Quotes About Recognition

It was a lovely autumn day with a blue sky: I made my way through a lead-coloured world, and I realized that my mother's accident was affecting me far more than I had thought it would. I could not really see why. It had wrenched her out of the framework, the role, the set of images in which I had imprisoned her: I recognized her in this patient in bed, but I did not recognize either the pity or the kind of disturbance that she aroused in me.

Among human beings, only the existence of those we love is fully recognized. Belief in the existence of other human beings as such is love.

We should not seize upon these mysteries as truths, for that is impossible, but recognize the subordination to these mysteries which we love of all that we seize upon as truths. The intelligence can recognize this subordination by feeling that the love of these mysteries is the source of conceptions which it can seize upon as truths. Such should be the relationship between faith and love.

Affliction compels us to recognize as real what we do not think possible.

Parmi les êtres humains, on ne reconnait pleinement l'existence que de ceux qu'on aime. La croyance à l'existence d'autres êtres humains comme tels est amour.

Set your deeds throughout the world that everyone may greet you.

Faithful service is often unnoticed by men but it never remains unnoticed by God.

In matrimonial geography the distance between the first mute recognition of a break and the admission thereof is as great as the distance between the first naive faith and the first doubting.

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

El mundo está lleno de cosas obvias, que nadie por casualidad alguna vez observa.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognises genius.

Because I know what it feels like to be used, valued only for what you can do... not who you are, not who you want to be.

Wow. I've never been a VIP before. I've never even been a IP.

These academic guys have to feel important. They give papers and present TV programs to show they're useful and valuable. But you do useful, valuable work every day. You don't need to prove anything. How many people have you treated? Hundreds. You've reduced their pain. You've made hundreds of people happier. Has Antony Tavish made anyone happier?" I'm sure there's something wrong

fallen asleep, because I could have sworn I was receiving an Oscar from the Queen.

Honeysuckle and jasmine!" I exclaim in sudden recognition. I have the Jo Malone bath oil at home.

Of course! I'm far more used to working with a Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a Nimbus 2000." Trish peers at me in surprise. "Isn't that the broomstick out of Harry Potter?" Damn. I knew I'd heard it somewhere. "Yes Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it is," I say at last, my face flaming. "And also a well-known ironing board. In fact, I think the broomstick was named Ã¢â'¬Â¦ er Ã¢â'¬Â¦ after the ironing board.

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

Sophocles had his full share of such rewards, for we have evidence that he won the first prize at the Dionysia eighteen times, and it is recorded that he never won the third prize.

What grief can crown this grief? It's mine alone, my destiny—I am Oedipus!

Do not expect peace with the enemy whose worth you do not recognize.

I was very lucky to get well known much later in life. You need to have flopped quite a few times to get a sense of how little any of it has to do with you.

In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.

I feel like the Internet has embraced the pizza dance. I feel appreciated for once in my life.