Top 100 Rejects Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Submitted to the Sec. of War. On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong. It rejects the Christian principle of forgiveness on terms of repentance. I think it is enough if the man does no wrong hereafter.
Abraham Lincoln
#3. When any of us meet someone who rejects dominant norms and values, we feel a little less crazy for doing the same. Any act of rebellion or non-participation, even on a very small scale, is therefore a political act.
Charles Eisenstein
#4. The Truth part of the SET system is the most important and the most difficult for the borderline to accept since so much of his world excludes or rejects realistic consequences.
Jerold J. Kreisman
#5. The young [Nazi] movement is in its nature and inner organization anti-parliamentarian; that is, it rejects ... a principle of majority rule in which the leader is degraded to the level of mere executant of other people's wills and opinion.
Adolf Hitler
#6. Thiel rejects the small-mindedness of most of the Valley's entrepreneurialism. The motto of Founders Fund is: "We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters." But
Richard Byrne Reilly
#7. Be careful not to blame yourself if someone rejects Christ. If you do, you might be tempted to take credit when someone accepts him.
Craig Groeschel
#8. When a beautiful woman takes an idea firmly into her head, even if the walls are then thousand feet high, she cannot be prevented from carrying it out. But if she rejects it, yet it will be as though a thousand mountains kept you apart
Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
#9. Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.
Walter Darby Bannard
#10. I'll exercise in spurts, usually inspired by a dress that I have to fit into. But once that gown is squeezed into, if I continue to exercise, I get sick or I pull my back. For some reason my body literally rejects exercise.
Debra Messing
#11. In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.
Steven Pressfield
#12. What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones.
Ludwig Von Mises
#13. He that disobeys God, rejects his reign; and so God views it
John L. Dagg
#14. So think about the colour of that leaf from the perspective of the leaf itself. What colour it absorbs and what it rejects. Is its colour green? Or is it every single colour in the world, except green?' Shiva
Amish Tripathi
#15. If you believe in divine intervention, it's because you think that mankind is the best creation of all beings. But for those who do not think so, mankind is nothing but guinea pigs which will someday be divided into two categories, finished goods or the rejects.
Toba Beta
#16. When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.
Epicurus
#17. A person who rejects Christ may choose to say that I do not accept it, he may not choose to say there is not enough evidence.
Simon Greenleaf
#18. It is unbelief that shuts the door to heaven and opens it to hell. It is unbelief that rejects the Word of God and refuses Christ as Savior. It is unbelief that causes men to turn a deaf ear to the Gospel.
Billy Graham
#19. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear weapons by anyone, especially nuclear weapons in the Middle East region. We hope that such weapons will be banned or eliminated from the region by every country in the region.
Abdullah Of Saudi Arabia
#20. The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.
Aldrich Ames
#21. It is interesting that the U.S. has this very strong proportion of the population that rejects scientific conclusions about the age of the Earth and about evolutionary relationships between species, including humans.
Francis Collins
#22. 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.
Herbert Marcuse
#23. It is a frightening thing to love someone you know the world rejects.
Martha N. Beck
#24. I am god, I ruled to the whole world. Anybody obey my rules and regulations, I gave them wealth, prosperity and my blessings, if anybody rejects my orders I will give them negative blessings" said the god.
K. Chandramohan
#25. Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#26. A woman in love with a man who only rejects her could just about be the most dangerous thing on the planet.
Julie Hockley
#27. The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Peter Medawar
#28. Middle-out economics rejects the old misconception that an economy is a perfectly efficient, mechanistic system and embraces the much more accurate idea of an economy as a complex ecosystem made up of real people who are dependent on one another.
Nick Hanauer
#29. When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness - and one's mind becomes an organ one cannot trust any longer. It becomes what the mystics claim it to be: a tool of distortion.
Ayn Rand
#30. Moral compromise rejects the concept of right and wrong. It says that everyone is equal, all desires are equally valid, all action is equally valid, so everyone should compromise to get along.
Terry Goodkind
#31. I will survive: if the hell rejects me, there is always the paradise.
Lara Biyuts
#32. New Zealand totally rejects Japan's proposals to double the number of whales slaughtered in the Southern Ocean
Chris Carter
#33. Even a brilliant research scientist can waste his or her efforts, in [Stephan Hawking's] case on theoretically impossible lines of research, if he or she rejects clear evidence pointing to God.
Hugh Ross
#34. People always tell me I need to have a kid, and I say, No, I don't. Because I wouldn't have just one kid; I'd have six. I need a huge family. So I just kind of fill my house with tons of rejects and misfits so it feels like I have a bunch of children.
Chelsea Handler
#35. Satan is the ruler of humanity (John 14:30). The result is that lost mankind hates and rejects Jesus Christ: ... And, since unconverted mankind hates Christ, it also hates those who love Him and follow Him.
R. L. Hymers Jr.
#36. A true personality ... is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.
Gustav Mahler
#37. In our modern world, we often separate faith from practice. But the way of Jesus rejects this notion. Only living our faith offers the credibility to teach our faith. Anything less is less that the teachings of Christ.
Dillon Burroughs
#38. America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character.
Nancy Pearcey
#39. True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes ...
Teresa Of Avila
#40. Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your
old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart
Edith Wharton
#41. The greatest menace in this country is not the bootlegger, but the college professor who rejects the Bible and undermines the faith of the young.
Arno C. Gaebelein
#43. An intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being.
Georges Bataille
#44. The unbelieving world increasingly rejects the truth about God, while the believing world increasingly ignores the truth about God.
Jim Berg
#45. Any system of education ... which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.
Noah Webster
#46. Criminals, people who commit crimes, usually society rejects these people. They are also part of our society. Give them some form of punishment to say they were wrong, but show them they are part of society and can change. Show them compassion.
Dalai Lama
#47. What is so incredible and essential about an authentic cultural scene is it rejects a value system based on consumption and productivity and instead celebrates creation, critical thought, aesthetics and expression. That can't be mass marketed.
Claire Vaye Watkins
#48. Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages of alcoholism.
Chris Wooding
#49. The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.
Robert Motherwell
#50. Claiming that a person who views the Bible as nothing but a compendium of myths is thus denying the existence of a Creator is like claiming a person who rejects the junk science behind 'man-made global warming' is denying the existence of atmosphere.
Dave Champion
#51. Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the American culture.
Harvey Cox
#52. Like Wollstonecraft, Austen rejects the notion that 'man was made to reason, woman to feel.' Perhaps Austen was tired of reading passages in conduct books suggesting that young women were innately sensitive, quivering, emotional messes.
Emily Auerbach
#53. We call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was given last time.
C.S. Lewis
#54. I think I am done with Wikipedia for the time being. But I have a secret hope. Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue - a bin of broken dreams where all rejects could still be read, as long as they weren't libelous or otherwise illegal.
Nicholson Baker
#55. Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.
Ramakrishna
#56. Cynicism is when a small mind and a hurt heart rejects the hope, love, and truth of a big and caring God.
Jayce O'Neal
#58. I am who I am by choice. Society rejects me because I'm different; I reject society because they're all the same.
Travis Barker
#59. The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!
Jane Austen
#60. A truly beautiful woman is always good and the other women, and to people in general. She rejects rivalry, intrigue and dirty tricks.
Sharon Stone
#61. No community is easier to govern than one that rejects the very concept of community.
Stephen King
#62. A skydiver, arrogant in his ability to navigate the heavens, rejects his fragile state and calls himself a God of the skies.
Sarah Latchaw
#63. Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real, and you are still okay.
Melody Beattie
#64. Flesh will not stand in front of God, so all the decisions you make from your flesh will be paid for with your soul. Your flesh rejects the truth because it desires to do what it wants to do.
Monica Johnson
#65. The futuristic city on 'Legends Walking's cover rejects any connection with the contemporary setting of 'Changer.' It was as if every effort was made to keep readers of 'Changer' from finding this stand-alone sequel.
Jane Lindskold
#66. Every man who loses everlasting life rejects it himself. God denies it not to him-he will not come that he may have life.
Charles Spurgeon
#67. It's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or want to sort of undo or restrict the ... where science can go. The rest, you know, are just fine with science. And it has been that way ever since the beginning.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#68. The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
Tom Wolfe
#69. Exactly!' The pandit beamed again. 'So think about the colour of that leaf from the perspective of the leaf itself, the colours it absorbs and the one it rejects. Is its colour green? Or is it every single colour in the world except green?
Amish Tripathi
#70. New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.
Albert Einstein
#71. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#72. That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.
John Milton
#73. The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked ...
H.L. Mencken
#74. If the new government rejects our urgent appeal, we will, next year, in solidarity with our people, intensify our struggle for self-determination, our struggle for national liberation to establish self-government in our homeland.
Velupillai Prabhakaran
#75. A day in a man's life is constructed according to whether he accepts or rejects flashes of inspiration.
Eiji Yoshikawa
#76. The ethics of psychiatric therapy is the very negation of the ethics of political liberty. The former embraces absolute power, provided it is used to protect and promote the patient's mental health. The latter rejects absolute power, regardless of its aim or use.
Thomas Szasz
#77. I am a man who perceives life in a certain way, a man who rejects things that defecate on humankind, who rejects anything that will not give people room for dissent.
Harry Belafonte
#78. All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
Roger Bacon
#79. He who rejects the Bible has nothing to live by. Neither does he have anything to die by.
Greg Laurie
#80. Whereas a religion of many gods posits many myths to describe the human condition, a religion of one god tends to be monomythic; it not only rejects all other gods, it rejects all other explanations for God.
Reza Aslan
#81. To me-the foulest man on earth, more contemptible than a criminal, is the man who rejects men for being too good.
Ayn Rand
#82. There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.
Gene Wolfe
#83. But you did not know that as soon as man rejects miracles, he will at once reject God as well, for man seeks not so much God as miracles.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#84. He really was a very bad leader in that respect - and it was why his Arrows gave him their unswerving dedication. All of them rejects from the world, from their families. No one else had ever come for them, ever would. Silence or not, it mattered that Aden would.
Nalini Singh
#85. Atheism is the lack of belief in a god (or gods). It makes no claim. It merely rejects the claim that a god (or gods) exists. Nothing more.
Ricky Gervais
#86. Targets and timetables do matter. But there is a dispirited feeling that the U.S. just rejects multilateral target-setting for the time being.
James Cameron
#87. Bondage is when the mind longs for something, grieves about something, rejects something, holds on to something, is pleased about something or displeased about something.
AshTavakra
#88. What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.
John Mason Brown
#89. If you deny the existence of your fault or error, it will strengthen its hold over you. If you recognize it, your awareness will destroy it. He who rejects this will never know the entrance to the Temple.
R. A. Schwaller De Lubicz
#90. Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.
Francis Parker Yockey
#91. Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object
Albert Bandura
#92. In his numerous historical and Scriptural works Bauer rejects all supernatural religion, and represents Christianity as a natural product of the mingling of the Stoic and Alexandrian philosophies ...
Joseph McCabe
#93. The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
James Baldwin
#94. I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one.
Patrick Modiano
#95. The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.
Christopher Paolini
#96. Historically, a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.
Northrop Frye
#97. Favours to none, to all she smiles extends; Oft she rejects, but never once offends.
Alexander Pope
#98. If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living beings become your friends. The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts. Check your own mind to see whether or not this is true.
Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
#99. Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.' Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin
#100. 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
