E.L. James Quotes
The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a stray gleam of sunshine finds its way down to the roots of the trees.
Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things.
Where are your combing seas, your blue water, your rollers, your breakers, your whales, or your waterspouts, and your endless motion, in this bit of a forest, child?
Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable.
A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of Great Britain, as connected with the shores of the opposite continent.
Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.
At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution.
When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.
There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.
Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.
New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United States.
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.
Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.
Humor is a bit like Mary Poppins' sugar-it helps the medicine go down. A little bit of humor allows people to think about very difficult subjects.
A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think they can always make something new of their lives.
We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American bargain should work
Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.
No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.
The whole point of constitutional democracy is the peaceful transfer of power; of Al Gore passing the baton to George W. Bush, even though that election was very suspiciously called.
It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially the same amount of money on defense, in real terms, every single year.
Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.
In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.
For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.
I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value and am being 'sarcastic.
Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.
I am about as pro-Google a person as you're going to find in the media. I've had friends at all levels of the company since its founding, and still do now.
I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can be hacked from afar.
I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix.' I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone.
It seems to be the case that for the people who actually are all in with Donald Trump - which is who knows: 35, 38, 40 per cent of the electorate - apparently nothing can dissuade them.
I don't think anybody who is already with Donald Trump is going to be peeled off by his not knowing about NATO or why Japan does not have nuclear weapons, or things of that sort.
I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.
A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.
I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon.
Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.
There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the thing you must try to write, when you do so, is a real sonnet, and not a practice sonnet.
Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15.
At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.
Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since.
The composer does not want the self-sufficiency of a richly complex text: he or she wants to feel that the text is something in need of musical setting.