#rejection

It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#denial #distinguish #general #impossible #mind

'Shoot the wounded... what we do to people who are the most vulnerable... we 'shoot the wounded.' As if they haven't suffered enough, we add to it by gossiping and treating hurt people like outcasts." ..."I think we killed Ronnie's spirit... Instead of coming alongside her and supporting her through this, I failed her... ↗

— Lynn Dove

#gossip #hypocrisy #rejection #religion #shooting-the-wounded

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying. ↗

— Anita Diament

#explaining #fiction #got #historical #historical fiction

I loved a woman whose beauty Like the moon moved all the humming heavens to music till the stars with their tiny teeth burst into song and I fell on the ground before her while the sky hardened and she laughed and turned me down softly, I was so young. ↗

— Peter Meinke

#poetry #rejection #beauty

Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#end #end of the tunnel #figure #how #light

I think with any sort of rejection, you're angry that you weren't enough for that person. ↗

— Jennie Garth

#any #enough #i #i think #person

As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#fear #rejection #thing #work #worst

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#atoms #belief #contingent #forces #heart

There's no point in dwelling on rejection. ↗

— Isabel Lucas

#no point #point #rejection

I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother. ↗

— Derek Luke

#black #black or white #colors #everybody #father