E.L. James Quotes

Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.

For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.

It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see.

For these are all our children, we will all profit by or pay for whatthey become.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!

Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble stretched above us, longer than the sky.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.

You took the best, so why not take the rest?

An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when the stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger.

You write in order to change the world.

One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.

There was no room in God's army for the coward heart, no crown awaiting him who put mother or father, sister or brother, sweetheart or friend above God's will. Let the church cry amen to this!

The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

Coaching is destined to be the leadership approach of the 21st century.

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show

Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the characters which they perpetuate.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

The divorce between church and state should be absolute.

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

The extreme geniality of San Francisco's economic, intellectual and political climate makes it the most varied and challenging city in the United States.

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print.

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.

This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.

I... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.

My mind is not a bed to be made and remade.

Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied.