Quotes About Acknowledgment

There were plenty of mistakes to go around. I just want someone to admit to them.

One must allow other people to be right, he used to say when he was insulted, It consoles them for not being anything else.

I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.

La qualité des applaudissements importe bien davantage que leur nombre.

Walking to the net, I'm certain that I've lost to the better man, the Everest of the next generation. I pity the young players who will have to contend with him. I feel for the man who is fated to play Agassi to his Sampras. Though I don't mention Pete by name, I have him uppermost in my mind when I tell reporters: It's real simple. Most people have weaknesses. Federer has none.

I tell the players: You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, fellas, but none will mean more to you than that applause-from your peers. I hope each of you hears that at the end.

I believe that it is better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked. • Mae West, Belle of the Nineties, 1934

The great difference between the carnal and the spiritual Christian is that the latter acknowledges God, under whatever low and poor and human appearances He manifests Himself.

bravo, bravo!' says Terry. 'That was il magnifico de stupendio!' 'Thank you,' says Mr Big Nose, taking a big bow.

And yay for the Sitter of the Month!

I had a lot to be thankful for.

Surely there must come a time when we will acknowledge the obvious: theology is now little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.

Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

ACCEPTATION  (ACCEPTA'TION)   n.s.[from accept.]1. Reception, whether good or bad. This large sense seems now wholly out of use.

ACCIPIENT  (ACCI'PIENT)   n.s.[accipiens, Lat.] A receiver, perhaps sometimes used for recipient.Dict.

this. Whom should I thank?" "The city of Purcell.

I am indebted to the archivists

Although, pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing.

It happened right then; he looked at me and it was the thing I'd been waiting for but didn't know it. I don't mean anything corny like I fell in love or even into a crush or anything like that. It was more a feeling like when I'd get picked first for volleyball or find one of those stupid school candygrams in my locker. It was knowing someone else thought about me for more than one second, maybe even about me when I wasn't there.

But sometimes you lose. Nothing you can do but admit it. -Eli

I'd done the right thing. I always did. It just would have been nice if someone had noticed.