Rejects Quotes - Page 4

• I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Religious, Motherhood

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.72, A&C Black

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• Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.

  Germaine Greer

  Way, Shame, Achieve

  "Guilt poisons women" by Germaine Greer, www.cnn.com. March 12, 2013.

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• I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.

  Zahi Hawass

  Running, Egypt, Media

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• Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the art and entertainment that's available.

  Penn Jillette

  Art, Want, Entertainment

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

  Barbara Jordan

  Party, Order, Innovation

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.

  Barbara Jordan

  Community, Together, Done

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

  William Morris

  Art, Hate, Real

  William Morris (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)”, p.6494, Delphi Classics

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• I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Dirty, Naughty, Views

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• At home, we must reject the mistaken notion - a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long - that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Home, Government, Long

  Nixon, Richard M. (1975). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973”, p.75, Best Books on

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• I remember thinking that a girdle was barbaric, and that never in a million years would I treat myself like a sleeping bag being shoved into a stuff sack. Never! Instead, I would run marathons and work out and be in perfect shape and reject the tyranny of the girdle forever.

  Susan Orlean

  Running, Sleep, Thinking

  "Bulge" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 15, 2010.

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• I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.

  George Osborne

  Class, Ideas, People

  "More Blairite than Tony" by Heather Stewart, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• And conservatives know that if you reject these principles of limited government and urge others to reject them you can be my ally, you can be my friend but you cannot call yourself a conservative.

  Mike Pence

  Government, Allies, Principles

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

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• It is time to let America be America again. To return freedom to the people. To stand on our founding principles and reject the cynical politics of the Nanny State.

  Rick Perry

  America, People, Cynical

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• We stand up and proudly proclaim that Washington is not our caretaker and we reject a state, in Margaret Thatcher's words, a state that takes too much from us to do too much for us.

  Rick Perry

  Too Much, States, Caretakers

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• Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Worship, True God

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• In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.

  J. B. Priestley

  Warfare, Nuclear, Bombs

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• If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Civilization, Religion

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.63, Penguin

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• The really important thing is not to reject anything.

  Susan Sontag

  Important, Important Things

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.33, Macmillan

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• When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you've created together collapses, and that everything you see or do reminds you of them, the worst is the thought that they tried you out and, in the end, the whole sum of parts adds up to you got stamped REJECT by the one you love. How can you not be left with the personal confidence of a passed over British Rail sandwich?

  Helen Fielding

  Missing, Together, Add

  Helen Fielding (2016). “Bridget Jones's Diary: Picador Classic”, p.122, Pan Macmillan

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• But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.

  George MacDonald

  Heart, Depth, Voiceless

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.46, Delphi Classics

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• The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.

  Rob Bell

  Atheist, Ideas, Missing

  Rob Bell (2010). “Sex God”, p.80, Harper Collins

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• We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same; we feel that Beethoven himself, gloomy and awe-inspiring, is playing the “Es muss sein!” to our own great love.

  Milan Kundera

  Love Is, Light, Hands

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• And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a white crow. Both for a philosopher and for a scientist it can be important not to reject the possibility of finding a white crow. You might almost say that hunting for 'the white crow' is science's principal task.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Mean, Hunting, White

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• Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.

  Charles Frazier

  Hurt, Forever, Sin

  Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.393, Random House

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• There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience.

  John Owen

  Way, Revelations, Obedience

  John Owen (1852). “The Works ...”, p.158

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