Quotes About Acknowledgment

It seems unfair not to give credit where credit is due simply because one lacks a certain number of candles on one's birthday cake.

It seems unfair to give credit where credit is due simply because one lacks a certain number of candles on one's birthday cake.

Everybody shows up, not to see their god, but to be seen.

No one acknowledged that she was the one who supported them because a teacher's salary would not cover the cost of living in California

The worst can always be true," Papa said grimly.

If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

When politicians' backs are against the wall, they may reluctantly acknowledge error but not their responsibility for it. The phrase "mistakes were made" is such a glaring effort to absolve oneself of culpability that it has become a national joke—what the political journalist Bill Schneider called the "past exonerative" tense.

HAN: I love you. Another shared look between them, as she smiles at Han. LEIA: I know.

Nicht gesehen, nicht erkannt zu werden, unsichtbar zu sein für andere, ist wirklich die existentiellste Form der Missachtung.

She says you can't pretend you have nothing when you have so much.

The way to get free of pain is to dive down into it. To acknowledge it.

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The endless, unrelieved suffering of so many who are unable to deliver themselves is a reality we can no longer ignore.

Nancy, you're a whiz, as I've often told you," her friend declared.

I think that if I could give a name to what I feel it would go away. Find the word that describes the feeling and say it over and over until it's merely a sound.

Attention, people talking about me: I. Am. Right. Here.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?

That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means, 'I' am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,' but they don't say anything because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain.

You're an idiot." "I've never claimed to be otherwise.

You can only push the truth down for so long, and then it bubbles back up.

Even if God had created us, He would never have admitted it.

All some people want from you is for you to recognize their existence — and not mind it.