(351 quotes found)
“To deny sex is to deny life. To reject art is to impoverish yourself, rejecting pleasure and growth. To accept sex and art together is to add to oneself, to be positive instead of negative. Erotic cinema . . . reveals us to ourselves with increasing artistry.”
William Rotsler
“I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.”
Jennifer Aniston
“You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?”
Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.
“I'm sorry to sayso but, sadly it's truethat bang-ups and hang-upscan happen to you”
Dr. Seuss
“George Orwell, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein and almost any writer you could name received rejection letters, ... Margaret Mitchell got rejection letters from 38 different publishers before anyone finally deigned to publish her novel, 'Gone With The Wind.' How many talented writers are there who gave up without ever making it into print because of misguided rejection?”
Bob Young
“But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him”
Bible
“It's a withdrawal of love, coupled with rejection. That combination is hard to accept, and often triggers feelings of not good enough, failure at relationship, insecurity, lack of trust and other (feelings).”
John Seeley
“Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.”
Will Ferguson
“After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.”
Wallace Stevens
“And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner? / Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.”
