Rejected Quotes

486 Rejected quotes by 422 unique authors

Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way,… — John Green
The act of leaning in to kiss someone, or asking them, is fraught with the possibility of rejection, so the person least likely to get… — John Green
Maintenance is what you have to do just so you can walk out the door knowing that if you go to the market and bump… — Nora Ephron
Be grateful to everyone" is about making peace with the aspects of ourselves that we have rejected... If we were to make a list of… — Pema Chodron
Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult,… — Eckhart Tolle
there are only so many ways to get rejected or ignored. It doesn't hurt at all anymore because why should someone who's a complete stranger… — Neil Strauss
The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history… — Muhammad Iqbal
Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius. — Robert Hughes
Why do eight out of ten new consumer products fail? Sometimes because they are too new. The first cold cereals were rejected by consumers. More… — David Ogilvy
Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected. — Mahatma Gandhi
A new generation of Christians is being called to help build a world in which God's gift of life is welcomed, respected and cherished-not rejected,… — Pope Benedict XVI
If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if she rejected the… — Tony Benn
Historians of a generation ago were often shocked by the violence with which scientists rejected the history of their own subject as irrelevant; they could… — I. Bernard Cohen
Anything that is secret and mysterious in this system of Yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is strength. In spirituality,… — Swami Vivekananda
Our greatest fear is that we will lose the love in our life... that we will be abandoned, left alone, bereaved, misunderstood, deprived, hated and… — Susan Mitchell
... you are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily! — Francis Schaeffer
To me, the success of the cyberactivists in Tunisia is actually very interesting, because many of them explicitly rejected any support from Washington. — Evgeny Morozov
The role of the architect as artist is an ancient one, but it was de-emphasized with the rise of modernism, which rejected the drawing-based Beaux-Arts… — Martin Filler
Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career. — Rupert Penry-Jones
Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in… — Anne Graham Lotz
Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected. — Charles Krauthammer
My cards and flowers always got rejected on Valentines Day. — Anurag Kashyap
I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being… — Ashwin Sanghi
Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is… — John Naisbitt
My record was so bad that I was first rejected by the Peace Corps as a poor risk and possible troublemaker and was accepted as… — Paul Theroux

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