#rejecting

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#advance #civilization #merely #nasty #nicer

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.' ↗

— David Hockney

#corner #doing #enough #exploited #i

But if, on the other hand, we should be justified in rejecting it, if there testified on oath, then, supposing our rules of evidence to be sound, we may be excused if we hesitate elsewhere to give it credence. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#elsewhere #evidence #excused #give #hand

You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness. ↗

— Joy Page

#any #aspect #being #creates #denying

It's not a deliberate thing. It's not like I was rejecting the UK, which is what the papers said. It's just that when you spend a lot of time in your formative years around an accent, you're going to pick it up. I had been living in LA for a bit and that's what happened. ↗

— Joss Stone

#around #been #bit #deliberate #formative

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#being yourself #chaos #learned #rejecting #you

I started rejecting the proper way to sing and I started singing. ↗

— Adam Lambert

#proper #proper way #rejecting #sing #singing

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#conventional #does #formulating #hope #left-wing

The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#college #got #i #life #me