Quotes About Rejection

Vi amo, Rossella, perché ci somigliamo tanto; rinnegati, tutti e due, e profondamente egoisti. A nessuno di noi due importa che il mondo vada in rovina, purché noi ci salviamo.

Scarlett had thrown herself on the bed and was sobbing at the top of her voice, sobbing for her lost youth and the pleasures of youth that were denied her, sobbing with the indignation and despair of a child who once could get anything she wanted by sobbing and now knows that sobbing can no longer help her. She burrowed her head in the pillow and cried and kicked with her feet at the tufted counterpane.

She heard the soft muffled sound of his footsteps dying away down the long hall, and the complete enormity of her actions came over her. She had lost him forever. Now he would hate her and every time he looked at her he would remember how she threw herself at him when he had given her no encouragement at all.

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

I select my technology based on what I need and I also don't take up what I don't feel that I need.

Do many guys ask you out twice?""Only the ones with balls.

A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you are not like us."

If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I'd still say no.

I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.

I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with me.

If you don't like me, why do you waste your time making fun of me?

Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again; and then the phone rings and you hope it's them - it's the most twisted logic of all time.

It's not the advertising - it's the dog food. Every time anybody has a look at it or has a lick of it, they don't like it.

Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot.

The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.

This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.

You're too young. I've met Miss Dix. She wants women who are matronly and not pretty. You fail on both requirements.

There's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existance

I was infatuated once with a foolish, besotted affection, that clung to him in spite of his unworthiness, but it is fairly gone now--wholly crushed and withered away; and he has none but himself and his vices to thank for it.

Never! while heaven spares my reason,' replied I, snatching away the hand he had presumed to seize and press between his own.