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Quotes About Rejection

But in spite of her efforts to stop the words she can feel some of the need getting through: he doesn't need me that much, he couldn't—
~ Ken Kesey
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
~ Friedrich Schiller
One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.
~ Larry Wall
The only power an actor has is the ability to say "no."
~ Lou Diamond Phillips
When you deny something your power is much more conspicuous than when you approve it.
~ Vladimir Voinovich
In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'
~ Viggo Mortensen
An actor has power, and their power is very simple: it's the power to say no.
~ Ken Stott
Saying "no" has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined.
~ Kevin Ashton
It's not a matter of rejection (of Israel's existence). Israel is here, present by power.
~ Mahmoud al-Zahar
If people are saying that somehow their connection is going to be detrimental to their health, of course they are going to reject that idea, because that's the power of falling like that.
~ Paul Dalio
If you're going to offer a position of great power and importance to somebody, you're not gonna do that publicly unless you know they're gonna accept it, because to refuse it is a rebuke.
~ Rush Limbaugh
You're not worth the salt in my tears or the brain power it would take me to even conjure your face. (Aiden)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States. I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use it.
~ Alberto Fujimori
People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers.
~ Rick Warren
Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.
~ J. Sidlow Baxter
We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayer.
~ Peter Forsyth
The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.
~ John Calvin
The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
~ Ovid
Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.
~ Charles M. Schulz
No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.
~ Rick Riordan
And I think—I think the point is to make us despair; to reject our own humanity, Damien: to see ourselves as ultimately bestial, vile and putrescent; without dignity; ugly; unworthy. And there lies the heart of it, perhaps: in unworthiness. For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love: of accepting the possibility that God could ever love us.
~ William Peter Blatty
Out, Himmler! Out of my sight! Go and visit your club-footed daughter! Bring her sauerkraut! Sauerkraut and heroin, Thorndike! She will love it! She will—!
~ William Peter Blatty
and three suicides, though one minister had tried to protest that decision that they be buried in what was now consecrated ground. That protest was greeted with icy rejection from Charlie, who was now a former member of that congregation.
~ William R. Forstchen