Rejecting Quotes

• When I say, 'The choice to not marry,' that doesn't always translate into, 'I am a woman, and I am deciding that I am not going to get married,' or 'I am rejecting marriage.'

  

  Rebecca Traister
  • Married
  • Deciding
  • Rejecting

• Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.

  

  Reince Priebus
  • Promise
  • Washington
  • Candidate

• In October 1917, we parted with the old world, rejecting it once and for all. We are moving toward a new world, a world of Communism. We shall never turn off that road.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Moving
  • Communism
  • October

• We never slam the door on flattery, we nudge it shut like a man rejecting his mistress: if she nudges back, we're delighted – and if she breaks it down, we rejoice.

  

  Walter Wangerin
  • Doors
  • Flattery
  • Mistress

• I enjoy looking, learning, smiling, and engaging with art, sometimes even rejecting it.

  

  Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis
  • Enjoy
  • Smiling
  • Rejecting

• Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person of color rejecting identity politics.

  

  Michelle Malkin
  • Identity
  • Persons
  • Contempt

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

  

  Catherine Marshall
  • Positive
  • Cynicism
  • Rejected

• The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Truth
  • Hypothesis
  • Rejecting

• You don't sit there at twenty-five, unpublished, inexperienced, and respond to Susan Sontag's editorial suggestions like a little snot, rejecting every one of them. But it had a lot to do with the fact that I didn't admire Susan's own fiction.

  

  Sigrid Nunez
  • Fiction
  • Admire
  • Rejecting