Rejecting Quotes

People think there's a single solution to complex problems, and the solution is often making an enemy of a group of people - pulling back and rejecting the other.

The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious.

We never slam the door on flattery, we nudge it shut like a man rejecting his mistress: if she nudges back, we're delighted – and if she breaks it down, we rejoice.

Whilst large organisations need foresight, they are also notorious in their bias for short term thinking, sometimes rejecting or even suppressing foresight.

Rejection never feels good, but it certainly hurts less when we are not needing something from the person who is rejecting us.

Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing.

Nobody will be sent to hell for rejecting a gospel they've never heard.

We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it. ... I will govern as a reformer.

The girls go to the gang in order to get protection from victimization that's occurring in their lives. And also it's a place to be, because they're often rejected from and rejecting their families.

I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

When I first came USA, I didn't feel this was my home. This was where I was studying, and then my home was now rejecting me.

It is rather shocking to note that opposition leaders, who are representatives of the wananchi (citizens), are themselves rejecting the participation of the wananchi in this major public issue.

Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.

Those who adhere to the ideology of rejecting Israel’s right to exist, they might as well reject the earth beneath them or the sky above, because Israel is not going anywhere.

We don't need a president like a Trump who doesn't actually, George, doesn't even believe in climate change, let alone wants to do anything about it, rejecting science.

Debating, doubting, or rejecting the basic scientific facts about climate change in the face of the overwhelming evidence and overwhelming scientific opinion will not change those facts.

In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

The fastest surging woman leadership position is heading non-profit organizations. Women are not rejecting leadership positions -- they're rejecting politics.

Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him.

I trained myself. Long ago, 'Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.

Moving towards better rather than moving away from bad is an attitude of embracing life rather than rejecting it.

Believing something doesn't change who you are. Neither does rejecting something you once believd in.

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible ... the establishment defends itself by complicating everything to the point of incomprehensibility.

Some people have a fear of rejecting all the security that comes with family, church and state. They become fundamentalists.

Most of my problems come from rejecting parts of myself.

Sometimes it's just rejecting stereotypes, sometimes it's creating work. Sometimes it's just blocking out the noise.

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.

Most of our fears are borrowed. Since that’s the case, we should get busy returning them.

The key for having success is totally rejecting thoughts that try to sow doubts into your conscience