Quotes About Acknowledgment

At least she recognizes a good love scene when she sees one.

I think people are very brave and often are a lot more frightened than they're allowed to admit. Life is much harder to live for most people than we want to admit. And so many things take a summoning up of courage. It makes one's own life a little bit easier when you can acknowledge that. -Ursula LeGuin, interviewed by

The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you.

This is reality, and as my loathsome brother Sean would say, I have to deal with it. The

a patriarchal religion with a violent past it has yet to acknowledge and address, a haven for authoritarian leaders and the followers who serve them, happy to exploit the labor and enjoy the adulation of women, people of color, and sexual minorities, but defiant against accepting them as equal partners in ministry.

Turning to Ann Gower, she smiled. "You're a good woman, Ann Gower." Ann Gower drew back and looked askance at Mary. "Don't you go ruinin' me reputation, Mary Abacus. I be a real bad woman, but a bloody good whore, and you knows it!

Reality doesn't wait for our agreement or approval. It is what it is. You can count on it. Gary:

As I often say, if you argue with reality, you lose—but only 100 percent of the time.

have done. I am thankful however for what 1 have

No matter what you think you can be, when you're forced to stop and look at where you actually are, it's pretty depressing. Sometimes, there is no escaping the truth

It's like now that I'm looking for inequality, I'm seeing it everywhere, categorizing a thousand great and small unfairnesses everywhere I go. Why didn't I really see this before?

Sometimes she would be engaged in a laboratory exercise or a seminar when the instructor would say, Gentlemen, let's proceed, and sensing Ellie's frown would add, Sorry, Miss Arroway, but I think of you as one of the boys. The highest compliment they were capable of paying was that in their minds she was not overtly female.

We cannot pretend that the world begins and ends at the boundaries we might make for it. Sometimes, we must acknowledge that it extends itself into our lives in ways we might prefer it wouldn't, and we must face up to the challenges it offers.

you had to settle for what you were given and be grateful.

It is important to accept truths, even when they are inconvenient.

But knowing it and accepting it are two different things.

but I am old. It is important to accept truths, even when they are inconvenient.

My name is immaterial,' she said. That's a pretty name,' said Rincewind.

Oh yes? Can you identify yourself? -Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.

Before you can kill the monster you have to say its name.

There should be a word for the microscopic spark of hope that you dare not entertain in case the mere act of acknowledging it will cause it to vanish, like trying to look at a photon. You can only sidle up to it, lookong past it, walking past it, waiting for it to get big enough to face the world

Captain Quirke looked around the Watch room with the air of one who was doing the scenery a favour by looking at it.

Books've got to have a name on 'em so's everyone knows who's guilty.

The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of trying to escape from our fear, we can invite it up to our awareness and look at it clearly and deeply.