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Quotes About Rejection

rage. They got up, drove him out of town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they might hurl him off the cliff. (vv. 28–29) It
~ Walter Brueggemann
Lament is the loss of true kingship, whereas doxology is the faithful embrace of the true king and the rejection of all the phony ones.
~ Walter Brueggemann
"Tell them that I came, and no one answered,That I kept my word," he said.
~ Walter de La Mare
If anyone could look into my head See or feel the dread that has captured Me or see within this sad, unhappy brain They would only turn away Turn away.
~ Walter Dean Myers
During the day as serious opinions are being discussed, there is an opportunity to give the biblical view on issues of sin and righteousness or the purpose of life. But each time you speak, you have seen rejection of yourself with your views. Each testimony of truth makes you more unwelcome. Will you be bold for truth today?
~ Walter J. Chantry
He rejected traditional religious beliefs (Jewish, Christian, and Islamic) not on the basis of any reasoned argument, nor even with an expression of emotional antipathy, for he loved to use religious expressions and metaphors, but simply by saying that they are naive.
~ Walter J. Moore
I hate it!" he said. "I don't want to be human anymore." "Neither do I," she said. "It's not a good place to be.
~ Walter Jon Williams
Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.
~ Walter Kaufmann
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
~ Walter Lippmann
Why did Baudelaire — why does anyone — write poetry, in the teeth of all the evidence that one wants you to do so? No one wants you to write it and having written it in spite of them, no one wants to read it. Above all, no one wants to pay for it. For better or worse, a poem has a hard time turning into a commodity.
~ Walter Martin
al estar excesivamente atentos a los rechazos descubren "más rechazos" de lo normal:67 "el que busca, encuentra".
~ Walter Riso
The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead
~ Warren Adler
A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
~ Warren Farrell
Peter's dad, Joe, had prepared his son to know that a certain amount of hazing is the price of admission for acceptance, not rejection. The trading of wit-covered put-downs is boys and men training each other to handle criticism, unconsciously knowing that the ability to handle criticism is a prerequisite for success.
~ Warren Farrell PhD
The world was doing its best to ignore the fact that I was a writer.
~ Wayne Koestenbaum
Stacy Happy anniversary, Wayne. Wayne Stacy, we broke up two months ago. Stacy Well, that doesn't mean we can't still go out, does it Wayne Well, it does actually, that's what breaking up is.
~ Wayne's World
If tolerance poses as a middle road between rejection on the one side and assimilation on the other, this road, as already suggested, is paved by necessity rather than virtue; tolerance, as Nietzsche would say, becomes a virtue only retroactively and retrospectively.
~ Wendy Brown
Jainas have always taken vegetarianism to the greatest extremes, taking pains to avoid injuring even tiny insects, and this too heavily influenced Hindus. The breakaway groups not only abhorred sacrifice but also rejected the Veda as revelation and disregarded Brahminical teachings and Brahminical claims to divine authority,32 three more crucial points that distinguished them from Hindus, even from those Hindus who were beginning to take up some of the new doctrines and practices.
~ Wendy Doniger
If you are not sensitive to rejection, doesn't that also mean you're indifferent to love?
~ Wendy Shalit
I don't expect to meet the man of my dream today, but if I do, then I guess if he's really the man of my dreams he won't reject me when he sees the pudge around my knees.
~ Wendy Shanker
Sitting on my bed with all these things I used to love but not loving them anymore, I just wanted to set them on fire. That's when I knew I was never going to be all right again.
~ Wendy Walker
The rest of their authors were thrown out there, much like shit flung at a wall, while the publisher waited to see who "stuck," or so it seemed to Kendall.
~ Wendy Wax
Life will not approve of my escape.
~ Wesley D'Amico
my century..is unique in the history of men for two reasons. It is the first century since life began when a decisive part of the most articulate section of mankind has not merely ceased to believe in God, but has deliberately rejected God. And it is the century in which this religious rejection has taken a specifically political form….
~ Whittaker Chambers