Recognizing Quotes
332 quotes by 308 authors
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Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.
— Jose Saramago
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
— Madame de Stael
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You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It's funny because when I was…
— Josh Turner
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I think I've gotten more attention after the Olympics than any other U.S. athlete, and it's really great that people are recognizing who I am…
— Johnny Weir
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Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
— Steve Wozniak
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I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to his left. Then…
— Haruki Murakami
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Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are…
— Wangari Maathai
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If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It…
— Kathleen Norris
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I think that nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individual’s natural right to property, and giving individuals a sense…
— Milton Friedman
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In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep…
— Douglas Coupland
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[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.
— Charles de Lint
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There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves
— Margaret Mead
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How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were…
— R A Salvatore
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Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things that lay about…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.
— Joss Whedon
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Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Recognizing and confronting our history is important. Transcending our history is essential. We are not limited by what we have done, or what we have…
— George W. Bush
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It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.
— Jonathan Franzen
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The nice thing about twitter is the architecture of visibility. Email is invisible unless you reach out to someone directly. With Twitter, anyone can follow…
— Tim O'Reilly
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But like a gambler at a slot machine, hoping the next spin would change her life for the better, she closed in before she lost…
— Nicholas Sparks
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