Rejection Quotes - Page 13

• You don't dig me, I don't understand what it is, I had my car reupholstered.

  Frank Zappa

  Car

  Song: Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder

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• You left me for a dream you had to follow, but I thought goodbye wouldn't last that long.

  Travis Tritt

  Dream, Goodbye, Long

  Song: If Hell Had a Jukebox

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• You need to hit the door, search for a new guy. Cause I only got one night in town.

  Tupac Shakur

  Night, Doors, Guy

  Song: I Get Around

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• You say you're looking for someone who'll pick you up each time you fall, to gather flowers constantly and to come each time you call, a lover your life and nothing more. But it ain't me, babe.

  Bob Dylan

  Fall, Flower, Over You

  Betsy Bowden, Bob Dylan (2001). “Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob Dylan”, University Press of Amer

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• You took a poison arrow and you aimed it at my heart. It's heavy and it's bitter, and it's tearing me apart.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Heart, Arrows, Poison

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• What bothers me most is that I don't bother you.

  Waylon Jennings

  Bother

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• Well, it's a Bloody Mary morning, my baby left without warning.

  Willie Nelson

  Baby, Morning, Warning

  Willie Nelson, David Ritz (2015). “Mein Leben: Eine lange Geschichte”, p.134, Heyne Verlag

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• This time I hurt her more than she loves me.

  Conway Twitty

  Hurt

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• The primary concern of the human animal is to avoid rejection and abandonment.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Animal, Abandonment

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• So you want to be married, oh baby, trying to put me on a chain, ain't that some shame? You must be losing your weak little mind.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Baby, Mind, Trying

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• Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear, you almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear?

  Elton John

  Hook, Tonight, Sugar

  Song: Someone Saved My Life Tonight

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• Thank God and Greyhound you're gone.

  Roy Clarke

  Thank God, Gone, Greyhounds

  Song: Thank God and Greyhound

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• That rich guy you've been seeing, must have put you down. Welcome back baby, to the poor side of town.

  Johnny Ramistella

  Baby, Guy, Towns

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• Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.

  Christopher Lasch

  Parent, Grace, Generations

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• There's no greater power than the power of good-bye.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Bye, Greater Power, Good Bye

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• They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.

  Eric Clapton

  Hero, Gun, Gutters

  Song: Watch Out For Lucy, Album: Backless, 1978

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• They say that breaking up is hard to do, now I know, I know that it's true.

  Neil Sedaka

  Knows, Hard

  Song: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

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• Your empty eyes seem to pass me by and leave me dancing with myself.

  Billy Idol

  Eye, Dancing, Empty

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• [Rejection] made me quit writing once. For six months. I started up again when my then seven-year-old son asked me to start writing again because I was too grumpy when I wasn't writing.

  Kirby Larson

  Writing, Son, Years

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• Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection.

  Criss Jami

  Fighting, Men, Order

  Criss Jami (2012). “Venus in Arms”, p.38, Criss Jami

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• Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.

  J. B. Jackson

  Reform, Restoration, Incentives

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• Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body of knowledge open to rejection or confirmation.

  Michael Shermer

  Past, Religion, Atheism

  Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.145, Holt Paperbacks

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• It’s being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and it’s like you may as well have thrown it down a well. It’s not all champagne and doing interviews with The New York Times.

  George R. R. Martin

  New York, Book, Years

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• Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout and it invariably evokes the immune rejection response.

  Richard Pascale

  Learning, Knowledge, Discovery

  Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin (2010). “The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems”, p.112, Harvard Business Press

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• Rejection-and the fear of rejection-is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.

  James Altucher

  Faces, Fear Of Rejection, Impediments

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