When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .
Socrates
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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
Mahatma Gandhi
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.
Luc De Clapier De Vauvanargues
Congress rightly rejected this measure last year and must reject it again.
Caroline Fredrickson
Rejected by the Iraqi people in its entirety.
Massoud Barzani
In spite of the fact that we had no legal obligation, we engaged in conversations with them over the summer and made them an offer of a second contract, which they rejected unequivocally.
John Beckman
We could have met several times in December; unfortunately, PTEA rejected all of those dates.
Margaret Dininno
Add on the fact that the Patent Office has rejected all the patents at issue and it's a pretty compelling case.
Henry Bunsow
She rejected our offer, and we rejected her offer.
Mayor Lori Holt Pfeiler
Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.
Lars Von Trier
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
Robert Motherwell
Has offered our musicians an extremely fair contract proposal. ... The contract includes increases in salary and benefits and fully protects the existing overtime system. They have rejected that proposal and walked away from the table.
Radio City Entertainment
This is entirely in the lap of the government at this point. It's up to the government to decide whether they want to prosecute Dr. Al-Arian on the basis of evidence rejected by this jury or if they want to deport Al-Arian, or if they'll allow him to live in the country in peace.
Linda Moreno
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.
David Deutsch
Salzburg was where he was born and where he was rejected.
Lorin Maazel
It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.
Barry Switzer
I love awards, especially if I get them. It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.
Ben Gazzara
The Attorney General is pleased that the court rejected the defendants' claim that the legal theory of misdemeanor manslaughter was somehow flawed.
Michael Healey
The extremist, isolationist policies of Jean-Marie Le Pen have been rejected and crushed.
Romano Prodi
Ninety-nine percent of the compounds rejected for drugs is because they are so toxic. That's a problem we don't have.
Robert Carlson
We've offered to save this district well over $300,000 in health care and this district has rejected it.
John Holland
Congratulations. You've all just been rejected and you're still alive. We're trying to create an atmosphere of freedom and fun around asking. Getting a no doesn't make you a loser and saying no doesn't make you a heartless monster. No just means no.
Andrew Schwartz
This case is about the revenge of a suicidal teenage girl. This case is about the retaliation of a teenage girl who was obsessed with Daniel and rejected by Daniel.
Myron Takemoto
Mr. Williams has had his appeals heard by every possible court in the state and federal system, and all of them have rejected his claims.
Nathan Barankin
We have received the official response: The Ukrainian side has rejected our offer.
Sergei Kuprianov
In every work of genius we see our own rejected thoughts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our negotiating team has recommended to our executive that the offer be rejected. Our executive is prepared to recommend to our membership that it be rejected.
Wayne Peters
Irish eyes are surely smiling -- and we all will be breathing easier -- with this green court ruling on St. Patrick's Day. The court recognized the blarney in the administration's plan to gut a key part of the Clean Air Act and rejected it. Now thousands of dirty facilities will not be able to pollute more.
John Walke
Much of the evidence was not given in public, so nobody knows what they have accepted, what they have rejected and why. A lot of people, marginalized people and in particular the Muslim community, will think it's a put-up job.
Michael Ellman
George Pappas: For me the Internet is just yet another way of being rejected by women.
You've Got Mail
They made this change because they were afraid the constitution would be rejected. But now it may be counterproductive: they made the Sunnis so furious that maybe more of them will vote no.
Mahmoud Othman
Because of fear of being rejected or disliked, people turn to anime characters or idols that pose no personal conflict. But there is a danger. ... Otaku who live in the fantasy world of anime often give little thought to how they may look to others.
Rika Kayama
It is a formality that the new application will be rejected as Jason doesn't meet the criteria, so it will go straight to a review panel.
Mike Berry
It appears the Scottish people have rejected separatism this evening. There was a fundamental choice -- an expensive and messy divorce or the positive policies of Labour.
Douglas Alexander
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
Marquis de Vauvenargues
All the coaches said he had talent. It's hard to see your kid get rejected.
Patricia Clark
The court rejected some of the various legal arguments, but not the right to be heard. We never had that chance and now we will.
Al Gerhardstein
After that he was largely excluded by the family and, the evidence suggests, rejected by his mother over the last four years of his life.
John Matthews
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
Omar Bradley
It is a dressing up of a rejected proposal, an aggressive plan for war. It polishes up a resolution rejected by the vast majority of the Security Council.
Naji Sabri
I tried to work with them, but they rejected every idea I came up with.
Delegate David Rudolph
It's kind of weird, because I look at myself as just a normal person. My friends get rejected all the time, so why shouldn't I? I don't think I'm anything special.
Nick Carter
But no one rejected the Russian initiative.
Stanislas De Laboulaye
We're rejected by people, ... Neither race welcomed me. No race will say we're a member of theirs. We're outcast by everybody.
Robin Reid
People in this community rejected that. We don't know why.
Richard Burr
We have a system that if you are accepted you stay and if you are rejected you stay.
Katrine Camilleri
Unfortunately, the school board rejected an opportunity to make the school board look more like its citizenry in the district.
Fred Rooney
Unfortunately, he's a child who felt rejected from the very beginning. I think it's a double rejection for him.
Norman Siegel
We made those communications through the White House counsel's office repeatedly and that request was rejected.
Charles Bakaly
Hopefully, the administration recognized that Congress soundly rejected last year's proposed zero, substituting $1.3 billion in its place. The administration is now expressing some flexibility to negotiate a more realistic budget.
Ross Capon
The opposition should look seriously into reasons that led them to be rejected by the people. To show our good faith in promoting the culture of opposition (politics) in this country, I am going to set up a ministry to look into government and opposition relations.
Jakaya Kikwete
They already made a hostile bid once and our board reviewed it and rejected it.
David Banks
The government has rejected the standard of the best interest of the child as the guiding principle.
Jose Garcia
Salzburg was where he was born and where he was rejected. I don't think he was capable of writing a boring bar of music.
Lorin Maazel
If you look at any six-year period, it's difficult to find one where you're in a down cycle the whole time. We have concerns [about chances for the contract to be rejected] based on feedback we're getting. Those concerns have been expressed to management.
Gregg Overman
We have made a bid for Lee Johnson, but it has been rejected.
Kenny Jackett
The rule of law has yet to be reinstated in the U.S. battle on terror. The problem started when the (Bush) administration rejected the Geneva Conventions, which are intended to apply to every armed conflict in the world.
Barbara Olshansky
We did make an offer. It's a joke. I think it's sort of funny. ... He certainly isn't the first player that rejected one of our offers, and I know that he won't be the last. That's his prerogative. That's part of the business. That's free agency. We wish him the best.
Jay Zygmunt
Of those signatures, only 397 were judged to be qualified electors. Of the 201 invalid signatures, 177 were not registered, five were illegible, two were rejected after signature comparison, one was a duplicate, one was not registered to vote on the date of signing, one had no date provided and 14 lived outside of the jurisdiction.
Laura Dean
A lot of commercials that have been rejected are really entertaining.
David Carson
I am told that he rejected the request ... because of the sensitivity of the material for a political reason.
Matthew Aid
Last year nudity was new but this year there was nothing new to it so audiences rejected sleaze.
Taran Adarsh
He effectively rejected the opinion of the Supreme Court.
David Wilder
You should expect that at some time you're going to have a credit card rejected.
Steve Rhode
Rejected both the appropriateness of an apology and of monetary redress.
John J. Mccloy
The town's suggestions have been rejected.
Joseph Davis
Sweet beast, I have gone prowling,a proud rejected manwho lived along the edgescatch as catch can;in darkness and in hedgesI sang my sour toneand all my love was howlingconspicuously alone.
William Dewitt Snodgrass
It is the first time in my experience that major changes that were rejected during preliminary considerations have been made to such a high-profile document without prior discussion by the Cabinet and coordination with the main ministers.
Alexei Kudrin
The song was unreleased -- rejected. There should be a voice for music that doesn't get heard.
Matt Jordan
In one season, the number of cartons rejected for export because of fruit fly damage has halved from 8% to 4%, the lowest it has ever been.
Brian Barnes
We offered it, but they rejected it, ... They have no use for it.
Tom Leighton
There are not very many options available. If the idea of funding the relocation of a government agency from the budget is rejected, there will be another option left, that of drawing investors' money.
Vladimir Kozhin
A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.
Frank Barnaby
Chris has already been rejected by Democrats in Houston. State Democratic leaders are rejecting him by looking for someone else to run.
Luis Saenz
Whether the proposed constitution is approved or rejected . . . it is a process and a text largely crafted and imposed by U.S. occupation authorities and their Iraqi dependents, and thus lacking in legal or political legitimacy.
Phyllis Bennis
We are talking about political fraud and blatant stealing of votes. This is an offer which must be rejected.
Vojislav Kostunica
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.
Frank Harris
When the United States rejected this offer, the advocates of nuclear weapons in New Delhi steadily gained ground, and in 1998 India formally demonstrated its ability to deploy nuclear weapons.
Selig Harrison
We are very gratified that the judge rejected each and every claim against the enforcement of our pit bull ordinance.
Charlie Richardson
We have now received a couple of offers and the indications are another may follow. These have not been accepted or rejected at this stage.
Rupert Lowe
Those who rejected the bid from Philip Green have been vindicated. Despite very tough retail conditions, the management are delivering.
David Cummings
That album was just rejected outright by country radio. It was like an open revolt against one of country's biggest superstars.
Chris Willman
The governor has never rejected an idea based on who it came from. She is always open to ideas.
Rich Harris
No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.
Archibald Alexander
Hill hasn't made any kind of a showing. What they've come up with has been rejected soundly every place it's been used.
Carolyn Snurkowski
I haven't seen an offer, but I think I can safely predict it will be rejected.
Michael Carey
We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.
Donald Mcdonald
This last comment is crucial, especially when the U.S. Congress last night rejected restrictions on tax cuts and spending, and raised the federal debt limit by $800 billion, to $8.18 trillion.
Ashraf Laidi
They have consistently attended the meetings and when there has been discussion about alternates, they've rejected them. They volunteered for the job and are serious about the role they play.
Eric Hecox
We are very pleased that, after six months of Toshiba's efforts to challenge the jury verdict, the Court has rejected those challenges and entered judgment confirming that verdict in every respect.
Eric Whitaker
The point of an election is to evaluate someone's performance — my performance as appointments chair, for example, to which the database that I developed is substantially connected. My performance as appointments chair was rejected by the student body.
Ethan Ucker
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