E.L. James Quotes

Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.

O thou, whose days are yet all spring, Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving; Experience is a dumb, dead thing; The victory's in believing.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.

God is not dumb, that he should speak no more; If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.

May is a pious fraud of the almanac.

It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.

Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.

Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.

It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.

A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet sake and charity.

O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.

This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.

The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human, It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.

The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.

Humbleness is always grace; always dignity

The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.

These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.

Ez fer war, I call it murder,- There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that. . . . . . An' you 've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.

The victory's in believing.

Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.

Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men.

Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run.

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change.

Sorrow is the great idealizer.

Communism means barbarism.

Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. There is so brave a simplicity in her that she can no more be made ridiculous than an oak or a pine.

In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.

There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual

The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.

Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood.

The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars.

Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.

I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him.