Quotes About Acknowledgment

But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived? His

VALENE: Father Walsh, now... COLEMAN: Father Walsh, Father Walsh... WELSH (exiting, screaming): Me name's Welsh!!!

Everyone should know what it is like to be called by name. By the name of the unique person one is at heart.

Life so often becomes a determined, relentless avoidance of pain - of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain has to be acknowledged and even touched so that one can move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it.

Stanley Hopkins was speechless with amazement. I don't know what to say, Mr. Holmes, he blurted out at last, with a very red face. It seems to me that I have been making a fool of myself from the beginning. I understand now, what I should never have forgotten, that I am the pupil and you are the master. Even now I see what you have done, but I don't know how you did it or what it signifies.

a conjurer gets no credit once he has explained his trick;

If they cannot deny it, they will probably ignore it.

Isn't there one thing I can ask of you that you won't disregard?. . . . You could just reply, Yes, Baron, and be done with it.' Yes, Baron.

It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.

As a character in another Miller play (After the Fall) remarks, the past is holy. Why? Not merely because the present contains the past, but because a moral world depends on an acceptance of the notion of causality, on an acknowledgment that we are responsible for, and a product of, our actions.

Instead they choose to accept their fallibilities. They recognised the simplicity and power of using a checklist.

It did not take long here to realize that some had come just to be seen

You felt the need to say hello. Indeed, it seemed impolite not to do so.

But he agreed that it could not be ruled out.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

Sedan du sålunda fått ditt erkännande av utlänningen, så har du fått ditt namn här hemma naturligtvis och jag slipper gå längre och skämmas för dig.

Hell, I suppose if you stick around long enough they have to say something nice about you.

People never bothered to pay attention to those who served them. Waiters and drivers were the most invisible people in the world.

It takes two to make every great career: the man who is great, and the man-almost rarer-who is great enough to see greatness and say so.

Hank, this is great. Yes. He said it simply, openly. There was no flattered pleasure in his voice, and no modesty. This, she knew, was a tribute to her, the rarest one person could pay another: the tribute of feeling free to acknowledge one's own greatness, knowing that it is understood.

What you feel in the presence of a thing you admire is just one word—'Yes.' The affirmation, the acceptance, the sign of admittance.

Love is the ultimate form of recognition one grants to superlative values.

Oh, but I am quite resigned to taking second place in the shadow of my husband. I am humbly aware that the wife of a great man has to be contented with reflected glory - don't you think so Miss Taggart? No, said Dagny, I don't.

She stopped over the ledge where he worked and she stood watching him openly. When he raised his head, she did not turn away. Her glance told him that she knew the meaning of her action, but did not respect him enough to conceal it. His glance told her only that he had expected her to come.