Rejection Quotes - Page 19

There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.

Most writers, including myself, had to endure a lot of rejections before finally getting published. You could wallpaper a sizeable bathroom with the rejection slips I have received. Don't ever give up!

But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.

That rich guy you've been seeing, must have put you down. Welcome back baby, to the poor side of town.

I've been flushed from the bathroom of your heart.

We talked about it. An assistant coach suggested fouling, but I rejected it because I was afraid we'd foul them shooting and get beat that way. Hindsight couldn't have been worse than what happened to us.

But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance, with bravado, or with secrecy. And once a boy has suffered rejection, he will find rejection even where it does not exist-or, worse, will draw it forth from people simply by expecting it.

It's a withdrawal of love, coupled with rejection. That combination is hard to accept, and often triggers feelings of not good enough, failure at relationship, insecurity, lack of trust and other feelings.

The act of leaning in to kiss someone, or asking them, is fraught with the possibility of rejection, so the person least likely to get rejected should do the leaning in or the asking.

No one goes into standup to make money. The frustration and rejection are just too much.

As an actor, you deal with so much rejection and humiliation. When the good things come around, you tend not to trust your instincts.

I think with any sort of rejection, you're angry that you weren't enough for that person. So I don't know if I'm angry at myself for not being enough, or if I'm angry at him for not considering me to be enough.

I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.

Rejection always hurts, but having it come from my best friend was the worst.

Our times demand rejection of seven word bios.

I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying.

You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to autograph them and sell them at auction.

Rejection is nature's way of telling you to write a better book.

I was doing my best Bogart, but I was having trouble getting into her jeans.

The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual effort; it is the a priori of social theory, and its rejection (which is perfectly logical) rejects theory itself.

Break from self rejection, try some introspection.

It's not that I'm broken, and it isn't that I bleed. But when you pulled the stars from the heavens, it got so hard to see.

I'm sort of exploring where pacifism and socialism come into conflict. How do you reconcile a passionate rejection of might and violence with an attitude of "nil paseran" - "none shall pass" - in the face of fascism?

An excuse is a polite rejection. Men are not afraid of 'ruining the friendship.

A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.