Rejected Quotes

Here lay Cain's fatal mistake: "He was rejected, not because he was a sinner, but because, being a sinner, he had dared to approach a holy God without blood."

The White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected.

There are no halfway measures against bigotry, hatred and anti-Semitism. It's got to be rejected totally.

Theories are not rejected by cirsumstantial evidence: it takes a theory to beat a theory.

Every time you get rejected, say: 'Next!'

I failed, many times in my life. One failure that I always remember was when my second book was rejected by 36 publishers. Many years later, I watched HuffPost come alive

The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes.

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.

I didn't have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you're rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You're behind the eight ball when you go in there.

I think when the world makes you feel rejected, you bite back.

It had never once occurred to me that the paper I wanted to work for would not want me. Certainly I never expected to be rejected solely because I was a girl!

I had been rejected, but I was still in love.

If you don't go to a dance you can never be rejected but you'll never get to dance either.

I?d rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.

I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot.

It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected.

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

Judging is a preemptive attack against that which you most desire - intimacy and acceptance - that is launched before you can be rejected or refused.

Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.

Old rules and habits have to be rejected and dismissed so that something new can be created.

You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.

Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.

The black man in America is the same as the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. We are strangers in a land that is not ours. We are rejected by this type of modern Pharaoh or pharohnic society.

Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.

If you understand why a monkey in a family is always mocked and harassed, you understand why monks are rejected by all--both old and young.

I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there.

I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.

It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present.

I felt attacked because people rejected me. They didn't say "we can give you money to do something else if you want," they just said "no, this movie cannot be done" and I said "okay, so I'll do it!"

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

Historically we have rejected extremism on the left and the right. Centrism is the right course for America.

I support strong sanctions and other penalties against those who aid violent extremists, brutalize their own people and have time and time again rejected calls to behave as responsible nations.

You take the risk of being rejected.

Sabbath on Saturday in favor of The Lord's Day (Sunday). (Mag 9.1), rejected Judaizing (Mag 10.3), first use of term Christianity (Mag 10).

The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.

Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?

If you're not being rejected regularly - maybe you're not trying hard enough.

Stay enthusiastic after getting rejected.

Whenever anybody does something in a big way, it's always rejected at home and accepted someplace else.

What the use of P [the significance level] implies, therefore, is that a hypothesis that may be true may be rejected because it has not predicted observable results that have not occurred.

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.

I love the acting process. What I don't like is what's around it. The auditions and being rejected every other day. The look thing. That you have to lose weight, that you have to do Botox.

LGBT youth face a much higher risk of violence and homelessness after being rejected by their family of origin.

And if you feel that everyone has rejected you and your ideas let me tell you this, you are most assuredly in good company.

Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.