Reject Quotes

#1. In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject her and all of her codependent baggage. I am Codependent No More.

Susan Juby

#2. The more she was absolutely in need of external friendship, the more disposed was she to reject it, and to declare to herself that she was prepared to stand alone in the world.

Anthony Trollope

#3. It seems almost inherent in human beings that when you are thriving for a certain level of spirituality, you tend to reject clothes, and the implied need to hide yourself.

Jim Dodge

#4. Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.

Bruce Lee

#5. Masturbating but did not. He didn't reject the idea so much

David Foster Wallace

#6. It's healthier to reject certain cautions than fall in line. I assume you know that, he said.

Don DeLillo

#7. Today I will learn to reject shame. Shame is an overwhelming sense that who I am isn't good enough. I realize that I am good enough, and that my imperfections are part of being human. I let go of shame.

Melody Beattie

#8. I had to get away from him. Sometimes we reject the people who tell the truth and it is not because they are wrong. It is because we can't

Rachel Joyce

#9. The masses are not happy enough to want more out of life and not unhappy enough to reject their way of living or want a better life.

Gudjon Bergmann

#10. I suspect anyone self-satisfied enough to refuse lawful pleasures: we are not sufficiently rich in our separate resources to reject the graces of the universe when offered ...

Freya Stark

#11. People have to understand that they can reject technology. They can turn off their cell phone. They can stop looking at their e-mail. It's there if they want it. It's not being forced on them.

Esther Dyson

#12. Our goals can only be achieved with a society that respects and equally protects the rights of every human being, old and young, rich and poor, regardless of gender, color, race, or creed. We must reject the initiation of violence by individuals or government as morally repugnant.

Ron Paul

#13. The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

Lucian Freud

#14. To reject revelational epistemology is to commit yourself to defending the truth of autonomous epistemology.

Greg L. Bahnsen

#15. God forgets those who reject proof that they are wrong.

Nachman Of Breslov

#16. To do something innovative means that you reject reason.

Jonathan Ive

#17. But aren't lovers always tempted to find another? You humans are lovers, yes? So you have this awful tendency to reject him who first loved you and follow after the intoxicating scents.

Ted Dekker

#18. The Balance, my boy, is the war that has been waged since before time was time, the battle within ourselves to do what is good and reject what is bad. It is a delicate line we all walk, a constant struggle of push and pull.

Nikolas Lee

#19. We each have a litany of holiday rituals and everyday habits that we hold on to, and we often greet radical innovation with the enthusiasm of a baby meeting a new sitter. We defend against it and - not always, but often enough - reject it. Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.

Ellen Goodman

#20. No authentic Messiah would inspire a religion that ended up calling upon the Jews to reject the manifest meaning of Sinai. It is really that simple.

David Klinghoffer

#21. Our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the '80s-rising debt, higher long-term interest rates, higher debt repayment costs, lower growth, higher unemployment, then enforced cuts in public spending. That was the old boom and bust.

Gordon Brown

#22. For the record? I have never been her baby. In fact, I reject the notion of coming out of her body. I prefer to believe I was hatched, or perhaps purchased.

Jen Lancaster

#23. I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods of the old religions as well as in the gods of modern nonreligions. I reject Jehova as I reject humanity.

Fernando Pessoa

#24. The touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil

Robin McKinley

#25. Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

Gary L. Francione

#26. Reject me and I don't know how to give up. Accept me and I will still continue.

Santosh Kalwar

#27. Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the situation, and if we try to become less so, we may accept a definition that confines the definition of small wins to narrower issues than is necessary.

Karl E. Weick

#28. Congress did not pass last year's 2006 budget proposals. The 2007 budget proposals are very similar, and once again unfairly target agriculture. I expect Congress to reject them again.

Saxby Chambliss

#29. Remember, the first presidential candidate to reject public financing for both the primary and general election was ... Barack Obama, in 2008. He did it, in spite of a flat pledge to the contrary, because his campaign saw that it could vastly outspend John McCain.

Jeff Greenfield

#30. Jesus came to save us: let us not reject this marvelous gift!

Pope Francis

#31. John Quincy Adams resolved to the discipline of rejecting argument for argument's sake would he sees that a fellow cabinet member is trying to draw him in to debating proposals the president will already reject.

Paul C. Nagel

#32. We reject the teaching that the work of the Holy Spirit in regeneration is dependent upon the exercise of man's free will.

Anonymous

#33. If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Ayn Rand

#34. We so much want social connection that we become afraid to say something that might make another person reject us. And yet, being vulnerable and having empathy are the most connecting things we can practice.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

#35. We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.

Daniel Kahneman

#36. Follow Your Heart
& The world Shall Follow YOU!
Reject it and It stops beating!

Sujit Lalwani

#37. Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience.

William Gaddis

#38. With wrong people, there has to be a choice, to stay with them and go down with them or reject them and suffer alone.

Auliq Ice

#39. Here's the grey rule: embrace things that lead you closer to Jesus, and reject things that lead you away from Jesus.

Trip Lee

#40. We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.

Glenn Beck

#41. I was being foolish. An atheist can't stand behind their assertion that God doesn't exist. The stupidest thing I ever could have done was to reject His Truth.

Kirk Cameron

#42. If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.

Augustine Of Hippo

#43. But it is a trait in the perversity of human nature to reject the obvious and the ready, for the far-distant and equivocal.

Edgar Allan Poe

#44. With regard to freedom of expression there are basically two positions: you defend it vigorously for views you hate, or you reject it in favor of Stalinist/Fascist standards.

Noam Chomsky

#45. When you can take something that is a reject at the thrift store sitting on the bottom of a pile of junk and make it work, make it look interesting, that's real style to me.

Erin Wasson

#46. Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

Rem Koolhaas

#47. I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#48. I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, there is a message that if you are sexy and you acknowledge that part of your personality publicly, then it's somehow an affront to women. And I reject that.

Megyn Kelly

#49. That which you cannot express is Love.
That which you cannot reject/renounce is Beauty.
That which you cannot avoid is the Truth.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#50. However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise.

Michael Foley

#51. Alistair would never reject her, never make her feel ashamed of her desires ... never make her hold back. - Felicity (The Pleasure Room)

D.N. Simmons

#52. When other people reject positive changes you make for yourself, there is always some nerve to get to the root of in those other people.

Jennifer Hudson

#53. Don't waste your love on stupid people. Anyone stupid enough to deny or reject it-in the midst of the Love Depression we're in-does not deserve it.

Perry Brass

#54. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all.

Gene Roddenberry

#55. Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.

Thomas A. Edison

#56. To break one's mask in the presence of someone you reject is an act of permanent separation. To say that you are finished with them in your life, so much so that you do not worry about them seeing your true face. You'll never see them again, so your secrets are nothing in their hands.

Sara Raasch

#57. I reject the premise that liberal and libertarian values are necessarily in conflict. In fact, I often self-identify as a 'classical liberal.'

John Mackey

#58. One cannot reject an entire nation because of the politics of its leader.

Letitia Baldrige

#59. To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.

Longchenpa

#60. The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#61. You can't reject anything in your life as an artist. Everything has its use.

Richard C. Armitage

#62. When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more.

Mayim Bialik

#63. Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of discrimination as well.

Gary L. Francione

#64. As a woman you must unite with other women for a while and perhaps even reject the world of men, just to balance yourself.

Frederick Lenz

#65. The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has - from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

Christopher Hitchens

#66. Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.

Mwai Kibaki

#67. We must always go for the best. Do not compromise on quality. Reject if it is not the best - not only the best in India, but globally.

Dhirubhai Ambani

#68. If you love someone and they reject and neglect, you gotta move on, there's no point running in circles for someone when there's no reward.

Shannon Leto

#69. My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient ancestry. I reject the heritage. I break the entail. And who are you to say I am unwise?

Jack London

#70. More important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy.

Walter E. Williams

#71. Regrets won't change anything. Don't Reject yourself. Just Refrain from what you did badly; repent and move on.

Israelmore Ayivor

#72. The only factor that poses a genuine challenge to the current order is the willingness of human beings to reject the injustice and irrationality of this economy, and stand up for something better. Capitalism will not fall-rather, it must be pushed.

Jim Stanford

#73. Should we act on our unseen fears before the virtue of human kindness? Who's given us more, the Light's faith or that stranger? And if you choose to reject generosity, then what standing do we have left in this world, or in the hereafter, for that matter?

Janny Wurts

#74. Successful people reject rejection.

John C. Maxwell

#75. Jeez, you're strong. And you, Sam, are a conversational reject.

Anne Tenino

#76. It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership. No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.

Bill W.

#77. Life is too long to reject the opportunities in front of you every day.

James Altucher

#78. I'm just another reject slowly slipping out of the gene pool to get hoovered up by the sex industry.

Mark Corrigan

#79. I, as an anarch, renouncing any bond, any limitation of freedom, also reject compulsory education as nonsense. It was one of the greatest well-springs of misfortune in the world.

Ernst Junger

#80. It's even difficult to hear that what we reject out there is what we reject in ourselves, and what we reject in ourselves is what we are going to reject out there.

Pema Chodron

#81. Don't cling to anything and don't reject anything.

Henepola Gunaratana

#82. Tsukuru couldn't fathom what this substance was. He couldn't accept or reject it. It merely settled on his body as a shadowy swarm, laying an ample amount of shadowy eggs. Then darkness would withdraw and twilight would return, bringing with it the birds, who once again slashed away at his body.

Haruki Murakami

#83. Under the oppression of the devil, we will eventually reject structure and accountability.

Steven B. Curington

#84. We both had to reject the concept of life after death, even if we weren't brought up to believe in it, because all human cultures are steeped in the idea.

John Varley

#85. To reject the notions of the eternal feminine, the black soul, or the Jewish character is not to deny that there are today Jews, blacks, or women: this denial is not a liberation for those concerned but an inauthentic flight.

Simone De Beauvoir

#86. Irony: When those who call others a 'threat to Christianity' reject the crucial tenets of their own faith themselves.

Christina Engela

#87. Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.

Marjane Satrapi

#88. We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.

Barbara Jordan

#89. I reject any pretence at kindness you have the hypocrisy to offer.

Emily Bronte

#90. Reject rejection! If someone says no, just say NEXT

Jack Canfield

#91. Many of us place top priority not on becoming Christ like in the middle of our problems but on finding happiness ... I must firmly and consciously by an act of my will reject the goal of becoming happy and adopt the goal of becoming more like the Lord ...

Larry Crabb

#92. In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.

J.B. Priestley

#93. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.

James H. Cone

#94. Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Marcus Aurelius

#95. I am a Catholic. As far as possible I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that He has spared me the indignity of being your representative!

Hilaire Belloc

#96. Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

Victor Hugo

#97. Upon us lies the responsibility neither to neglect things because they are old nor to reject them because they are new.

Percy Dearmer

#98. Make your church a context where parents know that the right response to their teenagers is never to reject them as human beings, never to throw them out.

David P. Gushee

#99. I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

Luke Ford

#100. You can scoff at opinions. You can reject hypotheses. You can discard theories out of hand. But you cannot reject the facts

Forrest Carr