Jojo Moyes Quotes

I try to read writers who are better than me because it inspires me to be better.

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• How can we make sure that Confucianism is to be practiced? One must enforce it with power, and to have power, one must have a strong army.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Power
  • Strong
  • Army

• I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Want
  • Know
  • Everything

• Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Up
  • Good
  • Movie

• I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Food
  • Amazing
  • Follow

• The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • Happiness

• I burn very easily, so if I forget sunscreen, I will be a tomato by the end of the day. I'm very big on sunscreen and hats. I grew up in Florida, and I love the beach, and I think it's healthy to get a little bit of color.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Love
  • Think
  • End

• You'll be offered the 'lead' in this new hot film with such-and-such A-list director, 'a fabulous part' - a fabulous part? A fabulous part is a character with a soul, who starts here and goes to there, you know? There aren't many of those.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Character
  • Soul
  • Know

• I don't wear bright orange clothes or leopard skin boots, but it was really good fun to play someone that does and have an excuse too!

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Boots

• I'm sorry, but Juicy Couture tracksuits and Ugg boots don't move me in any way, shape or form. I refuse to wear them. Modern fashion doesn't appeal to me; the 1950s were better in every way, don't you think?

  

  Imelda May
  • Fashion
  • Better
  • Sorry

• You cannot make an aircraft without forged components.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • You
  • Make
  • Without

• I had expected that at some point during the first draft a light would go on, and I would understand, finally, how to write a book. This never happened. The process was akin to blindly walking in the dark, feeling my way only by touch, and only recognising dead ends when I smacked into them.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Book
  • Feeling
  • Light

• It feels great to win and I can't be more thankful to the Lord for walking me through every step. God was and is so faithful every time.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Time
  • Great
  • God

• A lot of the lessons that are taught in football will promote success in anything you get into after football; for me, it just happens to be music. Being disciplined. Good character. Trying to do the right thing, and working hard.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Music
  • Trying

• Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Nature

• Calm was the day, and through the trembling air Sweet-breathing Zephyrus did softly play- A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Air
  • Sweet
  • Calm

• At every word a reputation dies.

  

  Alexander Pope

• Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Opportunity
  • Failure
  • Missing

• I had to prepare the mind of the country, and to educate...our party. ... I had to prepare the mind of Parliament and the country on this question of Reform.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Country
  • Mind
  • Question

• I knew that I must paint not what I saw, but only what was in me, in my soul.

  

  Alexej von Jawlensky
  • Soul
  • Paint
  • saw

• Some sciences need mutual support and assistance to develop. The majority of these are physical sciences. Mutual support has almost no use in other disciplines, such as attainment of intuitive knowledge of God or spiritual progress.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Support

• I, personally, have had to rise above my feelings of inferiority to my sister Anjelica, not to mention feeling sorry for myself because I lost my mother so young.

  

  Allegra Huston
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Lost

• Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person.

  

  Louise Slaughter
  • Country
  • May
  • America

• I don't want my president to be a TV star. You don't have to be on television every minute of every day - you're the president, not a rerun of 'Law & Order'. TV stars are too worried bout being popular and too concerned about being renewed.

  

  Bill Maher
  • Law
  • Star
  • Popular

• I try to read writers who are better than me because it inspires me to be better.

  

  Jojo Moyes