Quotes About Rejection

Don't be thick, all right? I'm not just talking about one time. Look, I ask Monica out, she says no. I say okay … your shit's not so hot anyway.

I suffered rejections and insults often enough to stop fearing them. In other words, I grew up—and got my sense of humor back.

They were actors in a rigged game, I decided, and I wanted no part of it.

You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.

Our culture's official rejection of the Crone figure was related to rejection of women, particularly elder women. The gray-haired high priestesses, once respected tribal matriarchs of pre-Christian Europe, were transformed by the newly dominant patriarchy into minions of the devil. Through the Middle Ages, this trend gathered momentum, finally developing a frenzy that legally murdered millions of elder women from the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries.

Until the Crone figure was suppressed, patriarchal religions could not achieve full control of men's minds. Such religions tended not only to ascetic rejection of the physical experiences of life, but also to fearful rejection of the Divine Old Woman, and by extension of old women generally.

This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it 'to the editor who can appreciate my work' and it has simply come back stamped 'Not at this address'. Just keep looking for the right address.

I put my face to the window so nobody would see, if I tore up. Was this me now, for life? Taking up space where people wished I wasn't? Once on a time I was something, and then I turned, like sour milk. The dead junkie's kid. A rotten little piece of American pie that everybody wishes could just be, you know. Removed.

After a while Estevan said, "What I really hate is not belonging in any place. To be unwanted everywhere.

You get used to it, not in the good way, to the extent of the entire world oftentimes feeling like a place where you weren't invited. If you've been here, you know. If not, must be nice.

The elder daughter looks up, her pale eyes steady. "But we are here, Papa." "Yes, you are." "Why don't you want us?" "Oh, God, I do." He kneels down and takes them both in his arms and pulls them against his chest. He understands for the first time in his life that love weighs nothing. Oh God, his girls are as light as birds.

Refusing to look at the evidence, this is also popular.

Well, that's how thick I am, I never knew how to want what everyone wants. I only thought to look for a home, some place to be taken in. Handing over a crumpled heart, seeing it dropped in the wastepaper basket every time. Here, though. Americans sent love letters in return.

My grandmother had no use for anything in the line of boys or men. Any of them that stands up to make his water, was how she put it. Bad news for me.

I needed no snake to tell me I didn't belong in that family or house, or life. I was the tree of knowledge.

I thought and thought. "I would like to hear a story about a little girl who doesn't get invited to a meanie boy's birthday. And so she sneaks to his house. And she lets a wild pony out of the barn. And then it stomples the boy into a flattie pancake. And all the children

In a world of scarcity, opportunities don't present themselves in bunches, and the decisions people face are between approach and avoidance, acceptance or rejection.

adding options can be detrimental to our well-being. Because we don't put rejected options out of our minds

Ä°nsanlar? iki kategoriye ay?r?n. Yeterince iyi olanlar ve olmayanlar. Yeterince iyi olanlar? ÅŸapkan?n içine koyun. Yeterince iyi olmayanlar ise reddedilmiÅŸ olsun.

On the other hand, the more we think about opportunity costs, the less satisfaction we'll derive from whatever we choose. So we should make an effort to limit how much we think about the attractive features of options we reject.

He rejected me! I am so hurt and mad. Can I destroy him?

The day I start hanging out with that bunch of half-starved mix-n-match sluts will be the day I crawl up my own ass and die!

Caught up in the all-encompassing idea of their country's "manifest destiny," they convinced themselves that American influence abroad could only be positive and that anyone who rejected it must be bad.

he boldly rejected the Bolshevik Lenin's proposal for complete land nationalization as well as a Russian Menshevik call for land municipalization.