E.L. James Quotes
The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.
It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite. The pull was unendurable. The pain unendurable.
There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.
They would have been very let down if they had to leave the theater and he had missed. He would feel badly. Everyone would feel badly. But he never let them down.
However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate.
Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, Im very fortunate.
Learn to slow down and perceive the mysterious events and opportunities that happen in life... if we look closely we see they... bring us just the right information at just the right time.
The worst thing that can be done to children is to drain their energy while correcting them.
You should never take responsibility for more children than you can give attention to.
Our children take our level of vibration and raise it even higher. This is how we, as humans, continue evolution.
Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what is doing us in.
Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.
My father is Jaime Rodriguez from San Antonio, Texas, and I've got one whole half of my family that's Mexican through and through.
Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.
Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted on as of the essence of human experience.
Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake; And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.
Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.
Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.
Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.
Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge.
What men call luck Is the prerogative of valiant souls, The fealty life pays its rightful kings.
Not as all other women are Is she that to my soul is dear; Her glorious fancies come from far, Beneath the silver evening star, And yet her heart is ever near.
Faith in God, faith in man, faith in work: this is the short formula in which we may sum up the teachings of the founders of New England,--a creed ample enough for this life and the next.
It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.