Quotes About Recognition

I see birthdays as a reward for having shown up 365 in a row. It's like getting a badge for attendance.

We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.

Una mujer, para que se la reconozca como escritora, pintora, investigadora o lo que sea, tiene que hacer veinte veces más que un hombre, tiene que ser una fuera de serie. No hay apenas mujeres reconocidas en ninguna profesión, pero el mundo está lleno de célebres hombres mediocres.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.

If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck.

I burst out with, "Aaron—Bear—" The names are unfamiliar on my tongue, like I've never spoken them before.

My dad always uses this expression: If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck.

The tradition at C Average was to nominate the biggest loser in the building.

Then, in front of the entire Manhattan Coliseum, the winning handler at Global wrapped her arms around Griffin and kissed him.

have done it. I'm not that stupid." The sad part is that Mr. Solway can't find his Medal of

If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck." Well, that isn't always true. It looks like Ambrose, and it talks like Ambrose. But no way that's Ambrose.

you-know-who." Amy

As rich Cahill superstars went, Fidelio Racco was definitely on the B-list. Maybe even the D-list. Google had heard of him, but a search for his surname placed him below Racco Auto Body in Toronto and Trattoria Racco in Florence, and only slightly ahead of the Rack O'Lamb Irish Chop House in Des Moines.

Bay Area Weekly just named me Silicon Valley's Number One Spoiled Brat. Remember, we're talking about California. Think of all the other spoiled brats I had to beat out for that title. Vlad always says I should aim for the best.

Heroes must see to their own fame. No one else will.

I belong to the highest class there is: I'm a third generation celebrity. My grandfather, father, and I have all been on the cover of Time. That's all there is. You can't go any higher in America.

If anyone tried to contradict the statement that what is true is true independently of our recognizing it as such, he would by his very assertion contradict what he had asserted; he would be in a similar position to the Cretan who said that all Cretans are liars.

Oh,' the priest said, 'that's another thing altogether - God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us - God's love. It set fire to a bush in the desert, didn't it, and smashed open graves and set the dead walking in the dark. Oh, a man like me would run a mile to get away if he felt that love around.

Oh, and there was pride, of course. It takes a long time before we cease to feel proud of being wanted.

He was a man one always forgot. To this day I cannot describe him, except his fatness and his powdered clean-shaven cheeks and his big laugh; all his identity escapes me - except that he was called Joe. There are some men whose names are always shortened.

I suppose the confessional teaches a man to recognize hate.

I got a glimpse of something young, dark and happy and not yet spoiled: an animal that didn't yet recognize her captivity.

when the Asian face was illuminated