E.L. James Quotes

‎"She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.

I am the best there ever was!

You think the world owes you something, and it just doesn't work that way.

There is luck in chess. My opponent was lucky that he was playing against an idiot.

We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.

For years I have played the twenty-something lover.

As long as I continue to breathe, as long as there's injustice in this world, I will use the voice that God has given me to speak against it.

When you say, I don't know exactly what God is doing, but I know he's in control that's evidence you're trusting Him.

I will not fail: God is always victorious.

Humility is a do thing, not a feel thing. Humility is an action, not a style.

I've learned to be careful of becoming a critic. Criticism really sours your heart.

A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

All power in human hands is liable to be abused.

In framing a system, which we wish to last for ages, we should not lose sight of the changes which ages will produce.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

That is not a just government where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions, and monopolies deny to part of its citizens that free use of their faculties, and free choice of their occupations.

People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit.

The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.

[I]t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government.

[Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right.

Let the influx of money be ever so great, if there be no confidence, property will sink in value... The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of everything.

We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society, and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance.

The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective

I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic.

The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion.

The Federal Constitution forms a happy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local and particular, to the state legislatures.

A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.

Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have common motive to invade the rights of other citizens.

The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.

It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back.

I also think swimmers are pretty fashion conscious and mos aren't always the best accessory to be rocking. Haha.

Spaying is a compromise in terms of reverence for life, but perhaps a necessary one in a society which kills millions of dogs and cats a year in "animal shelters".

The reason of the close concurrence between the individuals progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.

I was uncomfortable with smoking too much because a lot of young kids watch and I didn't want to make that cool.

All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.

One thing I love is to do childrens hospital visits.

Both singing and acting are so rewarding that I couldn't pick between the two.

I enjoy running, especially in a new city, so when Im on tour thats always a good option.

There is no corporation in the world that would, in a competitive environment, try and concentrate all decisions at the corporate level.

I think the core problem is much closer to recognizing where force is of value, where it is useful, and to distinguish that from situations in which war is not useful or is indeed counterproductive.

As far as I can work out, no-one really loses out.

It's nice to be in a movie that hasn't been absolutely slaughtered by the press.

I've been in a few fights and I know what it's like to get punched in the face.

It's quite liberating to have a director stand beside the camera and say: "Do this now, and do that now..." It's also a bit sordid but it liberates an actor, I think.

Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry.

It is hard to find romance in the present because there's nothing left to the imagination.

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

It is the man that makes the motive, and not the motive the man.

Leadership development is about helping people grow, and if I can get people as individuals growing, then I've got a company that grows.