Rejection Quotes - Page 15

• Unless a woman asks men out (the first time) as often as men ask her out, then the assertion 'He asked me out, therefore he pays' is just a double jeopardy of the male role: he must not only do the asking, he must pay extra for risking extra rejection.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Pay, Firsts

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• He was as needy as she was. Alvin Finch only wanted to be needed. Loved. And absent of either, he resorted to deflecting his pain by killing. Just like a teenager might resort to deflecting the pain of rejection by cutting. People did a lot of crazy things to be wanted.

  Ted Dekker

  Pain, Crazy, Teenager

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• I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Book, Three, Agents

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• And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.

  Roger Ebert

  Sex, Teenager, Imagine

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• Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect. They know that basic human problems can have no final solutions, that our freedom, justice, equality, etc. are far from absolute, and that the good life is compounded of half measures, compromises, lesser evils, and gropings toward the perfect. The rejection of approximations and the insistence on absolutes are the manifestation of a nihilism that loathes freedom, tolerance, and equity.

  Eric Hoffer

  Good Life, Fighting, Men

  "The Temper of Our Time". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1967.

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• Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns--fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns--seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Perspective, People, Important

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• Take the time you need to learn the craft. Then sit down and write. When you hand over your completed manuscript to a trusted reader, keep an open mind. Edit, edit, and edit again. After you have written a great query letter, go to AgentQuery.com. This site is an invaluable resource that lists agents in your genre. Submit, accept rejection as part of the process, and submit again. And, of course, never give up.

  Kathleen Grissom

  Giving Up, Writing, Hands

  Kathleen Grissom (2014). “The Kitchen House: A Novel”, p.376, Simon and Schuster

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• The wall that protects you from rejection also keeps out love and success. Accept your abundance.

  Randy Gage

  Wall, Abundance, Accepting

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• Learn to take rejection, keep fit and work only with the best in your field.

  Elaine Paige

  Fields, Fit

  "Portrait of the Artist: Elaine Paige, Actor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2007.

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• I was absorbing a sorry truth of show business - rejection is the norm and acceptance the oddity. I was learning to cut the tops off my highs and stay with the lows where the rejections and letdowns would be shallow.

  Joan Rivers

  Sorry, Cutting, Acceptance

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• The Anarchists' uncompromising rejection of the State, the subject of Marxian sneers for its "absolutist" and "Utopian" character, makes much better sense in the present era than the Marxist relativist and historical approach. The pacifists also seem to be more realistic than the Marxist both in their understanding of modern war and also in their attempts to do something about it.

  Dwight Macdonald

  War, Character, Historical

  Dwight Macdonald (194?). “Root is man: progressivism vrs. radicalism”

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• The preceding criticism justifies the following definition of the entire human: human existence as the life of "unmotivated" celebration, celebration in all meaning of the word: laughter, dancing, orgy, the rejection of subordination, and sacrifice that scornfully puts aside any consideration of ends, property, and morality.

  Georges Bataille

  Laughter, Sacrifice, Dancing

  "On Nietzsche". Book by Georges Bataille, p. xxxii, 1945.

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• Blay said yet again, that old, familiar voice cutting through all of those years of rejection and judgment, giving him not just a rope of acceptance to hang on to, but a flesh-and-blood hand to lead him out of the darkness of his past... And into a future that didn't require lies or excuses, because what he was, and what they were, was both extraordinary-and not hing out of the ordinary. Love, after all, was universal.

  J.R. Ward

  Lying, Cutting, Acceptance

  J.R. Ward (2013). “Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.578, Penguin

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• The times in my life when I've been my thinnest, I've been a walking psycho wreck. Forget the fact that I was basically starving myself; skinny was usually due to some kind of loss. Death. Rejection. Divorce.

  Stephanie Klein

  Divorce, Loss, Wrecks

  "Moose: A Memoir". Book by Stephanie Klein, www.today.com. 2008.

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• To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.

  Stephen Covey

  Judging, Understanding, Insecurity

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• Skid marks all across my brain, cause you're leaving me with so much pain. I was pretty sure that you could be the one, now it is evident that it was hit and run.

  Bootsy Collins

  Running, Pain, Leaving

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• She took off her wheel, took off her bell, took off her wig, said, how do I smell? I hot footed it barenaked out the window.

  Bob Dylan

  Smell, Hot, Wigs

  Song: I Shall Be Free, Album: The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

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• She didn't mean to be unkind, why she even woke me up to say good-bye.

  Jerry Lee Lewis

  Mean, Bye, Unkind

  Song: She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye

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• Oh these little rejections how they add up quickly, one small sideways look and I feel so ungood. Somewhere along the way I think I gave you the power to make me feel the way I thought only my father could.

  Alanis Morissette

  Father, Thinking, Add

  Song: So Unsexy, Album: Under Rug Swept, 2002

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• My place, your place, slapped face, rat race.

  Roger Daltrey

  Race, Rats, Faces

  Song: It Don't Satisfy Me, Album: Under a Raging Moon

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• I was doing my best Bogart, but I was having trouble getting into her jeans.

  Jackson Browne

  Jeans, Trouble, Bogart

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• I'm free to give my love, but you're not the one I'm thinking of.

  Neil Young

  Thinking, Giving

  Song: Keep The Homefires Burning

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• In my new life, no room for a lost boy.

  Tori Amos

  Boys, New Life, Rooms

  Song: Operation Peter Pan

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• In the twilight glow I see her, blue eyes crying in the rain. As we kissed goodbye and parted, I knew we'd never meet again.

  Willie Nelson

  Goodbye, Rain, Twilight

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• Is it my sweat that's no longer sweet?

  Rod Stewart

  Sweet, Sweat

  Song: Move Me

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