#rejection

As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, 'She looks too healthy,' which of course translates as, 'She needs to lose weight.' ↗

— Christina Ricci

#favourite #healthy #looks #lose #needs

I had come to regard the U.S. Senate's rejection of the League of Nations as a tragic mistake. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#had #i #league #mistake #nations

I told the ambulance men the wrong blood type for my ex, so he knows what rejection feels like. ↗

— Pippa Evans

#blood #feels #i #knows #like

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett) ↗

— Jane Austen

#behaviour #declaration #empowerment #gentlemanlike #gentlemen

If the attitude of many non-Catholic modern philosophers toward Catholic thought could be summarized in a single sentence, it would be: It has been tried, it has produced its definitive results, which have been found lacking, and now its time is past ↗

— Gregory B. Sadler

#catholic-philosophy #catholic-thought #christian-philosophy #christianity #history-of-ideas

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#death

There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters. ↗

— T.L. Rese

#rejection #writing-life #death

So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection. ↗

— Patricia Velasquez

#been #good #handle #hard #here

I'm fresh out of fucks to give. ↗

— Tucker Max

#rejection #sex #humor

The wind blew my words away from you. So while I told you I love you, the phrase was carried in the opposite direction and landed 333 miles away in the ears of a confused farmer. He was nice, though. He sent me a kind letter saying that while he was flattered, I wasn’t really his type. 
 ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#distance #farmer #farmers #kindness #land