Notice And Acknowledgment Quotes & Sayings

The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace? — Arthur Henderson

Cooking gives you the opportunity to meet the things you eat. You can touch each carrot or olive and get to know its smell and texture.You can feel its weight and notice its color and form. If it is going to become part of you, it seems worthy, at least, of acknowledgment, respect, and thanks. It takes much time and care in order for things to grow, and many labors are needed to bring these ingredients to the kitchen. There is a lot to be grateful for that takes place between the wheat field and the dumpling. — Gary Thorp

Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending. — Barbara Holland

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle.

This was not a beauty that warmed one. It cut, like a weapon. There was no nuance of gentleness in her, no shading of care, but fair she was, as is the flight of an arrow before it kills. — Guy Gavriel Kay

you can't keep fucking someone over, and expect them to still be there for you. — Krystal Gonzalez

Republicans don't have to accept evolution, economics, climatology, or human sexuality, but I just watched a week of their national convention, and I need them to admit the historical existence of George W. Bush. If your party can run the nation for eight years and then have a national convention and not invite Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Karl Rove, or Tom DeLay, you're not a political movement, you're the witness protection program. — Bill Maher

What one wins in a finite game is a title. A title is the acknowledgment of others that one has been the winner of a particular game. Titles are public. They are for others to notice. I expect others to address me according to my titles, but I do not address myself with them-unless, of course, I address myself as an other. The effectiveness of a title depends on its visibility, its noticeability to others. — James P. Carse

You hold in your heart everything you need to know to write anything your story needs written. — Dan Alatorre

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable. — John D. MacDonald

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow. — Miguel De Cervantes

But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of a working week. — Nick Hornby

It's terrible to lie in chains,
To rot in dungeon deep,
But it's still worse, when you are free
To sleep, and sleep, and sleep. — Taras Shevchenko

It's more the way a tough guy who doesn't like cats might look at a kitten and notice for the first time that it can be kind of cute. Sort of a reluctant, private acknowledgment that maybe cats aren't all bad. — Susan Ee