Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henepola Gunaratana

Don't cling to anything and don't reject anything.

Plato

The best stomachs are not those which reject all foods.

Laura Kightlinger

I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.

James Lee Burke

Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.

James Lee Burke

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.

James Lee Burke

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

James Randi

Science is a search for basic truths about the Universe, a search which develops statements that appear to describe how the Universe works, but which are subject to correction, revision, adjustment, or even outright rejection, upon the presentation of better or conflicting evidence.

Jon Ronson

But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.

Jon Meacham

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.

Marlo Thomas

In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.

Francois Fenelon

The gifts of God are not to be rejected on account of the channel that brings them.

Elaine Paige

Learn to take rejection, keep fit and work only with the best in your field.

Madeline Zima

There's nothing you could really avoid about giving yourself to somebody who ultimately rejects you. That's just life.

Leo Strauss

The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism — nay, it is identical with nihilism,

Lauren Bacall

Acting is a life of rejection.

Laurell K. Hamilton

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

Gail Collins

Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.

Joseph Murray

The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?

Loni Anderson

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

Marilyn vos Savant

I?d rather be rejected than used because they both amount to the same thing in the end, but being used takes a lot longer.

Ryan Kwanten

As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius you are, if you don't have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you're not going to survive.

Rose Byrne

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

Philippa Gregory

I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.

Vicente Fox

We want from here to express our solidarity and our support to all the victims of these acts of terrorism and their family members. We reiterate our complete, emphatic rejection of all forms of violence and all forms of terrorism.

Thomas Huxley

I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application of scientific methods of investigation to all the problems with which the human mind is occupied, and the correlative rejection of traditional beliefs which have proved their incompetence to bear such investigation.

Robert Montgomery

So we said to ourselves, if we can remove antibodies from someone who's in the middle of a terrible rejection, and save those kidneys, then we should be able to remove them before surgery

Roselyn Sanchez

This is my motto: Rejection is God's protection.

Rod Stewart

I want to dance, I want her ass. Why is she ignoring me?

Sasha Grey

Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.

Samuel Johnson

Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.

Trenton Lee Stewart

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

Vikas Swarup

I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

Salman Rushdie

Freedom to reject is the only freedom.