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Quotes About Rejection

Uh... is dat een bonte havik?' vroeg Will... 'Nee, dat is geen bonte havik,' zei Halt nors, zonder zelfs even de moeite te nemen te kijken waar Will naar wees. 'En als het er toch een is kan hij de pot op.
~ John Flanagan
Why not?" Then she thought further. "I wonder what Halt will say when we put it to him." Alyss shrugged. "Well, it's such a logical idea, he can hardly say no, can he?" "No!" said Halt. "No, no, no—and, just in case you missed it the first time, no.
~ John Flanagan
YOU WILL NOT. IT'S OUT OF THE QUESTION
~ John Flanagan
Orman nodded wearily 'As I said, when a person is unpopular, it's so easy to think badly of him
~ John Flanagan
We hebben notie genomen van uw bezwaren tegen onze expeditie,' zei Evanlyn koeltjes. 'Ja, maar we hebben er lekker niet naar geluisterd!' voegde Alyss eraan toe.
~ John Flanagan
I'm not afraid of the opinions of others - but of being needed and coming up short ...
~ John Geddes
I once tried to approach Akiro Kurosawa, but he never answered.
~ John Gielgud
I even went to the source of all wisdom, I went and knelt at the great Queen of Drag's feet and asked her how to find love. She backhanded me in between verses of Whitney Houston and told me if she knew, why in fuck would she be here ?
~ John Goode
Because she is afraid of not being supported, she unknowingly pushes away the support she needs.
~ John Gray
Love brings up our unresolved feelings . One day we are feeling loved , and the next day we are suddenly afraid to trust love . The painful memories of being rejected begin to surface when we are faced with trusting and accepting our partner's love .
~ John Gray
When I read and watch Donald Trump shrug off or Twitter away that global warming is a hoax, his brushoffs don't have the fire and passion of other things he off-handedly rejects. It's a good sign recognizable to anyone loving Geminis in his or her life.
~ John Hogue
I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.' What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.' Employers sense in me a denial of their values.' He rolled over onto his back. 'They fear me. I suspect that they can see that I am forced to function in a century I loathe. This was true even when I worked for the New Orleans Public Library.
~ John Kennedy Toole
The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that blindness, that whatsoever pleases not the princes and the multitude, the same is rejected as doctrine newly forged, and is condemned for heresy.
~ John Knox
In his experience with women, it was difficult to recover once things began to go wrong--once they had unreasonably decided that you were a person with whom they were not under any circumstances ever going to have sex.
~ John Lanchester
He told me that, in fact, he had always imagined me as a producer-director, beholden to nobody and immune to the constant rejection that all actors must endure. If you must go into the theater, he advised, be the person in charge and acquire the skills to do it right.
~ John Lithgow
My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you ' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'
~ John Mayer
You can fail to tell the truth. But the truth cannot be a failure even if it's ignored or rejected. The report told the truth.
~ John McCain
Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.
~ John McEnroe
They'd listen silenty, with grave faces: but once they'd turn to each other they'd smile cruelly. He couldn't have it both ways. He'd put himself outside and outside they'd make him stay. Neither brutality nor complaining could force a way in.
~ John McGahern
I wanted to know how it was going to turn out, like flipping ahead in a book. I didn't even know what kind of story it was, or what kind of role I was supposed to be playing. Which of us was taking it more seriously? Didn't that have to be me, because I was younger, and also because I was the girl? One the other hand, I thought that there was a way in which I was lighter than he was - that there was a serious heaviness about him that was foreign to me, and that I rejected.
~ Elif Batuman
I don't give a sharp-cheddar cheese wedge what your mother says!
~ Elizabeth Atkinson
I don't want what you want," I said. "And I'm not going to help you. I don't even want to argue with you, because while I know that human beings are capable of assimilating, adopting, internalizing, integrating, and identifying with new sets of ideas—because we have, multiple times in the history of the species—I've discovered that I don't actually care what you think, because you are an awful person and you want awful things.
~ Elizabeth Bear
As you wish, my lady. Keep your crown, and your cruelty. Love me not. I will go.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Maybe rebellion had gotten its teeth into her soul.
~ Elizabeth Bear