Rejects Quotes - Page 11

• Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next will be drawn in blood.

  George Washington

  Peace, Opportunity, Blood

  Attributed to George Washington in the Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser (p. 3, column 1), November 14, 1787.

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• I don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

  Dorothy Fields

  Song, Writing, Plot

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• And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm.

  Stephen Fry

  Depression, Mean, Mad

  Stephen Fry (2003). “Revenge: A Novel”, p.158, Random House

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• Successful people reject rejection.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Successful, People

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• When any of us meet someone who rejects dominant norms and values, we feel a little less crazy for doing the same. Any act of rebellion or non-participation, even on a very small scale, is therefore a political act.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Crazy, Political, Littles

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• A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Men, Knowing, Firsts

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• I reject karma and rebirth not only because I find them unintelligible, but because I believe they obscure and distort what the Buddha was trying to say. Rather than offering the balm of consolation, the Buddha encouraged us to peer deep and unflinchingly into the heart of the bewildering and painful experience that life can so often be.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Karma, Believe, Heart

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• I don't think I'd ever reject anyone.

  Kevin Jonas

  Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For me, the entire journey of Lost has been walking that fine line between discovering Sawyer's humanity and, yet, keeping his edge of anger and destructiveness. He's been through every situation possible, emotionally and physically. Sometimes, it's been scary to get in touch with his growth, especially his relationship with Juliet. I really thought the audience might reject the softer side of Sawyer we saw in that. As for what will happen with him and Kate, all I can say is they have a love that is undeniable, but maybe it must be denied.

  Josh Holloway

  Journey, Scary, Humanity

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• We reject the use of national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime.

  Barack Obama

  Spy, Citizens, Use

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• Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.

  Bruce Lee

  People, Style, Add

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• Will African-Americans break away from the pack thinking and reject immorality-- because that's the reason the family's breaking apart--alcohol, drugs, infidelity. You have to reject that, and it doesn't seem--and I'm broadly speaking here, but a lot of African-Americans won't reject it

  Bill O'Reilly

  Thinking, Alcohol, Drug

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• There are many hypotheses in physics of almost comparable brillance and elegance that have been rejected because they did not survive such a confrontation with experiment. In my view, the human condition would be greatly improved if such confrontations and willingness to reject hypotheses were a regular part of our social, political, economic, religious and cultural lives.

  Carl Sagan

  Religious, Views, Political

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• You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.

  Morgan Brittany

  Rejects You, People, Rejection

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• Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This is a precarious race straddle that most members of the breakthrough generation seem to reject. Even the most well meaning white Obama supporters seem to take deep satisfaction in this idea. Obama, they insisted, could be raceless, a reasurringly optimistic view of America's deepest burden that ignores countless peices of evidence to the contrary.

  Gwen Ifill

  Optimistic, Views, Ideas

  Gwen Ifill (2009). “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama”, p.167, Anchor

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• When we're born. . . All of us. . . Are free. People who reject that, no matter how strong they are. . . Don't matter.

  Hajime Isayama

  Strong, People, Matter

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• Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

  Dan Inosanto

  Motivational, Individuality, Experience

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• Humans cannot reject temptation. When they are plunged into the depths of despair, likened to hell, they will hold on to anything that may help them escape from the situation they are in, even if it's merely a spider's thread, no matter what sort of humans they are.

  Yana Toboso

  Temptation, Despair, May

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• There is some who say that perhaps freedom is not universal. Maybe it's only Western people that can self-govern. Maybe it's only, you know, white-guy Methodists who are capable of self-government. I reject that notion.

  George W. Bush

  Government, Self, White

  Press Conference With the UK's Brown, www.washingtonpost.com. June 16, 2008.

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• There's a lot of people in the world who don't believe that people whose skin color may not be the same as ours can be free and self-govern. I reject that. I reject that strongly. I believe that people who practice the Muslim faith can self-govern. I believe that people whose skins aren't necessarily - are a different color than white can self-govern.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Skin Color, Self

  George W. Bush's Remarks with Prime Minister Martin of Canada in a Press Availability, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. April 30, 2004.

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• Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.

  Wole Soyinka

  Reality, Safety, Shadow

  Wole Soyinka, James Gibbs (1980). “Critical Perspectives on Wole Soyinka”, p.111, Lynne Rienner Publishers

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• Freedom to reject is the only freedom.

  Salman Rushdie

  Freedom

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.146, Macmillan

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• What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system

  Henry A. Kissinger

  America, People, Historical

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• I reject her [Ayn Rand's] philosophy. It's an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it is antithetical to my worldview. If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.

  Paul Ryan

  Atheist, Philosophy, Views

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• If today's arts love the machine, technology and organization, if they aspire to precision and reject anything vague and dreamy, this implies an instinctive repudiation of chaos and a longing to find the form appropriate to our times.

  Oskar Schlemmer

  Art, Technology, Organization

  Oskar Schlemmer, Tut Schlemmer (1990). “The Letters and Diaries of Oskar Schlemmer”

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