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Quotes About Rejection

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~ Cavafy
So many people treat you like you're a kid that you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.
~ Gerard Way
The island children did not look at the Aldens. In fact, they looked the other way.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
~ Gertrude Stein
Let's begin all over again. Let's begin by affirming that poetry has died. And that I'm not a poet. And I'll never, ever be one. I'm not interested in poetry. I don't like life. I detest men. I hate children. I hate the sea.
~ Giannina Braschi
His voice went flat. "They criticized me," he said. "The criticized me for the way I went about things, my dreams." His voice became like still water, like a nest of sleeping snakes, and you could feel the mad wrath contained within that voice. "They always criticized me, even when I did big things. I'm doing a big thing now. They won't criticize me. If they do, I'll kill them. Ignorance. There's no room for it in my plans. No room.
~ Gil Brewer
Saying no, I thought, that has always been my forte, and no wonder, given that the stupidity of the world is rivalled only by its ugliness.
~ Gilbert Adair
A book gets rejected because it's not ready to be published.
~ Gina Nahai
What a charming little miss! The more I love her, the more she disdains me. - Bartolo
~ Gioachino Rossini
You could be born into love or rejection, into want or abundance,although life itself was certainly not to blame. The vital principle did its job when it united egg and sperm; it was people who created the conditions in which life followed its course. And human beings seemed marked by destiny to trample one another, to make life difficult for one another, to kill one another.
~ Gioconda Belli
O cumplit? oboseal? de om trândav, o lips? de poft? spiritual?, ca a unuia care a b?ut tot È™i a vomitat tot, o ur? fa?? de orice idee È™i fa?? de orice chip uman m? fac de dispreÈ›uit È™i de comp?timit în propriii mei ochi.
~ Giovanni Papini
Malpelo, un monellaccio che nessuno avrebbe voluto vedersi davanti, e che tutti schivavano come un can rognoso, e lo accarezzavano coi piedi, allorché se lo trovavano a tiro. Egli era davvero un brutto ceffo, torvo, ringhioso, e selvatico.
~ Giovanni Verga
It is a humiliating fact that at nineteen the keenest sorrows have a habit of yielding, with uncanny readiness, to the soothing effects of excitement and a change of scene. It is a sound instinct, after all, which takes the rejected lover to the wilds to shoot hippopotami and lions. Even the female of the species—not of hippopotami and lions—can obtain a considerable amount of balm from driving along the Great North Road at eighty miles an hour.
~ Gladys Mitchell
United States and abroad reject and condemn violent jihad. But it doesn't follow
~ Glenn Beck
From its inception, FISA has been the ultimate rubber stamp. In its first twenty-four years, from 1978 to 2002, the court rejected a total of zero government applications while approving many thousands. In the subsequent decade, through 2012, the court has rejected just eleven government applications.
~ Glenn Greenwald
I am the spirit of perpetual negation. (Mephistopheles)
~ Goethe
What if Captain Smythe did not reject his orders? What if Captain Smythe was not there at all? What if instead of soldiers they
~ Gordon Dahlquist
Let go of our so-often-denied fear of being found unlovable.
~ Gordon MacKenzie
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy — and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live — only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs — is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species bent on a quest for salvation, security, or sanity
~ Thomas Szasz
Those who reject biological evolution do so, usually, not out of reason, but out of unjustified vanity.
~ Isaac Asimov
If looks could kill I should have been a dead man that day.  Openly they spat at sight of me, and, everywhere arose snarls and cries.
~ Jack London
Söylemek istediÄŸim ÅŸey ÅŸu: Beni seviyorsan, beni reddedecek kadar az sevdiÄŸin güne göre, nas?l oluyor da ÅŸu anda beni daha çok seviyorsun?
~ Jack London
bringing offerings is futile; incense is an abomination to me'.
~ Jack Turner
With her husband dead and no other man willing to take her, Hoelun was now outside the family, and as such no one had any obligation to help her. The message that she was no longer a part of the band came to her, the way Mongols always symbolize relationships, through food.
~ Jack Weatherford