Recognise Quotes

• In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  War, Europe, Suffering

  "Queen: both sides suffered in the war" by Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2004.

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• When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Mother, Love Is

  Thich Nhat Hanh, John Stanley, David Loy, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim (2013). “Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth”, p.46, The Golden Sufi Center

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• It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide.

  Kim Kardashian

  Genocide, Armenians, Armenian Genocide

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• America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

  Ralph Ellison

  Fate, America, Woven

  Invisible Man epilogue (1952)

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• The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognise your own worth.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Life Is, Surprise, Delightful

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• Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?.

  Abdul Kalam

  Media, Achievement, Stories

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  Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.

  Ann Landers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.

  Anish Kapoor

  Levels, Red, Grew Up

  Interview with John Tusa, anishkapoor.com. 2003.

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• Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.

  Bryan Cranston

  Perseverance, Art, Successful

  "Bryan Cranston: 'I had to take my character from Mr Chips to Scarface'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.

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• I like the way that different people recognise me for the roles I done

  Casper Van Dien

  People, Different, Roles

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• I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Village Idiots, States, Palestinian

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• It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.

  Garry Kasparov

  Long, World, Regimes

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• When Israel says that it will recognise Palestinian rights and will withdraw from the West Bank and East Jerusalem and grant the right of return, stop settlements and recognise the rights of the Palestinians to self-determination - only then will Hamas be ready to take a serious step.

  Khaled Mashal

  Determination, Rights, Israel

  Interview with Jeremy Bowen, news.bbc.co.uk. February 8, 2006.

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• For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.

  Avery Brundage

  Art, Games, Long

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• I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.

  Paul Dirac

  Equality, Two, Trying

  Paul Dirac's speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1933.

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• Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wisdom, Experience, Recognise You

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• Human beings cannot live without stories.

  Ann Douglas

  Earth Day, Stories, Storytelling

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• I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Children, Women

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• The wounded recognized the wounded.

  Nora Roberts

  Recognition, Similarity, Recognizing

  Nora Roberts (2006). “The Quinn Brothers: 2-in-1”, p.309, Penguin

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• We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Focus, Vision

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.186, Courier Corporation

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• Bill Maher is right to condemn religious practices that violate fundamental human rights. Religious communities must do more to counter extremist interpretations of their faith. But failing to recognize that religion is embedded in culture — and making a blanket judgment about the world’s second largest religion — is simply bigotry.

  Reza Aslan

  Religious, Failure, Rights

  "Bill Maher Isn’t the Only One Who Misunderstands Religion" by Reza Aslan, www.nytimes.com. October 8, 2014.

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• Whatever we refuse to recognize about ourselves has a way of rearing its head and making itself known when we least expect it.

  Debbie Ford

  Inspirational, Unmasking, Way

  Debbie Ford (2011). “Dark Side of the Light Chasers: Reclaiming your power, creativity, brilliance, and dreams”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone who is not in my image, who language, faith, ideal, are different from mine? If I cannot, then I have made God in my image instead of allowing him to remake me in his.

  Jonathan Sacks

  God, Faith, Religious

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• We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.

  John Denver

  Inspirational, Song, Writing

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