E.L. James Quotes

He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows.

I am aware that the battle I am fighting is a petty one, but I am also aware that in order to win that which is great, you must first win that which is small.

...we got this gift of life and we got it one time and we gonna get hurt in it and be hurt going through it and the only thing that'll make that hurt better or hurt less is love.

For the worst things of our lives, it is sometimes the best way, to never speak of them again.

Sometimes I really want to believe in God. I really admire, in a lot of ways, people who have faith. I think it must be a beautiful thing to believe.

Love only brought me lonliness and horror.

I feel strong. Not strong enough to face myself, but strong enough to keep going.

If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.

Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.

I am not now, nor I have ever been, relevant.

By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.

Putting somebody else's pants on and pretending to be somebody else is occasionally, as you grow older, horrifying.

What they say about TV shows is true. You're really a family. You laugh, you fight, you get close, you know? Movies are shorter. They're over quicker. You don't form the same bonds.

You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

I felt like my bubble gum card collection had come to life.

Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president.

The recollection of one upward hour Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer The darkness of despondency, than years Of gayety and pleasure.

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.

A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war.

Any time you are in the content creation business, you have to leverage that content in as many ways as possible. DVD is one valuable secondary growth channel for HBO. Maybe the Internet is next.

Librarians are not just gatekeepers to knowledge, they are what the American Indians used to call their special sages who preserved the oral legends of a tribe: dream keepers.

As you get more global warming, you should see an increase in the extremes of the hydrological cycle - droughts and floods and heavy precipitation.

The question is not whether to close the parks, but how to accomplish this goal.

Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions.

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but if someone tries to take them from us, we defend them with almost an illicit passion.

I'm so much more than just Angelina [Jolie's] brother. I'm also Jon Voight's son and Billy Bob Thorton's brother-in-law.

Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.

Follow the lead of your symptoms, for there’s usually a myth in the mess, and a mess is an expression of soul.

We dull our lives by the way we conceive them.

Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.

Fear is a huge thing for older people.

What I try to point out is the role an ordinary person can have in seeing the child's destiny. You have to have a feeling for the child.

By setting up a universe which tends to hold everything we do, see, and say in the sway of its cosmos, an archetype is best comparable with a God

I'm not sure (whether Demetriou did anything wrong). I wouldn't have thought so ... but I'm not the ACC (Australian Crime Commission), I'm not ASADA. I'm a football coach trying to coach a game.

There is some debate in professional circles about whether the so-called “midlife crisis” exists.

Human life is difficult. But as this life is coming to an end, I consider myself lucky to have lived it.

I am about to stop being a get-along kind of guy and turn into somebody who makes a difference.

Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say.

A day can start out ordinary and end up being in the top ten. —Joe Bunch

Authority is always built on service and sacrifice.

The settled man can cope with love and hate from others, but never with their indifference.

It is wonderful how cheered a pilot becomes after he shoots down his first machine; his morale increases by at least 100 percent.

Saying a person's name frequently and with ease will cause them to fall in love with you. This is one of the top techniques to learn on how to start a conversation with your crush.

Landscape is the creation of the one God - his sensuous image and revelation, through the investigation of which, by science or its representation by art, men's hearts are lifted toward him.

The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.

The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train.

Mr. Chairman, I think the record should show that for the first time since McKinley, we have a Republican president worth shooting, and I think that's a good sign.

The question is, when does the therapeutic community end and the reality kick back in Then, what do you do with them