Quotes about Recognition

I hope people'll find out pretty quickly that the guy they saw for 10 years was my sense of humor the whole time.

If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity

The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous.

She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

There are two types of people. People who have accomplished things and people who have claimed to accomplish things. The first group is less crowded.

However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica. Commonplace human nature cannot rise above that.

However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica. Commonplace human nature cannot rise above that.

I suggested then that the prize was not given merely as recognition of past achievement, but also as recognition, a more profound recognition, that the nonviolent way, the American Negro's way, was the answer to the crucial political and moral question of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to violence and oppression.

We were forced to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and to recognize the presence of those great elemental forces which shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilization.

How are you, Watson?" said he, cordially. "I should never have known you under that moustache

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

is obviously high time that the Jewish conception of nature, at any rate in regard to animals, should come to an end in Europe, and that the eternal being which, as it lives in us, also lives in every animal should be recognized as such, and as such treated with care and consideration.