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Quotes About Rejecting

I knew that our community needed a very clear voice. and I think we deserved representation that rejected lobbyist funds and put our voters and our community first.
~ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
NEGATION Hi! The creator too is blind, Struggling toward his harmonious whole, Rejecting intermediate parts, Horrors and falsities and wrongs; Incapable master of all force, Too vague idealist, overwhelmed By an afflatus that persists. For this, then, we endure brief lives, The evanescent symmetries From that meticulous potter's thumb.
~ Wallace Stevens
In the first two decades of this century, people and their political leaders, prodded by the quisling scientists, acted as though they could enjoy the benefits of modern science while rejecting any scientific findings that they found inconvenient to their ideology or their pocketbook.
~ James Lawrence Powell
The American renaissance begins with the unified revolutionary act of turning off and smashing the television, rejecting Hollywood on all fronts and refusing to intellectually ingest the toxic force feed of the establishment minority's matrix narrative.
~ James Scott
To a philosopher like Nietzsche, the Jew is culpable not for rejecting Christianity but for inventing it.
~ Howard Jacobson
President Obama and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi represent what mainstream America is rejecting about Washington, D.C. And that is this out of touch with the people.
~ Sharron Angle
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.
~ Camille Paglia
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
~ Christopher Lasch
Atheist's denial of God's existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist's claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God's existence.
~ Paul Copan
It is indeed one of th e grave errors of religious anti-secularism that it does not see that secularism is made up of verites chretiennes devenues folies, of Christian truths that "went mad," and that in simply rejecting secularism , it in fact rejects with it certain fundamentally Christian aspirations and hopes.
~ Alexander Schmemann
We all know there are problems with Obamacare, and Washington's implementation of it has been abysmal. But rejecting Medicaid won't fix any of those things.
~ Jay Nixon
The hopeful self serves as a lifesaving antidote to the bitter and envious wounded self, which often becomes committed to destroying the rejecting aspects of the parents or other adults in positions of authority.
~ David P. Celani
I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them down. I strongly feel that the next role I do, I should not be wearing spandex.
~ Marina Sirtis
I am not renouncing my blackness and going on about my day. I am rejecting the legitimacy of the entire racial construct in which blackness functions as one orienting pole.
~ Thomas Chatterton Williams
Rejecting predatory capitalism in America is a way to respect and honor America.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
The first step toward enhancing performance in an organization is realizing that improvement is possible only if participants abandon business-as-usual practices. Doing so requires recognizing and rejecting three prevailing myths.
~ Anders Ericsson
To reject Christ because the church has sin of this sort in it is like rejecting hospitals because they are full of sick people.
~ Douglas Wilson
it should now be generally agreed that any concept of hilasterion in the sense of placating, appeasing, deflecting the anger of, or satisfying the wrath of, is inadmissible. The more important, and truly radical, reason for firmly rejecting this understanding of propitiation is that it envisions God as the object, whereas in the Scriptures, God is the acting subject.99 This is especially noticeable in Romans 3
~ Fleming Rutledge
Not Yankees, not Marxists, but Peronists," as their simple but vehement way of rejecting Marxist state capitalism of the sort then incarnated in the Soviet Union, as well as the extreme capitalism associated with the United States.
~ E. Michael Jones
Those who, rejecting Scripture, imagine that they have some peculiar way of penetrating to God, are to be deemed not so much under the influence of error as madness.
~ John Calvin
teeth. It was her offering which Aivas was rejecting. 'Of course,' and she brightened, 'we could keep some around to study and learn from, couldn't we?' She saw the horror and disgust of some of her colleagues. 'No, I guess we couldn't. Ah, well, back to microscope. My 98th batch of trials today.
~ Anne McCaffrey
Moving towards better rather than moving away from bad is an attitude of embracing life rather than rejecting it.
~ Dalai Lama
I would be cautious in embracing or rejecting doctrines. Had they been essential to our salvation, they would have been more explicitly declared in the Gospels, where we are so well taught the practice of every good word and work.
~ Dorothea Dix