Quotes About Recognition

She had no ambition to write a good book, but was painfully anxious to write a book that the critics should say was good.

The love of titles is common to all men, and a vicar or a fellow is as pleased at becoming Mr. Archdeacon or Mr. Provost, as a lieutenant at getting his captaincy, or a city tallow-chandler in becoming Sir John on the occasion of a Queen's visit to a new bridge.

three o'clock Phineas was acknowledged to be

Time had been when friends had thought it possible that he might fill the President's chair; but his name had been too much and too long in men's mouths for that. Who had heard of Lincoln, Pierce, or Polk, two years before they were named as candidates for the Presidency?

She had no ambition to write a good book, but was painfully anxious to write a book that the critics should say was good. Had

CHAPTER LXXIII 'IS IT TANTI?

You've read some of my stuff?" he asked eagerly, adding with bitterness, " 'The Raven,' I suppose. Such fame as I have appears to rest entirely on the plumage of that gloomy bird.

The bigger problem was that I couldn't see that I had a problem." Bud paused for a moment, and then, leaning toward me, he said in a lower, even more earnest tone, "There is no solution to the problem of lack of commitment, for example, without a solution to the bigger problem — the problem that I can't see that I'm not committed.

The bigger problem was that I couldn't see that I had a problem.

That's usually the case. Identify someone with a problem, and you'll be identifying someone who resists the suggestion that he has one. That's self-deception — the inability to see that one has a problem.

It is not a good feeling being right about something you have suspected when you finally gain undeniable confirmation that it's true. It is not the satisfying sensation of everything slipping into place for which you have yearned. It's more like, Oh, right.

The Supreme Court could have said, You're just these fringe women in combat boots. But they didn't.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

Civil strife is caused not only by inequality of property, but also by inequality of honors

Recognition, as the name indicates, is a change from ignorance to knowledge, producing love or hate between the persons destined by the poet for good or bad fortune.

Besides which, the most powerful elements of emotional interest in Tragedy — Peripeteia or Reversal of the Situation, and Recognition scenes — are parts of the plot.

Two parts, then, of the Plot — Reversal of the Situation and Recognition — turn upon surprises. A third part is the Scene of Suffering. The Scene of Suffering is a destructive or painful action, such as death on the stage, bodily agony, wounds and the like.

There are four kinds of Tragedy, the Complex, depending entirely on Reversal of the Situation and Recognition; the Pathetic (where the motive is passion), — such as the tragedies on Ajax and Ixion; the Ethical (where the motives are ethical), — such as the Phthiotides and the Peleus.

You have to respect yourself before you can command a guy's respect.

Never take things for granted. Never ignore what is obvious.

They would probably never even know that the human race existed. Such monumental indifference was worse than any deliberate insult. When

Fifty years is ample time in which to change a world and its people almost beyond recognition. All that is required for the task are a sound knowledge of social engineering, a clear sight of the intended goal—and power.

He had reached the position where neither personal possessions nor official ceremony could add anything to his stature.