Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory.

And then it happens, the most dreaded response in the world, more terse than any word, more withholding than a “no,” and strictly verboten for someone as in love with language and me as you...

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

The wind blew my words away from you. So while I told you I love you, the phrase was carried in the opposite direction and landed 333 miles away in the ears of a confused...

Well you won’t talk to him…and he’s feelingawfully lonely. And I think you hurt his feelings.” Then he made itbounce twice in agreement.Talaith covered her face and sighed. What exactly did hermother tell her the...

When you’re following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.

To erroneously assert that the unclaimed Shunemite does not treasure the opportunity misses the entire point of this superlative song. She wants to leave with Solomon. This earthly Shunemite would be willing to die to...

I’d been rejected, but I was still in love, so I decided to start over.

The world of romance and business works on this principle – You may be rejected several times, but not everyone will reject you.

Pity that child who was born near Rouen,His only crime, to arrive deformed.

Adversity is a school that you need not apply to be enrolled. It has no respect for age, wealth, education, race, power, fame or beauty. It is a school among schools and every human being...

Really, Mr. Collins,’ cried Elizabeth with some warmth, ‘you puzzle me exceedingly. If what I have hitherto said can appear to you in the form of encouragement, I know not how to express my refusal...

feel and release the pain what rejection gave you.slowly allow it to remove from your memory.

I loved a woman whose beauty Like the moon moved all the humming heavens to music till the stars with their tiny teeth burst into song and I fell on the ground before her while...

Sanji: That’s right he’s a rubberman Chopper: What do you mean?Sanji: I mean he’s a monster

If you mean your words, people who lust over your lovely ways won’t dare to reject you.

Love is a sport in which beautiful people excel.

Look for the person everyone hates, and love them.

If you chose my clone over me, you chose me over me. So I’d get chosen, and I’d get rejected.

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Rejection is part of the journey toward success, so don’t be insulted or get upset when it happens. In fact, get excited about how you just got closer to your “Yes!

In your experiment on life and love, I was the price you paid…and the one whom you hurt…I was your lab rat and you injected me with rejection o see how you’d fair, but the...

Hopefully, this new awareness and attention to the Holocaust will lead to a strengthening of those groups currently leading the struggle against anti-Semitism, a rejection of those groups both within Europe but also within the...

Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society’s definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference – those of us who are poor, who...

I asked the girl at the coffee shop out on a date. Unfortunately she said no, probably because I asked her out to coffee.

Friendship was a concept men bandied about to save face when they were rejected.

Beautiful publishers say beautiful things and then We’re sorry, but no… and then more beautiful things. It’s a shit sandwich with branston pickle and melted gouda.I read it out loud to the kids. I stick...

After you’ve found love, and you look back on the path you took to reach it, it all seems a bit silly. We spend so much time fearing rejection, when what we really should fear...

True, beneath the human façade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods of Southern Appalachia—but at least I’d learned to walk and talk enough like...

The pinnacle of human consciousness must be the rejection of unhealthy competition, war and violence.

I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous. Mourning something that never was – my dashed hopes, dashed dreams, and my soured expectations.

I asked her if she’d give me all her love, and she flatly said no. I got excited because while she said she wouldn’t give me all her love, she said nothing about not wanting...

I do not exactly know, for Henrietta and I were at school at the time; but I believe about a year before he married Mary. I wish she had accepted him. We should all have...

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

Investigation was like a series of job interviews. Getting the door slammed in your face at every attempt wasn’t the exciting life of the detective portrayed on film or television.

A man’s primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.

I don’t hate you, because hate is a feeling and I feel absolutely nothing for you.

This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don’t consider it rejected. Consider that you’ve addressed it ‘to the editor who can appreciate my work’ and it...

Bad luck with women is a determined man’s road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This...

Your writing can be chosen by one publisher and hated by all readers, or it can be rejected by one publisher and loved by all readers. Most of the time it’s somewhere in between, but...

The more Nos I open myself up to hearing, the closer I am getting to my super successful life.

I can help you, Jorge. I can give you back your self. I can give you your will.’ He held out his hand, palm open. ‘Free will has to be taken,’ I said.

It ain’t about your good or bad intentions, you just look so different.

Never rearrange your life in order to meet Mr. Darcy half way. If he couldn’t see your worth at the moment you met then he won’t two years later. May the halls of Pemberly be...

To think that two bodies, crooked by life into question marks, when encountering one another did not form a heart.. To do that, all we needed was to look each other in the eye. But...

We reject the idea of rejection. We don’t have some grizzled editor deciding who or what is worthy of publication. Lulu lets anyone publish their work — and the world decides on its merits.

Our sense is that the rejection was more a statement of employee sentiment in the airline industry rather than a statement regarding overall labor relations between UPS and the Teamsters, … However, we believe UPS...

If the attitude of many non-Catholic modern philosophers toward Catholic thought could be summarized in a single sentence, it would be: It has been tried, it has produced its definitive results, which have been found...

These are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one’s self.To mind one’s own business.Not to want to manage other people’s affairs.To avoid curiosity.To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.To...