Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
(n.) Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.
I have had a lot of crushes but have never had the courage to go up to a girl and say what I feel. I am scared of rejection.
We shouldn't romanticize rejection. There's nothing romantic about rejection. It's horrible.
I always knew I'd keep at it with the plodding doggedness that I used to master lump-less gravy and wriggle out of fitness classes; I always knew I'd get a zillion rejection slips. I figured I'd write...
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
People have rejected me all my life. Sometimes it's death or desertion. infidelity, betrayal. You name it. I've experienced every form of emotional treachery there is. Well, big deal. Everybody's suff...
And as a few strokes on the nose will make a puppy head shy, so a few rebuffs will make a boy shy all over. But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover...
As a matter of fact, she has refused to marry me.So when's the wedding? Ramsey asked.
Doesn't matter how pretty you are. What's important is how pretty you feel. No one feels pretty when they hear no often enough.
Escapaba a su comprensión el que un ser,independiente del parentesco que pudiera tener con otro, así no más, con la mano en la cintura rechazara de una manera tan brutal una atención.
For when a woman resists an unwelcome passion, she is obeying to the full the law of her sex; the initial gesture of refusal is, so to speak, a primordial instinct in every female, and even if she rej...
He made it very clear that he didn’t want me here, she said at last. That my remaining at the Institute is not the happy chance I thought it was. Not in his view. And after I just finished telling you...
He won’t say no, but who cares if he does? Do it. Hell, guys go through this every time they make a move on a woman, and none of them has died yet. In many cases, that is, of course, unfortunate, but...
I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.
It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.
My choices are rejections, since there is no other way,but what I reject is more numerous,denser, more demanding than before.A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable loss.
They laughed at him, but they didn't know, they didn't know about all the nice things he had. No one knew. No one. Only someday he'd see somebody different, somebody to give his things to, somebody wh...
Well, I warn you, love, that if you cast me out I shall build me a willow cabin at your gates - and likely die of inflammation of the lungs, for November is *not the month for building willow cabins!
You know how comfortably you go on as a bachelor, and how very much you would dislike to be tied to a wife’s apron-strings.He laughed a little ruefully, but denied it. I shouldn’t dislike being tied t...
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