E.L. James Quotes

A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.

God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves.

They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.

The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes.

I've spent my life trying to be better than I was, and I am a brother to all who share the same aspiration.

Every animal that walks the earth, or swims, or flies is precious beyond description, something so rare and wonderful that it equals the stars or the ocean or the mind of man.

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis.

As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned a lot about my trade.

If everything in the past has value, then there’s no reason for regret, ever.

I suspect the fault...is in me: that I hate any job on earth, as a job and a hindrance and a semi-suicide.

The typical mass murderer is extraordinarily ordinary.

I do not care about the greatest good for the greatest number . . . Most people are poop-heads I do not care about them at all.

I'm not much of a multitasker, and when I'm in productive mode, organizational things suffer.

The only way to make real wealth is to get rid of your salary. In a salary, by definition, you are creating wealth for others, and you are creating a chain and handcuffs for yourself.

To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.

As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our control.

Poetry isn't an efficient tool for preserving experience, any more than it's an efficient mode of communication, but who says that it should be efficient?

Memorizing the work of others definitely made me a better writer.

I've done a number of films that no one has ever seen, and that's probably a good thing.

I like pressure. Pressure is good.

There's nothing terribly wrong with The November Man in a serviceable late-night cable TV sort of way but neither is there anything terribly right about it. It's unnecessary and derivative.

Maybe I should try singing like a man.

There's a cyclical nature to what people like in the world. Through time, things come around again.

What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he disturbed and put out of order.

One must be strict even in little things.

But the question is, whether the animals who endure such sufferings of various kinds for the service and entertainment of man, would accept existence upon the terms on which they have it.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise.

The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.

Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.

Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.

For the average person walking down a dark street late at night, a promise from a politician is worth far less than a .38 Special.

We are asking the wrong question. The issue is not who should be trusted with all the power of the Presidency. Instead, we must ask how much power any candidate can be trusted with.

Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time.

But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.

We've also had comments in relation to Donald Trump's comments in respect of investment in Scotland- the UK government has never given Mr Trump awards or appointments.

Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.

Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances...If Churchill had had a speech write in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today.

Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.

Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.

Leaders who led their organizations quietly and humbly, were much more effective than flashy, charismatic high profile leaders.

You can't manufacture passion or "motivate" people to feel passionate. You can only discover what ignites your passion and the passions of those around you.

Start a 'Stop Doing' list. I'll leave it as an existential dilemma on whether to put that task on your To Do list

Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.

Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.

I never did anything else. In college I switched majors every two weeks, and acting was the only thing that held my interest.

Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying.