Rejected Quotes

486 quotes by 422 authors

We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we should contract guilt and pollution,… — Athenagoras of Athens
Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of… — Alasdair MacIntyre
Faith is rest, not toil. It is the giving up all the former weary efforts to do or feel something good, in order to induce… — Horatius Bonar
The Sicilian Defence was our attempt at quickly fulfilling our contractual obligation after I Robot, Pyramid and Eve had been delivered. The album was rejected… — Alan Parsons
At school any spontaneous act was likely to get me into trouble. I learned never to act on impulse, and that whatever came into my… — Keith Johnstone
It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say… — Carlisle Floyd
Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices… — Karl Hess
When we end up in a situation where we have been rejected, there is an acceptance in Christ of a new place He is going… — Beth Moore
I always get so overwhelmed trying to do everything perfectly. I can't do a job and not put everything I have into it. I need… — Nic Sheff
Innovative ideas are rarely rejected on their merits; theyâ€™re rejected because of how they make people feel. If you forget peopleâ€™s concerns and feelings when… — Scott Berkun
All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no. — Barbara Corcoran
Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are in your own homes and in your own… — Mother Teresa
It was the Lord who put into my mind that fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies. All who… — Christopher Columbus
Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and… — Barry S. Strauss
If aspects of the person remain undigested-cut off, denied, projected, rejected, indulged, or otherwise unassimilated-they become the points around which the core forces of greed,… — Mark Epstein
I don't believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite, their collective opinions,… — Janna Levin
Every time you get rejected, say: 'Next!' — Mark Victor Hansen
You can't find intimacy-you can't find home-when you're always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of… — Junot Diaz
Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either. — Timothy Keller
The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that they had been… — Nicole Krauss

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