E.L. James Quotes

Many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic.

The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death. Why inquire if you already know the answer?

The whole culture is under terrible pressure and fraught with worry. It's hard to get out of that box. That's the dominant situation all over the world.

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault.

It's the only way we can get out of being so human-centered: to remain attached to something other than humans.

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.

Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.

We are human less by virtue of our ideal goals than by the vice of our inferiority.

There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.

The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.

When you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across a landscape.

When it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive.

In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular house, what happened to them there and afterwards, and so on.

It's a very remarkable story." "Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away.

You will have Time, that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.

I am never disappointed in Jobe Watson ... (who) is a man of the highest integrity, highest character and a great person for our footy club ... I have no concern for Jobe.

Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.

Live how you want to live, not being influenced by others around you.

Entrepreneurship is not a civilized joust. It is streetfighting.

As an actor, demonstrating your feelings in front of people is not what you're supposed to be doing. You're supposed to hold your emotions and control them, and not show them all over the place.

Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built in the last 50 years, and most of it is depressing, brutal, ugly, unhealthy, and spiritually degrading.

The industrial age is over. What follows will be life lived on a much smaller and finer scale.

Forget [Le Corbusier ]. Forget Modernism. Forget yesterdays' tomorrow.

The task we face is reorganizing the systems we depend on for daily life in a way that is consistent with the realities coming down at us.

We have to do commerce differently because the WalMart system of big box chain retail will soon die. This means rebuilding local main street economies (networks of local economic interdependency).

I think the deeper truth is that the Kyoto Protocols will not be followed by anyone really and that, in effect, nothing will be done to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse emissions.

The skyscraper - any building over seven stories really - will come to be seen as an experimental building type that doesn't work well in an energy-starved economy.

I believe most of suburbia is unreformable and will not be fixed.

Our building practices for the past century have been plain stupid - especially the glorification of the single-family house in a subdivision, at the expense of all other typologies and arrangements.

We have to grow our food differently because industrial farming will soon end. That means growing more food locally on smaller farms with more human attention.

I believe our techno-zealotry will be moderated by sheer circumstance. We will do what reality compels us to do, not necessarily what our fantasies propose.

The suburban cycle which began a hundred years ago is nearly over. We are in for a period of contraction and economic hardship.

We don't need gold plated highways. We don't need zoning commissions which penalize offices at home and promote car commutes.

Cities like Detroit exist because they occupy important sites. In the case of Detroit, it sits on a river between two great lakes - very important and strategic.

I'm not against Kyoto. I just think it's a fantasy, especially considering China's energy predicament and their coal supplies.

Anything goes and nothing matters.

I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.

My beef with the alt-fuel people is not the renewable or alt-fuel ideas themselves. Sooner or later, there's no question we're going to have to rely on them. For me, it's an issue of scale.

If the Internet exists at all in the future, it will be on a much-reduced scale from what we enjoy today, and all the activities of everyday life are not going to reside on it.

Motion is a great tranquilizer.

Under the current high energy / high entropy regime, sustainable development is a joke.

In the decades to come, the successful places will tend to be the smaller traditional towns and cities with viable farming hinterlands.

The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park, which mutated into the vertical slums of the late 20th century.

The cities of the future will be much smaller than they are today.

It is worth remembering that our cities occupy important sites, and therefore some kind of settlement is liable to be there.

We will have to make new arrangements, or revive bygone ones. We may, for another example, see the return of the boarding house.

I think we'll see a leveling off and then a contraction of population, not a continued upward trend.

Societies get what they deserve, not what they expect.

People don't like railroad tracks near them? We'll see how they feel when the percentage of U.S. citizens who can afford to drive a car goes way down, as it will.

In our current frame of mind, or paradigm, or whatever you want to call it, we like to think that marshalling government policy is the way to get things done.