#recognition

Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other. ↗

— Joshua L. Liebman

#how #know #long #other #recognition

We cannot forget that our flag received its first foreign salute from a Dutch officer, nor that the Province of Friesland gave to our independence its first formal recognition. ↗

— Seth Low

#dutch #first #flag #foreign #forget

Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#ally #argue #become #cannot #even

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#art #enjoyment #experience #imposing #our

There was something in her eyes that made me trust her. Maybe it was because they held the same cynicism, the same world-weariness I saw in my own every morning when I looked at myself in the mirror. ↗

— Melika Dannese Lux

#kindred-spirits #olga-belododia #partners #realization #recognition

Humans do not simply, innocently, and honestly disagree with each other about the good, the just, the right, the principles and applications of moral distinction and valuation, for they are already caught, like it or not, in a complex dynamic of each other’s desires, recognition, power, and comparisons which not only relativizes moral distinctions and valuations, but makes them a constant and dangerous source of discord. ↗

— Gregory B. Sadler

#desire #disagreements #moral-theory #morality #philosophy

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. ↗

— Clara Barton

#diminishing #evil #happiness #human #human suffering

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#affairs #because #disappointment #divorced #end

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#ever #fans #get #i #out

It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#always #appreciate #because #been #came