Quotes About Rejection

Eleven : *walks up to mike* Mike : 0-0 Eleven : I DUMP YOUR ASS. Mike : *surprised, sad, taken aback, broken-hearted, and a bunch of other negative feelings*

even there, where the rejection of the system is taken for granted and for that reason a lax and cunning conformism of its own has developed.

Bir cümle bir öncekini, hakiki olmad???n? öne sürerek geçersiz k?larken, kendi de bir sonraki cümle taraf?ndan yalanlanmak üzeredir.

To base one's rejection of what exists--and hence one's prescription for a better world--upon the petty frustrations of one's youth, as surely many middle-class radicals have done, is profoundly egotistical. Unless consciously rejected, this impulse leads to a tendency throughout life to judge the rightness or wrongness of policies by one's personal emotional response to them, as if emotion were an infallible guide.

The only thing worse than having a family, I discovered, is not having a family. My rejection of bourgeois virtues as mean-spirited and antithetical to real human development could not long survive contact with situations in which those virtues were entirely absent; and a rejection of everything associated with one's childhood is not so much an escape from that childhood as an imprisonment by it.

As for snobbery, the intellectual raises himself above ordinary folk -- who still cling quixotically to standards, prejudices, and taboos -- by his thorough rejection of them. Unlike others, he is not a prisoner of his upbringing and cultural inheritance; and thus he proves the freedom of his spirit by the amorality of his conceptions.

But even though I like having sex with you, I think you're kind of a huge asshole, and I don't want to have to talk to you again.

Next time a rattlesnake bites you, or you crack a rib, or find some whore with a sliced-up arm, don't call me. Call somebody who doesn't care." ~0~

The many ways we have felt angry or cheated, rejected or misunderstood, isolated or forgotten, used or abused, only drive us deeper into victimhood, self-pity, and sadness. Our ego is expensive to keep fed, and makes extraordinary demands without ever being satisfied. When the ego becomes more and more inflated, the self is always imploding.

But when the face of Sextus Was seen among the foes, A yell that rent the firmament From all the town arose. On the house-tops was no woman But spat towards him and hissed, No child but screamed out curses, And shook its little fist.

Whenever a new scholar came to out school, I used to confront him at recess with the following words: 'My name's Tom Bailey: what's your name?' If the name struck me favorably, I shook hands with the new pupil cordially; but if it didn't I would turn on my heel, for I was particular in this point. Such names as Higgins, Wiggins, and Spriggins were deadly afronts to my ear; while Lapgdon, Wallace, Blake, and the like, were passing words to my confidence and esteem.

The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents.

The Everlasting No.

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

People would get up and leave so they would not have to sit anywhere near me.

I'm not a negative person, but every role I go for I don't think I'll get.

Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.

It's the nature of a human that when you get neglected somewhere, you want to go back and prove a point.

Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors.

'Cuckoo's Nest' was my first film, and I had wanted to do film for some time, but somehow I had not clicked. I would go in for interviews or readings, and I never had the sense that I was anywhere near what they were looking for.

I couldn't even get an audition for network TV at home in Ireland.

I'll never forget how frustrated I felt when I didn't make the team for Barcelona in 1992.

Sometimes you read five, six, seven times for a role, and you meet new people every time, and you just keep climbing that ladder, and then it never goes anywhere. And then sometimes you just read once, and then you get it!

New Yorkers never really liked Too $hort.