#reject

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss. ↗

— Abba Eban

#governments #impulsive #into #lest #me

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. ↗

— Ryan Kwanten

#any #back #back up #business #care

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. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#certitude #entail #evidence #faith #free

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#devil #hardly #i #i am #onstage

I reject that. I would rather recruit a Racist left winger than a right winger. ↗

— Tom Metzger

#left #rather #recruit #reject #right

I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#agents #another #book #brown #deal

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. ↗

— James A. Michener

#better #customs #fear #food #home

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#facility #her #rejects #requires #rough

I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#i #life #notion #race #rejected

At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick. ↗

— Al Pacino

#career #children #deal #feel #get