E.L. James Quotes

I don't know enough about the legislation , but I think the more information you can put in the hands of the people who are vetting, people who are going to be near children, the better.

I care a lot about privacy. I also care an awful lot about public safety. There continues to be a huge collision between those two things we care about.

If conduct is intentional, it could subject some of the criminal liability.

Our need for public safety and our need for privacy are crashing into each other and we've got to sort that out.

When politics is elevated over business, economic disaster follows.

There is a reason and not a reason for everything.

That which you worry about most in life is seldom bad, and that likely applies to dying.

The higher the wages the fewer the jobs; the lower the wages the more the jobs.

Why is it so hard to see that when America had high savings, low taxes and minimal government, the economy grew like a week, and today when we have just the opposite, the economy is shrinking.?

It's not up to God for us to use the gift of faith.

We are far too critical of the fabulous system of plenty that has brought us the highest living standards on earth. The liberals have done a good job of undermining faith in the market system.

Employers know the nature of people best.

The soul is that part of you in harmony with God.

It's nearly impossible for a criminal to come from a good mother.

Gasahol is socialism's fuel.

The foremost corporate responsibility is to serve others so well you produce a profit.

Government regulators are another name for police.

Private charity can apply 'tough love' but government charity can't.

Better to build orphanages than prisons.

The economy that leads the world will be the one with the most millionaires and billionaires.

In any given age it is only a few extremists who are right.

Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class.

Nothing's worse than a business person who sells out to the left, if you're a capitalist, stand up and be counted.

Investors believe in the best possible outcome.

The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.

Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers.

With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment.

Those who help the poor the most also hurt them the most.

The longer people receive economic assistance, the worse their social condition and behavior.

People want government to solve problems, but government is often the cause of the problem.

It's not capitalism that's failing the U.S. but socialism.

Most everything government does is worse than useless.

The fundamental laws of human nature are overlooked by social planners.

The government endangers us with our own money.

When people criticize the free market, they are usually complaining about what happens when you intervene in the free market.

The rate of inflation can't be judged accurately by a few items the government arbitrarily chooses to measure.

The more welfare, the more crime.

The only time you can have maximum economic progress is when social programs don't exist.

The more successful an organization becomes, the more difficult it is to deal with.

The reason our economic crisis has been forestalled is the reason there will be an economic crisis.

The eleventh commandment: Thou shalt be tolerant of all paths that lead to God.

Government is no more than taxpayers hiring the most inefficient organization to do the job.

Any nation that allows the government to dominate its monetary and economic policies will ultimately suffer grave consequences.

The more noteworthy a person's achievements, the more government agents are attracted to investigating that person.

Theater is so wonderful and brilliant but it lasts very much in the moment. It's there and then it's gone.

There's always this kind of odd idea that people would say, "Oh, do you know the Queen?" But really people are much smarter than that.

Since I left Chicago, I'm a lone wolf. I put on the record player and sit and try to play on the guitar. I've got five guitars here and can't play them, but I'm always whompin' around.

As a human sentiment, it's touching to behold.

Jamie' is what my mother gave me, and that takes the onus off of being big. Somebody thinks, 'Oh, Jamie - how threatening can he be?

All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.