(351 quotes found)
“An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.”
Bo Bennett
“Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science”
Gary Zukav
“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
“I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.”
Billy Joel
“Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford]”
Sex and the City
“If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government.”
William Blackstone
“Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.”
Charlie Chaplin
“I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.”
Sylvester Stallone
“Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.”
Simone de Beauvoir