Top 254 Rejecting Quotes & Sayings

The sense of spiritual relief which comes from rejecting the idea of God as a supernatural being is enormous.

A move to decide citizenship on the basis of religion amounts to rejecting the Constitution.

Einstein was adamant in rejecting all ideas of a personal god.

I feel rejecting rejection is one of the most crucial steps in getting past failure.

By rejecting abortion-on-demand, we can move our party back to the mainstream.

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'

The people are rejecting so-called free trade and globalization that the elites presented as a positive thing.

How can the Jews be blamed for rejecting what was never offered?

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

I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

Most of my problems come from rejecting parts of myself.

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

Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.

You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness.

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream.

We all know there are problems with Obamacare, and Washington's implementation of it has been abysmal. But rejecting Medicaid won't fix any of those things.

From making it harder to register and stay on the rolls to moving and closing polling places to rejecting lawful ballots, we can no longer ignore these threats to democracy.

Even if you reject everything, it is always better to know what it is you are rejecting.

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

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

Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason, faith and feelings provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any whim. They are virulent poison, giving the numbing illusion of moral sanction to every depravity ever hatched. Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason’s light. Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason. In rejecting it, in rejecting reason, one embraces death.

I don't think I'm intentionally rejecting anything for the sake of rejecting it. I do think though that my style is hard to define around a certain signature. Perhaps the haphazard style will itself become a signature?

Homeland Security was rejecting, is rejecting terms like Jihad. They don't want to use terms like Jihad or Sharia, because they feel that alienates the youth in terms of propagandizing. However, an imam can talk about the killing of gays. To fight a cult, which is, this is the cult, you have to use the terminology of the cult, because how else can you explain what the cult and its practices are?

You can spend the rest of your life being afraid of people rejecting you. You have to start by not rejecting yourself. You don’t deserve it.

It is home schooling that is rejecting a narrowness. It is not a radical value system; it's actually quite conservative.

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

I was really ill growing up as my body was rejecting everything.

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.

You want to create an environment where we're fostering ideas, not rejecting them.

Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.

The Middle East is rejecting any other religions, so it's a one sided multiculturalism.

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 can't see how an unarmed man rejecting a drug deal ended up dead.

Rejecting offers has not been easy for me, especially when the movies involve some of my favourite actors and directors.

The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.

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

It is not a matter of who is rejecting me, as much as it is somebody may get it, and I am going to keep plowing through it because in this world of education, there is a harvest.

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

Rejecting all organs of informationbut my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical so uselessly occupy and disquiet the mind.

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

My mom would say I'm a good kid... but I put them through a lot. I was rejecting religion and, not permanently, also kind of rejecting the things that they'd taught me, and just trying to think for myself.

Corrigan told me once that Christ was quite easy to understand. He went where He was supposed to go. He stayed where He was needed. He took little or nothing along, a pair of sandals, a bit of a shirt, a few odds and ends to stave off the loneliness. He never rejected the world. If He had rejected it, He would have been rejecting mystery. And if He rejected mystery, He would have been rejecting faith.

I think that people on both sides of the aisle are rejecting what's going on with Washington and the establishment.

I think Enlightenment as an epistemic ideal involves rejecting the appeal to a fundamental stratum of non-conceptual self-evidence.

The experiences of your past life which are stored within come up to the surface to be rejected. By rejecting all these by and by the inside will have to be cleansed.

in rejecting secrecy I had also rejected the road to cynicism.

President Obama and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi represent what mainstream America is rejecting about Washington, D.C. And that is this out of touch with the people.

Rejecting Madrid? It's true that during the process, I decided to stay on the fringes. It was a time when I needed to think things through.

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

To a philosopher like Nietzsche, the Jew is culpable not for rejecting Christianity but for inventing it.

Any deep-rooted prejudice against others, such as homophobia or misogyny, would be grounds for rejecting a candidate for the priesthood, but not their sexual orientation.

I'd argue that people today aren't rejecting Christ so much as they're rejecting the church.

If we fail to forgive, we’re rejecting our own faith.

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

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

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.