Rejected Quotations

Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women.

I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended.

My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

There's something about being rejected - when I go out without my friends, I'm reminded of how I'm actually quite antisocial. I don't look like a guy who feels like that, but it's very hard for me to start up a conversation. At a party, I'm lost.

It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.

I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there.

The power of collecting money from the people is not to be rejected because it has sometimes been oppressive. Public credit is as necessary for the prosperity of a nation as private credit is for the support and wealth of a family.

My cards and flowers always got rejected on Valentines Day.

I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.

When I first went to college, I went to Western Michigan. I had been rejected by a bunch of schools for theater. I was like, 'I'm obviously not cut out for this, so I might as well just go into film.'

A lot of times, people are ashamed of feeling weak and being rejected - so it's liberating to be able to sing about those things. And it's amazing when other people don't feel alone because they hear it.

I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the right way after Ivy League college and onward and upward. And it rejected me, I rejected it, and I ended up as a kind of refugee, really.

I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.

The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her... She is Molly.

Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.

Don't let anyone, or any rejection, keep you from what you want.

If the 'Athens Spring' - when the Greek people courageously rejected the catastrophic austerity conditions of the previous bailouts - has one lesson to teach, it is that Greece will recover only when the European Union makes the transition from 'We the states' to 'We the European people.'

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected.

I've never chosen or rejected a role because of money.

My first novel took almost six years to sell and was rejected 37 times in the interim, and then finally sold for the smallest amount of money my literary agent had ever negotiated for a work of fiction.

Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of an established church.

Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.

When the sommelier Enrico Bernardo moved to Paris from Italy nearly two decades ago, the world of French gastronomy brutally rejected him. No matter that he had won the competition for best sommelier in Italy; when he asked 30 restaurateurs for work in their wine cellars, all turned him down.

Things don't get better when you become well known or go on TV. I'm just being rejected by a better class of women.

My record was so bad that I was first rejected by the Peace Corps as a poor risk and possible troublemaker and was accepted as a volunteer only after a great deal of explaining and arguing.

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons.

I was being rejected all the time. Agents would say, 'I don't think you're the type they're looking for.' I was always like, 'You think? I don't want you to think. I want them to think that.' This business is all about someone's opinion, but not the agent or the manager's. How do they know? They're not that person.

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

I would be rejected if I submitted any of my novels as romance novels.

If I get rejected for a part, I pick myself up and say, 'OK, not today, maybe tomorrow I'll get this other part or something.'

It won't be long before the Facebook generation will be rejected by the non-Facebook people who will be rejected by the post-Facebook people. Everyone will be on their own planet.

When I took the SAT, I didn't get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I've got honorary degrees from a lot of those schools that rejected me. Things are different now, but not that much different.

'The Cosby Show' made an impact on comedy, television and culture. We rejected lowering the bar.

J. K. Rowling's first 'Harry Potter' manuscript was rejected 12 times. Stephen King's 'Carrie' was rejected 30 times. 'Gone With The Wind' was rejected 38 times. I was immensely proud to have beaten them all.

For a decade, makers of AIDS medicines had rejected the idea of lowering prices in poor countries for fear of eroding profits in rich ones. The position required a balancing act, because the companies had to deflect attacks on the global reach of their patents, which granted exclusive marketing rights for antiretroviral drugs.

The point of an election is to evaluate someone's performance my performance as appointments chair, for example, to which the database that I developed is substantially connected. My performance as appointments chair was rejected by the student body.

Unfortunately, I think they tried to fight the inflation dragon a little too long, and rejected the counsel of the markets which urged them to cut rates as early as November that year.

We reject it. We have rejected their demarche.

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.

These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.

I feel crushingly embarrassed when I do bad work, so being rejected after doing bad work is actually harder than being rejected after doing good work.

I work constantly to be better at being rejected.

Even in success, you're going to be constantly rejected.

Offers come up, but I'm still fighting for jobs and auditioning and being rejected.

All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no.

We did make an offer. It's a joke. I think it's sort of funny. ... He certainly isn't the first player that rejected one of our offers, and I know that he won't be the last. That's his prerogative. That's part of the business. That's free agency. We wish him the best.

To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

We have received the official response: The Ukrainian side has rejected our offer.

The fact is they built a case on the backs of psychotics. Altogether they committed about 30 murders, these guys, and some of them are walking among us. The jury rejected that approach.

When I entered the market, I was rejected because the elite say that you have to sell things at a certain price point. My position was that the consumer is smarter than that. Who cares if it's $200, not $2,000?

The people of Kashmir have rejected those elections.

We're happy that the Supreme Court rejected R.I.M.'s efforts to create a huge loophole in the patent law.

When I make a decision, I'm going to be applauded or rejected by the electorate once every six years. There's an immediate response to any decision that a coach makes, and it's either the booing or applauding of those people in the audience.

When We sent to them two, they rejected both of them, then We strengthened (them) with a third, so they said: Surely we are messengers to you.

When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected

Several record companies had rejected my song 'Owner of A Lonely Heart' on the grounds it was 'too left field.' I never create to make a hit just to satisfy some record company executive's quarterly profit statement.

Mr. Williams has had his appeals heard by every possible court in the state and federal system, and all of them have rejected his claims.

My first reaction is a simple one: It could have been a lot worst. ... The president has not sent us a nominee that we've rejected already.

Nobody from the administration has officially rejected my column.

One part is absorbed in the blood to compensate for the losses that are constantly taking place through respiration and perspiration, and all the material that Nature cannot use is rejected in the form of excrement.

More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.

Obama hasn't passed a budget in four years, he's a wuss. Obama has rejected the recommendation of his own Simpson-Bowles, on a budget package, he's a wuss. He wants to lead from behind, he's a wuss!

On the critical issues of job creation, homeland security and national security, and who shares our values, they have adopted positions that may help them win their party's nomination, but will be rejected by the broader electorate next November.

I worked in restaurants and did what I needed to do to act. Theatre is a hard life. It sucks a lot of time, and you're rejected a lot. For six years, I acted for free. Now I make a living acting, but I think there are only five percent of us who can do that. I'm ready to try more.

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.

I don't feel like the Hanover voters rejected us last time. I feel like I failed in communicating with them.

I don?t know where he is. I don?t know who he is with. I don?t know how he is doing. I can?t let myself think how scared he might be or how rejected he might feel.

I basically worshiped J. Personally and creatively he was such a mentor, and to be rejected by him was crushing. At the same time being kicked out of that band was a great thing for me. Had I stayed, I doubt I would've been able to find my own voice.

Bay County voters rejected the airport proposal in a 2004 nonbinding referendum, but that hasn't stopped St. Joe or the state from pursuing this boondoggle. This is neither the time nor the place to build a destructive new airport as corporate welfare. We already have an underutilized airport that can serve the region well into the future when we will know much more about the troubled aviation industry, the realistic prospects for another airport, and the true environmental and financial cost.

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.

I go back to family: 'Ice Age' was about disparate characters rejected by their own kind. They come together to save the child. 'Despicable Me' is about redefining what a family could be. It has a visual distinction and an experimental quality.

He has been rejected by every state and federal court that has heard Williams' prior appeals, ... What they all determined was Williams was guilty.

He effectively rejected the opinion of the Supreme Court.

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

We're obviously very pleased that the District Court rejected the government's arguments and stayed the entire judgment.

He was really a neophyte when I first read his work. The O'Neill had rejected it five times, but the sixth time one of my readers said he had improved a great deal. He had learned to write dialogue, and now he was learning to write confrontations between two people.

has offered our musicians an extremely fair contract proposal. ... The contract includes increases in salary and benefits and fully protects the existing overtime system. They have rejected that proposal and walked away from the table.

It appears the Scottish people have rejected separatism this evening. There was a fundamental choice -- an expensive and messy divorce or the positive policies of Labour.

It is a fundamental engineering principal that GM knew about and rejected in 1972. As a result, we have people continuing to be burned in survivable crashes.

It is a formality that the new application will be rejected as Jason doesn't meet the criteria, so it will go straight to a review panel.

It is a dressing up of a rejected proposal, an aggressive plan for war. It polishes up a resolution rejected by the vast majority of the Security Council.

I think the American people said very clearly -- they rejected the extremism of the Republicans. That's why we won seats in the House. So, if they got the message from the American people that we have, we can meet in the middle and get these things done.

Last year nudity was new but this year there was nothing new to it so audiences rejected sleaze.

I think the reason why Pakistan has rejected Indian overtures in this case are the consequence of that long history of suspicion and hostility. You cannot do otherwise from a Pakistani perspective, ... They would not like Indian personnel, doctors, army men on the ground in that area.

Larry Hughes's agent informed us that Larry is not returning to Washington, ... He rejected our final offer which we regarded as very fair and very meaningful. We have a lot of outstanding players on this team including All-Stars Gilbert Arenas and Antawn Jamison, and we will add players that will continue to make us a very competitive ball club. Our goals remain the same which is to be a perennial playoff contender.

Irish eyes are surely smiling -- and we all will be breathing easier -- with this green court ruling on St. Patrick's Day. The court recognized the blarney in the administration's plan to gut a key part of the Clean Air Act and rejected it. Now thousands of dirty facilities will not be able to pollute more.

rejected by the Iraqi people in its entirety.

People in this community rejected that. We don't know why.

State regulators twice rejected the proposed Islander East pipeline because it poses a significant threat to water quality and critical marine resources in the Long Island Sound,

Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home.

I worked for many years as a writer for children and then wrote two adult novels of the kind they call 'literary' without any very great disturbance to this kind of life. Then, something went wrong. My third adult novel was rejected by the publisher of the first two. And I could not understand the criticism offered.

I was honored he asked me, but I didn't feel bad about turning him down. Woody turned me down as a player. He rejected me.

Justice rejected our latest response, ... It's reasonable to say that neither side will continue to talk to each other about a resolution.