Rejects Quotes - Page 39

• Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

  Seth Godin

  Mind Your Own Business, Tyranny, Poke

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.21, Penguin

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• Nobody got me out," Nellie replied. "They just let me go. They think I'm a deranged Jonah Wizard fan. Apparently, the hotel's full of them. A couple of idiots actually jumped off the front balcony. Can you picture that?" "In Technicolor," Amy said bitterly. "That low-down KGB reject!" Dan fumed. "I can't believe she cheated me–right when I was in the middle of cheating her!

  Gordon Korman

  Cheating, Couple, Believe

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• First you inspect me Then you dissect me Then you reject me I wait for the day That you'll resurrect me "Animate

  Gayle Forman

  Waiting, Firsts, Where She Went

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.124, Penguin

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• The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition

  Bruce Lee

  Ambition, Men, Self

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art”, p.129, Tuttle Publishing

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• He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and ideas being watched but not acted upon, he thought of impulses being starved of expression and dying out and floating dryly away.

  David Foster Wallace

  Expression, Ideas, Dying

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an officer class. That is why every newly minted constable, regardless of their educational background, has to spend a two-year probationary period as an ordinary plod on the streets. This is because nothing builds character like being abused, spat at and vomited by members of the public.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Educational, Character, Thinking

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• …not a fighter… an adventurer. He doesn’t attack, he engages; He doesn’t defend, he expands; He doesn’t destroy, he transforms; He doesn’t reject, he explores; ….

  Tom Robbins

  Fighter, Adventurer

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• Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.

  Hermann Hesse

  Beautiful, Clever, Mean

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.29, Om Books International

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• Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. When man rejects reason as his standard of judgement, only one alternative standard remains to him: his feelings. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feelings with knowledge

  Nathaniel Branden

  Commitment, Judgement, Feelings

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden (1965). “The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism”

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• The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

  Jane Austen

  Men, World, Offers

  "Fictional character: Emma". "Emma", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages of alcoholism.

  Chris Wooding

  Soldier, Firsts, Stage

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• Let people realize clearly that every time they threaten someone or humiliate or unnecessarily hurt or dominate or reject another human being, they become forces for the creation of psychopathology, even if these be small forces. Let them recognize that every person who is kind, helpful, decent, psychologically democratic, affectionate, and warm, is a psychotheraputic force, even though a small one.

  Abraham Maslow

  Hurt, People, Helpful

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• We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Perfection, Humanity, Imperfect

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, 1982.

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• I'm not hopeless, that's the problem. I'm too hopeful, if anything ... I'm so thick-headed it's taken me this long to give up on men, but I can't give up completely, you know? So I ... I channel all my hope into an idea, to someone who can't reject me because he isn't real!

  Shannon Hale

  Giving Up, Real, Taken

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• Get away from my ex-girlfriend, you moany little whinge-bag.' Caelen took a deep breath, like he was in pain, and stood up. His voice was low, guttural. 'I was hoping I'd get the chance to kill you.' 'You won't be killing anyone, you sad little emo git.' 'You've stood in the way of our love for long enough.' 'Just listening to you makes me want to top myself, you self-pitying Paranormal Romance novel reject.' Caelen glared. 'Stop insulting me.' 'Why? If you cry will your mascara run?

  Derek Landy

  Running, Girlfriend, Emo

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• Dance with me,' Win said. 'I know I'm probably making a fool of myself. You're probably thinking, how many times do I have to reject this guy? Can't he take a hint?' I shook my head. 'But somehow I don't even care. I see you in your red dress, standing by the punch table, and something in me wants to keep trying. I think, she is a person worth knowing.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Winning, Thinking, Knowing

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• The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Real, Party, Thinking

  Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5207, NYU Press

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• The Samaritan woman grasped what He said with fervor that came from an awareness of her real need. The transaction was fascinating. She has come with a buket. He sent her back with a spring of living water. She had come as a reject. He sent her back being accepted by God Himself. She came wounded. He sent her back whole. She came laden with questions. He sent her back as a source for answers. She came living a life of quiet desperation. She ran back overflowing with hope. The disciples missed it all. It was lunchtime for them.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Spring, Real, Water

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• A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Believe, Men, Vanity

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands--whether of individuals or entire peoples--need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world.

  Paulo Freire

  Lying, Fighting, Hands

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.32, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdain'd For thee to disdain it. One hope too like dispair For prudence to smother, I can give not what men call love: But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And heaven rejects not: The desire of the moth for the star, The devotion of something afar From the sphere of our sorrow?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Stars, Heart, Men

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, “To”

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• Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of discrimination as well.

  Gary L. Francione

  Racism, Links, Discrimination

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• Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not to be treated as the property or resources of humans.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Fundamentals, Moral

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• If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which all sentient beings depend.

  Gary L. Francione

  Matter, Violence, Vegan

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• Satan frequently steals the will of God from us due to reasoning. The Lord may direct us to do a certain thing, but if it does not make sense - if it is not logical - we may be tempted to disregard it. What God leads a person to do does not always make logical sense to his mind. His spirit may affirm it and His mind reject it, especially if it would be out of the ordinary or unpleasant or if it would require personal sacrifice or discomfort.

  Joyce Meyer

  Sacrifice, Mind, Ordinary

  Joyce Meyer (2011). “Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle of Your Mind”, p.81, Hachette UK

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