Rejects Quotes
674 Rejects quotes by 552 unique authors
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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re…
— Carl Sagan
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The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter…
— Christopher Paolini
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Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I run because long after my footprints fade away, maybe I will have inspired a few to reject the easy path, hit the trails, put…
— Dean Karnazes
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[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with…
— Paul Bowles
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We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is…
— Milan Kundera
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And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a white crow. Both…
— Jostein Gaarder
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Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt…
— Charles Frazier
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There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God’s sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience...
— John Owen
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To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I…
— William S. Burroughs
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To destroy is easier than to create, and that is why so many people are ready to demonstrate against what they reject. But what would…
— Ivan KlÃma
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A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant. If God is…
— Karen Armstrong
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The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the…
— Rob Bell
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Deeply buried in the mind, there lies a mechanism that accepts what the mind experiences as beautiful and pleasant and rejects those experiences that are…
— Henepola Gunaratana
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Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they admired…
— Anthony de Mello
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Love, no matter how you come at it, is a huge risk. It makes it easier for me to remember that God will never reject…
— Erwin McManus
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Yet I think the demon's target is not the possessed; it is us . . . the observers . . . every person in this…
— William Peter Blatty
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What do you think it is to be normal?' Why in the world would you want to be?' she says. I don't know. I guess…
— Patrick Jones
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Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
— Ayn Rand
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We choose--or choose not--to be alone when we decide whom we will accept as our fellows, and whom we will reject. Thus an eremite in…
— Gene Wolfe
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When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this…
— David Hume
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I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out…
— Kathleen Norris
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Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever…
— C.S. Lewis
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For the record? I have never been her baby. In fact, I reject the notion of coming out of her body. I prefer to believe…
— Jen Lancaster
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For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At twenty-four, it was…
— Diablo Cody
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