Recognised Quotes
140 quotes by 135 authors
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I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other…
— Tony Abbott
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An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
— Samuel Alexander
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I…
— A. R. Ammons
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My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for supporting me.
— Tori Amos
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When faced with world problems - like hunger, overpopulation, nuclear weapons, the arms trade - you may be among those who are overwhelmed by a…
— Scilla Elworthy
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As financial market players know, advantage comes from reacting to news first. The same thing is true for all companies. When you start the conversation,…
— David Meerman Scott
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When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when the evil effects…
— John D. Rockefeller
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Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which…
— Charles Babbage
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If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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If I have put the case of science at all correctly, the reader will have recognised that modern science does much more than demand that…
— Karl Pearson
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The country is now universally recognised as a nation on the move and takes its place amongst the successful economies in the region. The future…
— Ratan Tata
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It was a great step in science when men became convinced that, in order to understand the nature of things, they must begin by asking,…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain. But…
— Frederick Soddy
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I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I am 'so-and-so's niece'…
— Carey Mulligan
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Good people are seldom fully recognised during their lifetimes, and here, there are serious problems of corruption. One day it will be realised that my…
— Alice Stewart
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There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a…
— Niels Bohr
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It's something I've always wanted - to be known as an Australian. When I was younger I was always referred to as an Aboriginal tennis…
— Evonne Goolagong Cawley
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People with disabilities want to be recognised for what they can do, not what they can't do.
— Karni Liddell
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I suppose, because I am a sportsman and travel all over Australia, I see every day Australians doing small and large and often unnoticed deeds;…
— Steve Waugh
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We are at last being recognised as the indigenous people of this country whom must share in its future. This is not a day of…
— Galarrwuy Yunupingu
Who Wrote These Recognised Quotes
135 authors contributed a total of 140 Recognised Quotes, led by these top contributors: