Wanting To Be Recognized Quotes & Sayings

I'd much rather pretend I'm somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens. — Jodi Picoult

We should know that Allah has created us to live an eternal life with no death, a life of pride and ease with no humiliation, a life of security with no fear, a life of richness with no poverty, a life of joy with no pain, a life of perfection with no flaws. Allah is testing us in this world with a life that will end in death, a life of pride that is accompanied by humiliation and degradation, a life that is tainted by fear, where joy and ease are mixed with sorrow and pain. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

After getting recognized in public from my picture on our pretzel bag, I can understand not wanting to be in the public eye. It has given me a public persona I had always avoided as a child. I do it because it's for a good cause. — Nell Newman

God, however, is first glimpsed within nature's still greater powerlessness - its transitoriness and contingency and explanatory poverty. — David Bentley Hart

It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand
having many loves, and delighting in danger and war. — M.M. Kaye

Akhmed's eight-day-old eyes had held the reflection of ten thousand possible lives. Khassan wasn't an emotive or superstitious man, and nothing like it had ever happened again, but he had found, layered in the infant's half-lidded eyes, innumerable, wanting faces, none of which he had recognized. — Anthony Marra

Everything to me is about team football, and if we keep winning Super Bowl trophies, I'll be fine. — Justin Tuck

As a parent, you may sometimes react in frustration, wanting to break his will or mete out some severe punishment in order to bring him down a notch and make him more docile. But even Father Hock back in the early 1930s recognized that much care must be taken not to cause the choleric to become hardened and embittered by harsh and punitive discipline: [B]y hard, proud treatment the choleric is not improved, but embittered and hardened; whereas even a very proud choleric can easily be influenced by reasonable suggestions and supernatural motives . . . it is absolutely necessary to remain calm and to allow the choleric to "cool off" and then to persuade him to accept guidance in order to correct his faults. . . .11 — Art Bennett

If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized. — Romeo LeBlanc

The people of Zimbabwe have a responsibility to ensure that the government that they elected behaves properly. — Thabo Mbeki

He gave me the key, which I later discovered would open practically every door in the hotel. I thanked him, and I made a small mistake we irony collectors often make: I tried to share an irony with a stranger. It can't be done. I told him I had been in the Arapahoe before - in Nineteen-hundred and Thirty-one. He was not interested. — Kurt Vonnegut

See? Reading you all night has strengthened me. That's what God's love does. If you're beginning to feel uncomfortable now, it's because the changes in you are already beginning to happen and one day you'll be glad to say, Deliver me from meaninglessness. — Ian McEwan

Comforting to know that we're the species that feels the most pain. — Craig Johnson

To the thing that hurts you most. To the paranormal and to never being normal. — Karina Halle

The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control. — Terence McKenna

We all go through stages. Concern about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and notices, and trying to establish yourself - all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.
Life's tests refine you — Sandra Merrill Covey

I'm the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit. — Aisha Tyler

We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow. — Stephen Covey

As we use media, they shape intellectual and social ecosystems that in turn shape the way we see the world. — Kyle Tennant