Rejected Quotes

486 Rejected quotes by 422 unique authors

The extremist, isolationist policies of Jean-Marie Le Pen have been rejected and crushed — Romano Prodi
The G-8 has clearly rejected the failed U.S. policy of voluntary programs to address global warming. — David Hawkins
When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you… — Walter Darby Bannard
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought… — Gerald R. Ford
They have rejected that power and sought to convince women of the exact opposite, that they are powerless. — Frederick Lenz
Here lay Cain's fatal mistake: "He was rejected, not because he was a sinner, but because, being a sinner, he had dared to approach a… — Charles Henry Mackintosh
There is nothing more painful than being rejected simply for being who you are. — Amy Dickinson
Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it. — Carl Jung
Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former -… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Could I have made mistakes? One does not build cities if one is guided by doubt. But can one govern in absolute certainty? I know… — Andrew Ryan
Whenever I'm faced with a difficult decision, I ask myself, 'What would I do if I weren't afraid of making a mistake? Feeling rejected? looking… — Oprah Winfrey
Believe things will work out. How was I ever to know that the girl who broke my heart in university would lead to my soulmate?… — Steve Jobs
The nature of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not correspond to the… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Fashion is the great governor of this world; it presides, not only in matters of dress and amusement, but in law, physic, politics, religion, and… — Henry Fielding
I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions… — Nicolaus Copernicus
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation… — Benjamin Disraeli
I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the… — Lyndon B. Johnson
I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design. — Mikhail Kalashnikov
Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the… — Alex Kapranos
I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me. — Avril Lavigne
There's something about compassion that causes society to say, 'We're going to take this person seriously.' Take Mother Teresa. She was confrontational on abortion, but… — Max Lucado
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. — W. Somerset Maugham
Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people. At the same… — Evo Morales
For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an… — Liam Neeson
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask. — Robert Motherwell

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