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Quotes About Rejection

For men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
~ Thucydides
You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But it cannot survive the rejection of an immaterial soul.
~ Paul Bloom
The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
~ Benazir Bhutto
I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.
~ Billy Joel
He seemed wild and dangerous and carefree--well, he would, would'nt he? What were motorcycles and black leather pants if not the uniform of a wild, dangerous and carefree man?
~ Marian Keyes
These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.
~ Neil Sheehan
Men are perfectly willing to abandon a woman but they refuse to be abandoned by her.
~ Honore de Balzac
What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
~ John Mason Brown
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
~ T. S. Eliot
I'm not fit company for man or beast.
~ Billy Strayhorn
Men chase by night those they will not greet by day.
~ Camille Paglia
Every man who loses everlasting life rejects it himself. God denies it not to him-he will not come that he may have life.
~ Charles Spurgeon
If no meant no then every man would die a virgin.
~ Daniel Tosh
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
~ George D. Prentice
most of all, a majority of humans refuse to accept that the universe, the world, god(s), are utterly indifferent to our plight.
~ Teofilo F. Ruiz
Waiting was a tragicomedy. There was this whole absurdist, endless, excruciating quality to it. We distract ourselves in a million different ways to delude ourselves into thinking that we're not "waiting", because waiting is unendurable. Waiting has demands. It percolates with fear and potential rejection, and threatens you with despair... There's always a wisp of hope in the hopelessness...
~ Teresa Toten
I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.
~ Teri Garr
I soon learned that it is always easier for a bureaucrat to say no. They can't get in trouble saying no.
~ Terri Irwin
Woe unto them who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!… Therefore, as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
~ Terry James
But this isn't about sports competition. It's about the rejection of what God determines for a person at conception. Put another way, these are creatures saying to the Creator that their impossible and diabolical choices are valid and that God's sovereignty is not. Such a person implies that God made a mistake, that they are angry with Him for that mistake, and that they will
~ Terry James
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
~ Tertullian
Truth and the hatred of truth come into our world together. As soon as truth appears, it is regarded as an enemy.
~ Tertullian
In vain did Phœbe's alabaster brow show above the horizon reflected in the sombre mirror of the river; Zamore would not bay at the moon, although such prolonged ululation gives infinite delight to creatures of his species.
~ Theophile Gautier