Reject Quotes

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. (James A. Michener)
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. View quote
Ronald Reagan
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. View quote
Gertrude Stein
The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity. View quote
Steve Biko
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world - we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. (William Morris)
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. View quote
Elie Wiesel
Even if you reject everything, it is always better to know what it is you are rejecting. View quote
Tariq Ali
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 losses. View quote
Wisława Szymborska
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you free. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer
I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them. View quote
Kathleen Norris
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions. View quote
Baron d'Holbach
In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that. View quote
Manuel Puig
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. View quote
Barbara Jordan
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)
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives. View quote
Morris Raphael Cohen
And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination. View quote
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
In order to receive forgiveness, we need to place our trust in Christ as our Savior and the Lord of our lives. But if we reject Christ, then we reject God's mercy and fall back on His justice. And you know where you stand there. If we reject Jesus' offer of forgiveness, then there is simply is no one else to pay the penalty for your sin – except yourself. View quote
William Lane Craig
Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort. View quote
John Forbes Nash