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Aging gracefully - A that is rejected in 40s, but gracefully accepted in 50s... — Sandhya Jane

After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract. — J.A. Konrath

Don't kill yourself just because you think and feel you are empty. God needs empty vessels to fill! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Prayer is never rejected so long as we do not cease to pray. The chief failure of prayer is its cessation. — Peter Forsyth

They have rejected that power and sought to convince women of the exact opposite, that they are powerless. — Frederick Lenz

Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected. — Helen Fisher

I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there. — Poe Ballantine

In rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism. — Catherine Marshall

When you have been often rejected, you become traumatized and develop a kind of apathy and nonchalance to being accepted. — Emmanuel Olawale

Sabbath on Saturday in favor of The Lord's Day (Sunday). (Mag 9.1), rejected Judaizing (Mag 10.3), first use of term Christianity (Mag 10). — Josephus

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Describe the God you've rejected. Describe the God you don't believe in. Maybe I don't believe in that God either. — Timothy Keller

The emotional question became why Susy had rejected me. I was interested in that shift, from actively wanting to actively not wanting. — Olivia Sudjic

Everything Satan has to offer you is a collection of what Jesus rejected; it is the garbage bin of Jesus Christ. Matthew 4:1-17. — Felix Wantang

We are all broken shards of glass, rejected building stones, being fitted into a temple we cannot fully even imagine. — Russell D. Moore

I have friends who are black whose families opened their arms to them when they came out; I have friends who were white where they were rejected. — Adepero Oduye

How painful it is to find that my figure can be of no help to my future ... how painful to see it rejected on account of a slanderous suspicion! — Auguste Rodin

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle. — Sigrid Undset

I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape. — John Bunyan

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I hate being rejected... SAYYYYYYYYYY MY FUCKING NAME "Bill". — Deyth Banger

To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all. — Jane Austen

Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone? — Trenton Lee Stewart

Theory A widely accepted hypothesis that stands the test of time. Theories are often tested, and usually not rejected. — Jean Brainard

Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected ... Suffering and being rejected are not the same. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953. — Leon Uris

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. — Stan Kelly-Bootle

I was Pluto, her rejected planet, but that didn't mean I could stop her from being the center of my universe. — Blakney Francis

Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected. — Charles Krauthammer

Zuckerberg rejected $2 billion for Facebook and has successfully created a company worth nearly $200 billion. — Jay Samit

It's always the same: mediocrities are over-valued and great men are rejected. — Anton Webern

they that reject and disregard the unripe fruits are they that enjoy the ripe fruits — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons. — Peter Zumthor

Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved. — Jane Alexander

We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected. — Dalai Lama XIV

The touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil — Robin McKinley

If I'm going to be rejected, I'd like it to come complete with humiliation. — Katja Millay

He had tried so hard so many times, and she had always rejected him. He would not give her another chance, she knew.
-Sky — Melissa De La Cruz

These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity. — Herbert Read

You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't. — M. Night Shyamalan

I have to fight to keep my image really me ... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me. — Avril Lavigne

The knowledge of rejection, of being unwanted, is more terrible to live with than anything else, and a rejected child will usually never get over it. — Jennifer Worth

I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else. — Philip Yancey

I never went to film school, so I never had the chance to be rejected. — Wes Craven

Statistically speaking, the Cheerful Early Riser is rejected more completely than a member of any other subculture, save those with boot odor. — Ellen Goodman

If one must be rejected, one succeed, make him my lord within whose faithful breast is fixed my image, and who loves me best. — John Dryden

To be loved out of sympathy is more devastating than to be rejected.
-Shinobu — Shungiku Nakamura

I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull. — Helen Fielding

Religion, for instance, cannot be accepted or rejected out of hand, until the student knows exactly what religion means. — Idries Shah

We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed. — R.C. Sproul

If you truly believe in something
that is totally rejected by others,
then you've just made a difference. — Toba Beta

You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature. — Paul Lauterbur

Someone who could shed tears for their friends ... could never be rejected from Fairy Tail! — Hiro Mashima

I was willing to be rejected. That's what allows you to be a good salesperson. You have to be willing to be rejected. — Atul Gawande

Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected. — Eartha Kitt

If I get rejected for a part, I pick myself up and say, 'OK, not today, maybe tomorrow I'll get this other part or something.' — Liam Neeson

You can't call yourself a Christian and discriminate against others, especially innocent people. Jesus rejected no one. That's nothing but the devil! — Charlay Marie

The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence. — Willie Soon

Sidious rejected outrage and intimidation for rankled curiosity. Is this the point where I'm expected to ask why I've been abducted? — James Luceno

It is unpleasant and disturbing to be rejected. It is deeply satisfying to be accepted. — Stephen Covey

Once the tyranny of literalness is rejected, all relevant considerations for giving a rational content to the words become operative. — Felix Frankfurter

From the beginning, I got all Emirates cabin crew applicants psychometrically tested. Those who didn't want to be nice to others got rejected. — Maurice Flanagan

Mankind soon will be forced to utilize a kind of technology that's still rejected by current civilization. — Toba Beta

Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system. — Howard Gardner

As writers, we should remind ourselves, and each other, that Jane Austen and JK Rowling got rejected by publishers, too. — Joanne Van Leerdam

Any lawyer worth his salt knew the first offer had to be rejected. — John Grisham

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The Stone the Builders Rejected. — Jack London

Christians rejected the need for proof to support belief in God, yet dismissed proof altogether when it was there. — Kira Peikoff

When would-be reformers arise, they are rejected as heretics, turncoats, troublemakers, disturbers of the peace, traitors, and enemies. — Brian D. McLaren

Either God must be unjust, or you, Jews, wicked and ungodly. You have been, about fifteen hundred years, a race rejected of God. — Martin Luther

The changes have awarded me a rapture that comes only when you can no longer be lied to, when you have rejected the Dream. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Truth is first rejected. Then finally accepted. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Most girls swoon when I talk to them. So quit ignoring me."
"So go talk to them," Kara slammed her locked shut and walked away. — Alexis Tiger

adding options can be detrimental to our well-being. Because we don't put rejected options out of our minds, — Barry Schwartz

But Jacob was divinely chosen and his brother, the first-born, was rejected. — John Calvin

To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected. — Preity Zinta

I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible. — Salman Rushdie

I've never chosen or rejected a role because of money. — Dennis Christopher

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench. — Wilbur Smith

The stone that the builders rejected has now become the cornerstone. — Anonymous

Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different. — John Scalzi

I got rejected from journalism school! — Lynsey Addario

A lot of people offered me to go public, but I have always rejected it. — Roustam Tariko

I'd been rejected, but I was still in love, so I decided to start over. — Steve Jobs

When we move toward rejected emotions and surround them with loving attention, they quickly break into manageable bits until they are gone. — Deborah Sandella

I was rejected, never given any expectations ... Then at least, I won't be a burden to others. It's alright if the only one who hurts is me ... ! — Jun Mochizuki

The next time you feel rejection's sting, remember God's words to Samuel: "It is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me." (1 Sam. 8:7) — Beth Moore

We are afraid of failure, of ridicule, of being rejected. We are afraid we're not good enough. — Rhonda Britten

All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no. — Barbara Corcoran

Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people ... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press. — Fred Barnes

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design. — Mikhail Kalashnikov

As the world continues to find new ways to tear itself apart, humans still love, hate, feel rejected and yarn to be close to someone. — Billy Idol

I'm sufficiently independent to know that I can live well and comfortably all the rest of my life whether I'm rejected or not. — Rod Serling

I have rejected religion and society. What is left for me? — Daniel A. Craig

God is the most rejected person in the history of the universe. If — John Ortberg

Rejected names for World War II: 'Global Super Killfest', 'Germaniacal Japandamonium', 'World War 1: New Moon'. — Dana Gould

But also there are all the famous stories about the songs that have been rejected, but then went on to become hits. — Cynthia Weil

I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home. — Norman Fell

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

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school. — Craig Thompson