood.

If people stop looking at you, do you cease to exist? Does it mean you're not a person any more? Does it mean you're already dead?

Those who think themselves entitled to everything, often find themselves entitled to nothing.

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

An act may be wrong, but unless the ruling power recognizes the wrong, it is useless to hope for a correction of it.

Lyell became something of a celebrity—the Steven Pinker of his generation—and

He moved closer to her. "You did not have to get me anything. The fact that you did means I have been in your thoughts. I am thankful for that.

I pulled my wallet out and placed it on the bar, trying not to inhale as her scent wrapped around me. How had I not recognized it earlier? It was so strong, so sweet and familiar. So Clare. I breathed in slowly; she smelled like home.... Uh-oh, I'm in big trouble.

Can you stop calling me kid?" I snapped. "It may have escaped your attention, but I am not actually a child." The left corner of his mouth crept upward. "It hasn't escaped my attention.

The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.

Is everything here alive?" She asked, picking up a brush "Hello, what's your name?" Cogsworth looked at Belle and shook his head "um... that's a hairbrush

Reflected glory is just as good as the real thing

Then I heard someone laugh. I wished I didn't know whose laugh it was, but I knew Will's laugh just like I knew he had a small scar right above his left elbow. You couldn't be reluctantly lust-ridden for someone without noticing stuff about them.