Quotes About Recognition

It is time someone put in a good word for the petite bourgeoise. Unlike the working class and capitalists, who have never lack for spokespersons, the petite bourgeoise rarely, if ever, speaks for itself.

The Holy One's nearness, the readiness to name the Holy One as God, and the recognition of God as Father.

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

Indeed our survival and liberation depend upon our recognition of the truth when it is spoken and lived by the people. If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth. To know the truth is to appropriate it, for it is not mainly reflection and theory. Truth is divine action entering our lives and creating the human action of liberation.

I have intelligent and very successful women lined up around the block stalking me but without one remembering their roots it's no dice to me

Like a moth, Rene was attracted to the flame of fame

Celebrities seek fame. They take actions to get attention. Most often, the actions they take have no particular moral content.

Late in his life, Rene complained of living a life of a celebrity one minute and a "John Doe" the next.

Next time I'll pat you on the freaking back for stating the obvious.

It was her. It was Teresa.

Hey, I'm Newt," the boy whispered. "And I know bloody well who you are.

I know you," Gally added without looking back. "I saw you in the Changing, and I'm gonna figure out who you are.

Stephen, Stephen, Stephen. My name is Stephen.

Then the strangest thing happened. Thomas looked out the window and saw a banged-up Crank staring at him from twenty feet away. It took him a second to register that the Crank was his friend. Newt. CHAPTER 55 Newt looked horrible.

Thomas shivered. He would know that voice anywhere. It was Janson.

I was inside out of myself and something was given a life-mission to say to me hungrily over and over and over your moves are exactly right for a few things in this world: we know you when you come Green Eyes, Green Eyes.

The Earth was never seen as a whole until astronauts viewed it for us from outside, and then we saw something very different from our expectation of a mere planet-sized ball of rock existing within a thin layer of air and water. Some astronauts, especially those who travelled as far as the moon, were deeply moved and saw the Earth itself as their home. Somehow we have to think like them and expand our instinctive recognition of life to include the Earth.

You will surely smile with me when I say, 'Thank God one can still recognise self-pity as such and not give it any greater dignity than just that.

In Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge, Edelman theorizes that the human brain's astonishing interconnectivity produces consciousness and, because of the astronomical number of associations our brains are capable of making, pattern recognition is the basis not just for metaphorical thinking but for all thinking.

If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth.

That of which we are not aware, owns us.

Little world, full of little people shouting for recognition, screaming for love, Rolling world, teeming with millions, carousel of the hungry, Is there food enough? Wheat and corn will not do. The fat are the hungriest of all, the skinny the most silent.

Almost fifty years later, some members of the Resistance group with whom Beckett had gone out on sorties towards the end of hostilities did not know that he had been active earlier with another Resistance group in Paris or that, after the war, he had received the Croix de Guerre and the Médaille de la Reconnaissance for his contribution there.

I just saw a squirrel I used to know, but I'm not sure he recognized me. Last line of 'Season of the Witch