E.L. James Quotes

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

Christ, in the parable of the vine dressers, has taught us a sublime lesson of justice, by showing that to the things which are not our own, we can have no just claim.

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who are not, so long he is the repository of power.

A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.

Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

On the human imagination events produce the effects of time.

Each and every human being on Earth has both the responsibility and the privilege of viewing themselves as Divine beings with the power to bring about peace.

This is why I am calling you to See as God Sees every moment, for it is the only way to release the world you thought was there, in favor of a world that reflects who you really are.

Nonviolence is the answer for the questions of our time. Love will conquer evil every time.

The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beauty or one to four stars for a movie's appeal.

Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.

Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other.

The things which cannot be adequately represented by words are more important than those which can.

By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.

It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery.

I love collaboration of all kinds, and I love the way that collaboration pulls me into directions I wouldn't go in if I was working on my own.

He was so. So dirty, and just moving in front of me, and cute. I was in love with him, especially because he was talking to me.

I become kind of obsessive about research.

I actually don't smoke weed, but I've played a lot of stoners - especially with Seth Rogen.

I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through a writer.

I have high aspirations. I want to be an architect.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

When we trust our brother, whom we have seen, we are learning to trust God, whom we have not seen.

Whenever we do what we can, we immediately can do more.

I've been alone my whole life, I can't do it anymore.

People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics.

There is, though, nothing that prepares us for the worst things in our life. There is nothing you can do to stop the shock, or buffer the pain.

What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.

I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.

There are places from which you cannot return. There is damage that can be irreparable.

The world cannot live at the level of its great men.

I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.

For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion.

The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough.

Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past.

The scapegoat upon whom the sins of the people are periodically laid, may also be a human being.

No organization works if the toilets don't work, but I don't believe that finding solutions to business problems is my job.

I was driven from my position as Interior Secretary, not because of my environmental record, but because of my Christian beliefs. That's the real struggle.

Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.

And for a minute, maybe longer... everything that threatens us, threatens to save us.

Taking drugs to overcome nerves is the thin edge of the wedge going in there.

Yes indeed I have gained a lot out of playing scales and etudes.

Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you.

It is normal to be nervous.

Control of vibrato helps your musical expression.

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.