Rejection Quotes (211 Quotes)


    I think I'm extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection. Never feeling like you're getting that pat on the back from dad is probably at the heart of that.

    I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.



    The key to not allowing the rejection to sideline you is to understand that it is not personal. They are not rejecting Sabrina, the person. They are rejecting the blonde 6-foot-tall girl who isn't quite what they're looking for this day, at this casting, for this client, in this market.


    This approval is another example of the benefits of our agency's 'orphan' drugs program, which seeks to answer the medical needs of small groups of patients. The doctors who perform approximately 2,200 heart transplants in the U. S. each year will now have a new option for enhancing successful outcomes by preventing the rejection of the grafted organs.

    But Card wasn't there to prepare Bush for his meetings in Europe. Instead, he presented the President with a 1.5-in.-thick binder of eight policy options for reorganizing the Federal Government to guard against terrorist threats. Included was an idea Bush had resisted for months the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the first new Cabinet-level department in more than a decade. Card walked Bush through the proposals and showed him a case study of how Harry Truman created the Pentagon in 1947. One option Bush rejected, Card says, was to move the National Guard from the Defense Department to the new department. And the overhaul did not encompass the agencies most in need of reform--the FBI and the sprawling U.S. intelligence community. Taking on those powerful bureaucracies would have meant a bigger war than Bush was ready to wage. The options were gradations from do nothing to do it all, ... pretty close to do it all.

    attempted to browbeat and coerce' the second grand jury to change its decision not to indict DeLay so there would be no public record of a rejection.


    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.



    It's the conflict that makes you write in the first place. The publishing process itself is an obstacle. Editors come and hold your work hostage for five or six months and sometimes your own ego can get in the way. You need a thick skin because rejection is commonplace.


    I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.

    Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner this is the Lords doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes.


    Most people have come to prefer certain of lifes experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that may come wrapped in plain and even ugly paper. In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all costs, we may be left without intimacy or compassion in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness.

    But when Brian committed them to the picture and he said that they would provide new songs, they said, Well, we're not going to write any decent songs, we'll give them all the rejects we didn't really want.



    That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up, and so should relatives who are without affection.

    The problem is one of opposition between subjective and objective points of view. There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. But often what appears to a more subjective point of view cannot be accounted for in this way. So either the objective conception of the world is incomplete, or the subjective involves illusions that should be rejected.


    Knowing that you're the one who's been rejected, God it makes you feel isolated. I defy anybody not to be a bit upset. I felt as though I'd walked into the house trailing all this baggage.

    Rejection would be a disaster for the U.S., but ratification alone will not end our problems in Iraq. Even if the constitution is ratified, the insurgents are not going to lay down their arms.

    You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the dis

    I think the process is unfair. I think it's been politicized, ... The public is sick and tired of bickering. Even if Judge Pickering is rejected, I hope we would follow the precedents of Judge Robert Bork and Justice Clarence Thomas and other federal nominees and have the full Senate consider the matter.

    Growing discontent within the Congress with India's nuclear activities would complicate matters enormously for the advocates of the India-U. S. agreement. Rejection of the deal by the Congress will kill it.

    Now my venerated friend, you will perceive that Texas is presented to the union as a bride adorned for her espousal. But, if, now so confident of the union, she should be rejected, her mortification would be indescribable. She has sought the United S


    Time Warner management has offered several reasons for not completely separating the cable business and buying back Time Warner shares aggressively, ... rejects management's arguments against separation and challenges management's capital return plan as a weak attempt to silence growing investor criticism.

    They the Persians are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine but whatever they in this situation may determine is again proposed to them on the morrow, in their cooler moments, by the person in whose house they had before assembled. If at this time also it meet their approbation, it is executed otherwise it is rejected. Whatever also they discuss when sober, is always a second time examined after they have been drinking.

    Seven years ago, the pair says they submitted a film to Sundance and didn't even get a rejection letter after paying the 50 entrance fee. The time when we needed Sundance was when no one knew who the hell we were, and we had this film we wanted people to see, ... When we needed it most it wasn't there, and when we needed it the least they were all over us.








    Audrey was a princess, so natural, the camera really loved her... James and I kept each other company during all the rejections. We used to meet, have a cup of coffee and went from office to office to get work and never got work.

    Rejection of the constitution would be an embarrassment for the Bush administration, but for the long-term future of Iraq, I think it might actually be a way to turn a constitutional process into a real mechanism for political settlement.

    The extreme right divides, sorts out and rejects, ... It wants to introduce inequality and discrimination into the heart of the Constitution. It is an engine of exclusion, discord and violence.


    I understand that on Monday, our final offer was rejected, so I think that one is finished, unfortunately. We have made a fantastic offer for the player and really, there is a limit on how much you can spend on one player.

    Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

    We are here because cooperative relations with China are in the American national interest. Every president for 30 years has come to that conclusion, and a rejection of this agreement would be a vote for an adversarial relationship with the most populous nation of China.

    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.

    It is only in recent years that many of the potential immunological problems, such as transplant rejection, have been solved, meaning the process of transplanting organs from one species into another could soon be a reality,



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