Quotes About Recognition

When you've learned to both see and not see the resemblance, then you see the uniqueness.

Seeing race is always about discriminating, a discerning, trained eye recognizing the essential or defining characteristic in the individual that confers racial categorization.

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.

No credit given for all the extra miles that take you nowhere.

How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

To be here was to be known. If Lee County isn't that, it's nothing.

Odds are about a hundred to one, you are not destined for greatness. Your people will appreciate you all the same.

Her mark on history: the female acquaintance.

She remembered the wanted posters for Joanne Little, Angela Davis, and Assata Shakur. She blushed at putting herself in such important company, then wondered if the sheriff's office appreciated the distinction.

For cafeteria workers far and wide. We love you guys!

Denial has no survival value.' If you're going to play, you have to at least recognize what the game is.

The front door opened again. I glanced up and saw Karate. Christ, I thought. The gang's all here.

There's a saying I like. 'Denial has no survival value.' If you're going to play, you have to at least recognize what the game is.

What cops call hunches," Trahan said, "FBI hackers call pattern recognition.

It was fascinating, how people could be so reluctant to recognize blackmail, how eager they could be to convince themselves it was something else, even something fundamentally mutually cooperative. And sometimes it seemed the more powerful the individual, the greater the capacity for self-deception. He

And one can better understand figures in arctic exploration so obsessed with their own achievement that they found it irksome to acknowledge the Eskimos, unnamed companions, and indefatigable dogs who helped them.

But is he the kind of Christian that Jesus would recognize?

is perhaps best to think of the Senate recognizing a divine figure who had been in their midst rather than making someone divine.

He didn't just dig me; he dug me the MOST. Nothing can compare to hearing something like that from a seventeen-year-old kid who looks like he might be fully awake for the first time in his academic career.

Then they were all standing and applauding, yeah, they were giving him a fucking standing O, and in their faces he saw what every poet or would-be poet hopes to see when he or she finished reading: the faces of people suddenly awakened from a dream brighter than any reality.

The cult of celebrity is cogitative shit running through the bowel of the intellect.

But most of all they only say you were caught, that you wanted to be King, that it must be so.

The shock of recognition is a moment of excitement that shakes the soul. It may be hard to describe, but like other forms of love, you will know it when you feel it