Quotes About Rejection

You, my creator, abhor me; what hope can I gather from your fellow-creatures, who owe me nothing?

I expected this reception,' said the daemon. 'All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life?

Rejection is a part of any man's life. If you can't accept and move past rejection, or at least use it as writing material - you're not a real man. -Master Jiraiya

I don't care if he's your grand mother

I reject passive consumption. I reject the premise. I will have no passive consumers. Casanova will not stop and explain itself to you. It will not allow you to flip through it while you're dropping a deuce and waiting for Batman to show up.

Repeated rejection causes us to lower our sights; an unbroken string of successful seductions encourages us to aim a little higher. But it is worth it to get off the Red Queen's treadmill before you drop.

The fact is that you don't know strangers well enough to reject them. if you don't want to go on the lunch date, it probably has more to do with you-your schedule, your unwillingness to meet someone new, your mood.

Every time a trick hangs up on me, I gain a renewed faith in humanity—someone really cares!

Emily interrupted. Don, she said. would you mind going home? He pulled his soft hat violently down over his forehead. I suppose you think that I'm a cad. I just don't think about you. Good-by, Emily said, and closed the door firmly behind him.

Anything is better than doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

It's funny when you smile, she said. It's like a rainbow on a cloudy day. Don't ever say that to me again.

Can I tell you something you really don't want to hear? He's going to break up with you. - Stuart

Periodically someone would encourage her to walk through the woods or try out the mountain bike. Stevie viewed these offers with grave suspicion and declined.

Fine," he said. "Anything is better than doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

I threw it down the air shaft. There's a concrete floor below.

I had felt no hatred in all the years when they rejected me. If my work was new, I had to give them time to learn, if I took pride in being first to break a trail to a height of my own, I had no right to complain if others were slow to follow.

People turned to look at Howard Roark as he passed. Some remained staring after him with sudden resentment. They could give no reason for it: it was an instinct his presence awakened in most people.

She said 'no' to the words he spoke, and 'yes' to the voice that spoke them.

I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom." "You call that freedom?" "To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing." "What if you found something you wanted?" "I won't find it. I won't choose to see it. It would be part of that lovely world of yours. I'd have to share it with all the rest of you—and I wouldn

Frank was the fuel. He gave me, in the hours of my own days, the reality of that sense of life, which created The Fountainhead--and he helped me to maintain it over a long span of years when there was nothing around us but a gray desert of people and events that evoked nothing but contempt and revulsion. The essence of the bond between us is the fact that neither of us has ever wanted or been tempted to settle for anything less than the world presented in The Fountainhead. We never will.

Sacrifice' does not mean the rejection of the worthless, but of the precious. 'Sacrifice' does not mean the rejection of the evil for the sake of the good, but of the good for the sake of the evil. 'Sacrifice' is the surrender of that which you value in favor of that which you don't.

more contemptible than a criminal, is the employer who rejects men for being too good.

they seemed wounded by anything he said, it was not a matter of his words or actions, it was almost . . . almost as if they were wounded by the mere fact of his being.

I experienced failure and learned to buck up so I could rally those who'd put their trust in me. I suffered rejections and insults often enough to stop fearing them. In other words, I grew up—and got my sense of humor back.