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Quotes About Recognition

Even if we were mated, I have my own name and I made my own rep. I don't think the term 'mate' should trump everything I've done. I've earned more than that." Jim
~ Ilona Andrews
I couldn't see Jim's face from all the way up here, but I recognized his pose well enough. It was his "what the hell is this bullshit?" pose.
~ Ilona Andrews
You have to let your people take pride in a job well accomplished and recognize them for it. You will get better results.
~ Ilona Andrews
Some people simply live to prove to others that they have more.
~ Ilona Andrews
Lord Megobari," a man announced. I turned. At the far entrance, between two djigits, Hugh d'Ambray strode into the hall.
~ Ilona Andrews
Even a cry in the wilderness must be acknowledged, because someone might have heard it.
~ Ilona Andrews
She knows our rates.
~ Ilona Andrews
We reached the doors and I presented the crew passes to the outside guards. They waved us on to Rene's welcoming arms. Recognition sparked in her eyes. She surveyed Jim and turned to me. "Congratulations, love. You traded up. Does he treat you well?" "He's a teddy bear," I said. Teddy bear looked like he was suffering from murder withdrawal.
~ Ilona Andrews
The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
~ Immanuel Kant
Um fremden Wert willig und frei anzuerkennen, muß man eigenen haben.
~ Immanuel Kant
A prince rarely arrives on a white horse. You'll recognize him all the same.
~ Inglath Cooper
The sense of despair has to remove those barriers one by one, and only then does despair penetrate to the heart of man who gradually recognises the enemy, calls it by name, and is horrified.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
there are now only two people on earth who know who he is." He swung a finger back and forth between them. "Us." He squeezed her hands, held her eyes with his. "That's why it's such—joy for me to be with you again. Not just because you're my mother. Because you know who I am, because I don't have to hide the truth from you! And don't you feel something like that toward me? How
~ Ira Levin
So sickening was the spectacle that even the Nazis in the city were horrified, one proclaiming the massacre to be the work of "bestial machinery." Yet the Rape of Nanking remains an obscure incident. Unlike the atomic explosions in Japan or the Jewish holocaust in Europe, the horrors of the massacre at Nanking remain virtually unknown to people outside Asia. The massacre remains neglected in most of the historical literature published in the United States.
~ Iris Chang
But the spark vanished, there was no longed-for recognition, no dawning sign of recovery. The love she had learnt in tending him was an enclosed love, muted and maimed, already mourning. They would never communicate now.
~ Iris Murdoch
It is unjust, it is so unjust, was her thought. I have never been recognized as myself.
~ Iris Murdoch
éclat. Sadie had éclat; or so the public thought, though personally
~ Iris Murdoch
It's only now that I realize that behaviour always has a context and precedents, it's what you do rather than what you are, although we often never recognise that context or understand what these precedents are.
~ Irvine Welsh
The trouble with people like him is that they think that they can brush off people like me. Like I was nothing. They don't understand the type of world we're living in now, all those menaced souls clamouring for attention and recognition.
~ Irvine Welsh
They don't understand the type of world we're living in now, all those menaced souls clamouring for attention and recognition.
~ Irvine Welsh
What meaning has a compliment if one hears it night and day.
~ Irving Stone
Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.
~ Isaac Asimov
The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.
~ Isaac Asimov
They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do.
~ Isaac Asimov