Quotes About Rejection

It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with you. They don't want to have their ideas upset. It rouses some vague uneasiness in them, I think, and they resent it. So they reject it and refuse to think about it.

We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.

Here is how the harmful becomes profitable: That which yesterday was reviled today ends up in Urban Outfitters. The critic Rebecca Solnit has summarized it this way: 'Eat your heart out on a plastic tray,' say the Sex Pistols. Now, we know where to buy the tray and what the heart tastes like.

Many men feel hurt and rejected by the central focus that a child gains in his wife's life. Men who feel displaced, hurt, rejected, or devalued by the arrival of a child are more likely to retreat from doing housework or parenting. Their "laziness" is a protest for feeling displaced and unimportant.

were nothing but junk; nobody would want them.

That was the last time she was allowed back at the Bennigan's. From then on, she started drinking at the T.G.I. Friday's.

As decisively as Lincoln left the rural life, he left the Baptist church as well. In New Salem he became widely known as an infidel. He rejected eternal damnation, innate sin, the divinity of Jesus, and the infallibility of the Bible.

He tells me to go away, but I don't think love is anything like water. It doesn't slip off that easily.

Jane kneels and kisses her soiled son. David does not look at her. It is as though, however, he is dreaming of looking at her.

De manera que Cervantes quería ir a Colombia. No lo logró: en el reverso de su propio memorial, el Consejo de Indias escribió las nueve palabras crueles que constituyeron su única respuesta: " Busque por acá en que se le haga merced

A girl he'd really liked had told him thanks, nut no thanks. She told him he was okay to bed, but not to wed.

Everyone is so excited. We're just dying, Becky! And it's all because of you," Lettie gushed. "If Eric wasn't your cousin, none of this would have happened." She gave me a big smile. "I'm so glad I'm your friend!" You won't be glad for long , I thought. Wait until Saturday night comes and there's no Eric. The girls in cabin eight would probably make me sleep outside with the squirrels. And I would deserve it.

I knew that the deepest of tragedies was simple: to love, and not to be loved in return.

Mehr als einmal hatte Frederik ihr vorgeworfen, sie knüpfe Liebe an die Bedingung reibungslosen Funktionierens. Wenn sich ein Mensch nicht in ihrem Sinne verhalte, sortiere sie ihn aus wie ein defektes Gerät. Durch diese unausgesprochene Drohung bringe sie andere dazu, ihrem Willen zu folgen, denn niemand wolle verstoßen werden, nur weil er die Küche nicht aufgeräumt oder einem Grundstücksverkauf nicht zugestimmt habe.

And as Prince Ramil has insulted you by choosing another wife than the one you proposed for him, you'll want to cast him out too," she suggested slyly. "Oh, undoubtedly," murmed Ramil. "Do cast me out.

Single or lesbian motherhood] can be seen as [one] of the most violent forms taken by the rejection of the symbolic ... as well as one of the most fervent divinizations of maternal power - all of which cannot help but trouble an entire moral and legal order without, however, proposing an alternative to it

What happened?' 'He humiliated me.' 'Oh, my Lord, Belle. He didn't...' 'No. But I wish I had. Then he'd have to marry me, and I-' 'Belle, you don't know what you're saying.' 'I know exactly what I'm saying! Why is it that no one can credit me with the ability to know my own mind?

He didn't want to talk about it, he didn't want listen to explanations.

No," she continued in a louder voice, "means no.

So she settled for crossing her arms and skewering him with a glare. To no effect whatsoever. He just stared down at her and said, "No." Hyacinth opened her mouth one last time, then gave up, sighed, and said, "Well, I suppose if I could walk

they wouldn't understand. Not the Bridgertons, who only knew that family was good and kind and true. They didn't know anything about cruel words and shattered dreams. They didn't know the impossible feeling of rejection.

There is nothing like the indignity of not fitting into a roller coaster.

The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

Some people in my family achieved a lot, some people inherited a lot. But I turned my back on the whole thing.