Top 100 Rejects Quotes
#1. The Tea Party is a group that rejects deep thinking, it rejects the very complex analysis that is involved in public policy, it rejects the kind of textured decision-making that Ronald Reagan prided himself on.
Eugene Jarecki
#3. Rejection Is God's Protection
When someone rejects or breaks up with you, it may be a blessing in disguise. The person was not right for you. Or maybe you would have eventually been miserable with them. Now the door is open for someone else much better to come into your life.
Pamela Cummins
#4. Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought.
Tullian Tchividjian
#5. Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.
Michel De Montaigne
#6. The parliamentary principle of vesting legislative power in the decision of the majority rejects the authority of the individual and puts a numerical quota of anonymous heads in its place. In doing so it contradicts the aristocratic principle, which is a fundamental law of nature.
Adolf Hitler
#7. The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
Walter Ulbricht
#8. Jesus came to save us: let us not reject this marvelous gift!
Pope Francis
#9. 22 A beautiful woman who rejects good sense is like a gold ring in a pig's snout.
Anonymous
#10. You do not wish to earn your living, to have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! You will be different. Labor is the law; he who rejects it will find ennui his torment. You do not wish to be a workingman, you will be a slave.
Victor Hugo
#11. We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.
Daniel Kahneman
#12. But what do you think, my lady?'
'I think that she must be cruel if she wants to be loved,' Gertrude explained. ' For once a lady succumbs to the man's desire, he rejects her as unworthy of it.'...Was love like a hunger, easily satisfied by feeding? Or did it grow by what it fed on?
Lisa Klein
#13. A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory
John Steinbeck
#14. When God looks at a sinner who still loves his sin and rejects the mystery of the atonement, justice condemns him to die. When God looks at a sinner who has accepted the blood of the everlasting covenant, justice
A.W. Tozer
#15. The Baptist Church rejects man with wooden leg: It appears the Baptist preacher refused to baptize a veteran of the late war in the holy water- saying they only baptize flesh and blood, not wood.
Nancy B. Brewer
#16. 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
#18. But, ... we should first learn the winds and the nature of the sky, the customary cultivation and the ways of the place. What each region bears and rejects. Here corn shoots up, and there grapes do. Elsewhere young trees grow strong and the wild grasses.
Virgil
#19. 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
#20. Reject rejection! If someone says no, just say NEXT
Jack Canfield
#21. He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson
#22. The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that it is always interested more in one part of its object than in another, and welcomes and rejects, or chooses, all the while it thinks.
William James
#23. The reason that one person rejects you will be the exact same reason someone else is drawn to you.
Richard Fenton
#24. Life is a warfare; and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty
he betrays the noblest property of man, which is dauntless resolution; and he rejects the providence of that All-Gracious Being who guides and rules the universe.
Jane Porter
#25. An anarchist is someone who rejects the curious notion that crimes become virtues as they grow in size.
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
#26. We don't need to reject or disparage technology. We need to put it in its place,
Sherry Turkle
#27. I didn't want to be left alone with Timothy, not because I was afraid of him but because I was afraid that somebody would come into the office and see us sitting there, two matching rejects in matching orange chairs.
Michael Chabon
#28. The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.
William Hazlitt
#29. The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
Giordano Bruno
#30. If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.
Abraham Lincoln
#31. Was it always the desirable ones that sat in silence, and the misshapen rejects that prattled away unprompted?
Michel Faber
#32. If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.
William J. Clinton
#33. The fool will pay anything to live a few more years on earth, but the fool rejects the free gift of everlasting life. Salvation is a wise choice.
Felix Wantang
#34. A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.
Benjamin Franklin
#35. For among nations - as within nations - the soundest unity is that which respects diversity, and the strongest cohesion is that which rejects coercion.
Richard M. Nixon
#37. From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food which the civilized man rejects. The former has the palate of an outdoor man. It takes a savage or wild taste to appreciate a wild fruit.
Henry David Thoreau
#38. It seems harsh to many to think that God chooses some and rejects others, and does not consider men's worth, that by his own free will he chooses whom he pleases and moreover rejects others. But what is this scruple except a desire to call God to order and subject him to their judgment?
John Calvin
#39. Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.' Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin
#40. Those who have no prejudices in themselves do not reject people, and therefore people do not reject them.
Suzuki Shosan
#41. Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative.
Jean Cocteau
#42. For every person who might reject you if you live your truth, there are ten others who will embrace you and welcome you home.
Marianne Williamson
#43. Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.
Dean Koontz
#44. I'm a survivor in a business that constantly rejects you.
Dick Clark
#45. We must also reject the false choice of liberty versus security. We can and must have both.
Tom Ridge
#46. And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.
Stephen Fry
#47. The heart cannot rejoice in that which the mind rejects
Kenneth D. Boa
#49. The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self interest for himself, his family, and the future of his country to resist government abuse of power. He rejects the notion that patriotism means obedience to the state.
Ron Paul
#50. Christianity rejects tolerance and demands choice, wherein lies its greatest flaw - one of a multitude of contradictions found throughout the Bible and the historical doctrine of the Church.
Aaron B. Powell
#51. The mind, as a defense against the volume of today's communications, screens and rejects much of the information offered it. In general, the mind accepts only that which matches prior knowledge or experience.
Al Ries
#52. It's transparent, how willing we are to dismiss the intelligence of someone who rejects us, as though that renders them incapable of sound judgement.
Mary-Louise Parker
#53. Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.
Jean Cocteau
#54. God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects.
Mignon McLaughlin
#56. A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#57. Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#58. A man might desire something for a moment, while a larger part of him rejects it. You'll need to learn to judge people by their actions, not their thoughts.
Helene Wecker
#59. It would be easier for me to reject all established values, if I knew what they were.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#60. I think YouTube used to have a negative connotation, like it was the place where the rejects went and made careers, but I'm proud to be YouTuber. I wanted to be in that first generation of YouTube stars who transitioned into the 'real world.' It was a really good way to build my business.
Lindsey Stirling
#61. My heart cannot accept what my mind rejects.
Anonymous
#62. Every time you reject yourself, you idealize others
Henri Nouwen
#63. The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition.
Jean Cocteau
#64. Compassion is like mother giving love to her children. Mother's ways are higher than others, even when everyone rejects, mother accepts with her arms open and wide.
Amit Ray
#65. A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.
Ravi Zacharias
#66. Since the mind when distracted absorbs nothing deeply, but rejects everything which is, so to speak, crammed into it.
Seneca.
#67. I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.
Naguib Mahfouz
#68. The gospel stands as true for those who reject it as for those who accept it - both will be judged by it.
Boyd K. Packer
#69. In contrast, upgrading the healthy is an elitist project, because it rejects the idea of a universal standard applicable to all and seeks to give some individuals an edge over others. People want superior memories, above-average intelligence and first-class sexual abilities.
Yuval Noah Harari
#70. More contemptible than a criminal, is the employer who rejects men for being too good.
Ayn Rand
#71. [A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking.
Paul Bowles
#72. I think 90% of my ideas evaporate because I have a terrible memory and because I seem to be committed to not scribble anything down. As soon as I write it down, my mind rejects it.
Junot Diaz
#73. If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.
Ludwig Von Mises
#74. The mind rejects the very things worth knowing.
Hugh Howey
#75. Real love is never perplexed, never qualifies, never rejects, never demands. It replenishes, by grace of restoring unlimited circulation. It burns, because it knows the true meaning of sacrifice. It is life illuminated.
Henry Miller
#76. There's nothing you could really avoid about giving yourself to somebody who ultimately rejects you. That's just life.
Madeline Zima
#77. The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all.
Zhuangzi
#78. I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#79. America will not reject abortion until America sees abortion.
Frank Pavone
#80. Even if you reject everything, it is always better to know what it is you are rejecting.
Tariq Ali
#81. It is usually a mistake to reject something merely because it has been tried before and didn't work.
Robert G. Picard
#82. Allah the Exalted loves him who forgoes worldly life, the Angels love him who rejects the vices, and the Muslims love him who gives up greediness in respect of the Muslims.
Uthman Ibn Affan
#83. The Bible teaches there is hell for every person who willingly and knowingly rejects Christ as Lord and Savior. Many passages could be quoted to support that fact.
Billy Graham
#84. If my life were like the novels, this would be the dark period in act two after my one true love rejects me, where I reel off to do things I have to apologize for in act three.
Julio Alexi Genao
#85. When the enemy enthusiastically embraces you, and the fellow countrymen bitterly reject you, it is hard not to wonder if you are, in fact, a traitor.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#86. Rejects what is more great;
Lao-Tzu
#88. When you reject the genuine, you are wide open for the spurious. Paul wrote to the Thessalonians that when someone rejects the love of the truth that they might be saved, they will believe the big lie.
J. Vernon McGee
#89. I wanted to go to the rooftree of Maine to start my trip before turning west. It seemed to give the journey a design, and everything in the world must have design or the human mind rejects it. But in addition it must have purpose or the human conscience shies away from it. Maine
John Steinbeck
#90. The reasoning man who rejects the superstitions of simpletons necessarily becomes their enemy; he must expect as much and be prepared to laugh at the consequences.
Marquis De Sade
#91. The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak.
Roy Barnes
#92. There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish ... [T]he most important of all lessons is the denunciation of ruin to every state that rejects the precepts of religion.
Gouverneur Morris
#93. The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball screwed up.
Michael Lewis
#94. I don't think I'd ever reject anyone ...
Kevin Jonas
#95. Isn't that the greatest tragedy? When someone rejects us, no matter how they abuse our love, we hope against reason that somehow they will come back to us.
Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson
#96. The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition
Bruce Lee
#97. Man has not changed. Man still rejects the testimony of the Scripture.
Billy Graham
#98. Iran rejects weapons of mass destruction based on its belief system, its religious belief system, as well as well as its ethical standpoint.
Hassan Rouhani
#99. If somebody rejects you or your choices, you are still real, and you are still worth every bit as much as you would be if you had not been rejected.
Melody Beattie
#100. Thank God I got the rejects. These animals are very, very affectionate.
Eartha Kitt
