Rejected Quotes · Page 4

“Being rejected in life is a blessing in disguise.”

— Germany Kent

Every time I put myself out there, I get rejected.

— Colton Underwood

I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels.

— Nicholas Sparks

Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.

— John Scalzi

There is nothing more painful than being rejected simply for being who you are.

— Amy Dickinson

I'm rejected it might leave my back broken. Now tell me if you can jerk in slow motion

— Audio Push

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

— Robert Hughes

I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

— Salman Rushdie

The very truths that gave birth to the Pentecostal movement are today generally rejected as too strong.

— Frank Bartleman

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.

— Stan Kelly-Bootle

I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis.

— Rene Descartes

I have a noble history of being rejected by a lot of places, only to discover that the one that finally lets…

— Renee Fleming

A boy got rejected & girl got selected in an interview 4 same reason. Think? They both had the first two buttons…

— AB

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like…

— Avril Lavigne

“[Being rejected] hurt, 'cause what turned me on in sex was believing that they knew me, that I'd found somebody to understand.”

— Chris Kraus

Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He…

— Anne Graham Lotz

One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected…

— Lester Thurow

I do not doubt but the majest and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world; I do…

— Walt Whitman

Maintenance is what you have to do just so you can walk out the door knowing that if you go to the…

— Nora Ephron

When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“We do not experience things as they really are! We experience things only through a filter and that filter determines what information…

— David Wolfe

I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this,…

— Princess Diana

A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and…

— Mark Cuban

Whenever I'm faced with a difficult decision, I ask myself, 'What would I do if I weren't afraid of making a mistake?…

— Oprah Winfrey

Protestantism as such is a better defender of the interests of Germanism, in so far as this is grounded in its genesis…

— Adolf Hitler

Christianity without the cross is nothing. The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn and defeat. But in…

— Lord Kelvin

Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an…

— Chester Middlebrook Pierce

By Cunning & Craft is a masterpiece of writing about writing. If, like Scheherazade, you had to spin out a story under…

— Nora Gallagher

Imaginary testing is unreliable, and in many cases, it's a huge waste of time and energy. In truth you just don't know…

— Steve Pavlina

United Features had given me a development contract, which meant I was to work exclusively with them and rather than completing everything…

— Bill Watterson

I guess I'm what you call a slush-piler. I just sent my manuscripts to the slush pile of publishers and hoped for…

— Markus Zusak

The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.

— Francois Fenelon

When you're fired, you're rejected. It's as simple as that.

— Harvey Mackay

Cameraphones will be rejected by corporate users.

— Mike Lazaridis

“rejected from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania,”

— Jason Fagone

“The novel was rejected by thirty publishers”

— Alan Griffin

She puts on her makeup and curls her hair all for that boy who would never care.

— Ester Escalante

I think when the world makes you feel rejected, you bite back.

— Tom Hiddleston

“But did he know that I'd already forgiven him for having rejected me?”

— Maryam Schonbeck