#rejected

Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer. ↗

— Patrick O'Brian

#unrequited-love #wallowing #love

So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#been #convention #democratic #getting #had

These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#blamed #fighting #man #men #never

I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like. ↗

— Sting

#family #i #like #losers #rejected

Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#discovered #encounter #etc #felt #first

I get mad at people who talk about traumatic job interviews, about going on one and getting rejected. I get rejected all the time and not only do I get rejected, but people have no problem being really specific about why I was rejected. ↗

— Julia Sweeney

#being #get #getting #going #i

The White House has a choice: They can change course, or they can double down on a vision of government that the American people have roundly rejected. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#american people #change #choice #course #double

When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed. ↗

— Felicity Kendal

#because #bills #could #dyed #felt

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests. ↗

— David Deutsch

#because #contain #experimental #explanations #fail

By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#by the time #completely #cultural #different #dynamic