Jojo Moyes Quotes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Jojo Moyes

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• We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Animal
  • Rain

• I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Me
  • Always
  • Rejection

• The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Rain
  • Short
  • Forest

• You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • People
  • Know
  • Constitution

• I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Boy
  • Social
  • Novel

• I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • People
  • Life
  • Struggle

• I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Up
  • Poetry
  • Rain

• I still get rejections - frequently - and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Myself
  • Goal
  • Succeed

• I go running three times a week - outside in the park, come rain or shine, and I hate every moment of it. I hate everything about it. But I know it's important for health reasons and the reason why I run, in particular, is because my stage work is like cardiovascular work so I don't want to lose my breath on stage.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Work
  • Important
  • Why

• If we see a sad rain, it doesn't mean the rain is sad, but it means we see it. That's an easily dismissible kind of projection. But what I'm struggling to say, is that we take that rain in through our own hearts and emotions and senses and skin, and all those filters have an impact.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Sad
  • Rain
  • Impact

• Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Pretty
  • Living
  • Rejection

• One thing I love about being back is English rain. Looking out of the window now, it's raining, and the sky is dark; I love it. To me, those are reassuringly English things. I love it when it rains.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Love
  • Dark
  • English

• To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as trying to grab a taxi while standing out in front of Saks Fifth Avenue in the freezing rain on the last shopping day before Christmas.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Trying
  • Day
  • Golf

• People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Dog
  • Rain

• Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Unknown
  • Rejection

• In college, I had a crush on one of my professors. I used to bat my eyelashes and coo at him. He didn't respond at all, which made me like him even more.

  

  Navi Rawat
  • Me
  • College
  • Crush

• People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Up
  • Death

• Can I take a rain check? Weekends are busy for me." He shrugged, his perma smile back in all its dimpled glory. "You'd probably figure out a way to nearly get killed, anyway.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Rain
  • Glory
  • Weekend

• Consequently, the value and importance of the monarchic idea cannot reside in the person of the monarch himself except if Heaven decides to lay the crown on the brow of the heroic genius like Frederick the Great or a wise character like William I.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Character
  • Genius
  • Monarch

• I begin with movement... I believe that all human visual experiences are born from movement..

  

  Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • I Believe
  • Movement
  • Human Experiences

• We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.

  

  Origen
  • Good
  • Believe
  • True

• Lucifer represents life, though, progress, civilization, liberty, independence. Lucifer is the Logos, the Serpent, the Savior.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Life
  • Progress

• Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

  

  Jojo Moyes
  • Rain
  • Rejection
  • Crush