#rejected

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953. ↗

— Leon Uris

#best #book #cry #first #nine

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#decided #got #i #quicker #rejected

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#conservatism #discards #future #having #makes

Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#allies #appeal #bin #gone #great

These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected. ↗

— Edmund White

#being #felt #hurt #i #life

Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved. ↗

— Jane Alexander

#approve #approved #cannot #council #i

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected? ↗

— Chastity Bono

#else #everyone #how #i #life

I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#armed #because #christian #committed #here

Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#directors #everybody #i #lot #rejected

I'm glad I'm not bisexual. I couldn't stand being rejected by men as well as women. ↗

— Bernard Manning

#bisexual #glad #i #men #rejected