Quotes About Rejection

Cats are snooty. When you come home, even after a long day at work, there's a good chance your cat will look up at you, then turn away like you're the help. And like you've arrived for work late.

I]n the face of every image we have to choose whether, or how, to make it participate in our knowledge and action. We can accept or reject this or that image; take it as a consoling object or as a worrying object; make it ask questions or use it as a ready-made response.

There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.

Ci ritrovammo tutti a bordo per un consiglio di guerra. La mia proposta di sopravvivere un altro paio di giorni nutrendoci di patelle fu immediatamente bocciata.

Punk' is nothing but death and crime...and the rage of a beast.

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.

We noticed a crasher at the bar - that shows what a real man he is - he's here to show he's not ticked for not being asked.

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, Why should I? He never reads any of mine.

Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.

Not many people ask me out.

Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.

A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.

Include me out.

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out.

Beware of allowing a tactless word, rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

When an idea is too weak to support a simple statement, it is a sign that it should be rejected.

When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country.

We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.

Tis enough - Who listens once will listen twice; Her heart be sure is not of ice, And one refusal no rebuff.

I have not loved the world, nor the world me; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee.

The waste basket is a writer's best friend.

The search for, and quite often assumed discovery of some paternal-like God or a testy senior after the fashion of Jehovah, frequently has its origins in an adolescent rejection of the father.