E.L. James Quotes

In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.

You're the predator right up until you're prey.

A light snow, a snow so faint and small-bodied that it seems nothing more than a manifestation of the cold.

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything.

One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change.

In 1957, I decided: write or perish.

Events need their invitation, dissolutions their start.

Souness gave Fleck a second chance and he grabbed it with both feet.

I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem

I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony.

What law enforcement agencies and insurers do not understand is that driving while high is actually a safe activity.

It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles.

A sound so fine, there 's nothing lives 'Twixt it and silence.

Extremes are ever neighbors; 'tis a step from one to the other.

The herald, earth-accredited, of heaven,--which when men hear, they think upon heaven's king, and run the items over of the account to which he is sure to call them.

Wedlock joins nothing, if it joins not hearts.

Africans are taught to be beggars and not to be independent.

There is no armour against fate.

When our souls shall leave this dwelling, the glory of one fair and virtuous action is above all the 'scutcheons on our tomb, or silken banners over us.

Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.

Belief was immune to logic; it operated by its own laws.

If you've got to work for the rest of your life, you'd better do something you'll enjoy.

You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.

Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.

You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that.

The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.

The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other.

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.

If a western is a good western, it gives you a sense of that world and some of the qualities those men had - their comradeship, loyalty, and physical courage.

I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.

It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets are those that are animated by both fear and greed at the same time.

Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.

Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy.

Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.

Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.

Corporations hope that the right concept will turn things around overnight. This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for a few days and you'll be thin for life.

A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.

Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative.

Any Congressional agreement of an arbitrary time table to bring our troops home before we have accomplished our mission is unacceptable and could potentially increase the risk to our soldiers.

Everyone agrees that our ultimate goal is to establish a free, open and democratic Iraqi government and bring our men and women in uniform home as soon as possible.

Looking long term, a stronger, wealthier, and more stable Central America next door benefits the United States' own safety, security, and economy.

The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world.

Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.

I feel like if you let someone else create your vision, then it's not true to your band. No one can ever do as good as you want, or as good as you can yourself.

Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.

The SECRET to Love is in OPENING up your Heart

All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.