E.L. James Quotes

When it's personal and painful, humble yourself.

Whatever the job is, we can do it. Thats why the nation has a Marine Corps.

Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.

People are not your most important asset....the right people are.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

How many McDonald's gift certificates would it take to sway a lot of Americans to pledge to never publicly criticize the U.S, President?

Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

I'm a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top - God and Jack The Rapper.

The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes.

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

My personal philosophy would be don't whine, don't let opportunities pass you by, be willing to work hard, and remember that you don't know as much as you think you do, ever

There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.

Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.

The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream … Hang in there.

I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

Money could never have originated as paper.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.

For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.

My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.

Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.

Become a beacon of enhancement, and then, when the night is gray, all of the boats will move towards you, bringing their bountiful riches.

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.

Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.

I'm sick of carrying guns and beating up women.

Don't do something just for the money. Money is a side effect of persistence. You persist in things you are interested in. Explore your interests. Then persist. Then enjoy all the side effects.

A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.

Yes, there's genetics. Yes, there are chromosomes. Yes, there's biology. Yes, there are environment, sociology, parenting, economics, class, and all of that. But there is something else, as well.

American labor may now look to the future with confidence.

An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy.

When I was 15 or 16 - I slept really well then. Now I sleep on a bed of anxiety-tipped nails.

Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand, and villainy on the other, as this writ of assistance is.

I am in a very peculiar business: I travel all over the world telling people what they should already know.

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train.

The green grass floweth like a stream Into the oceans's blue.

So we're all right, an' I, for one, Don't think our cause'll lose in vally By rammin' Scriptur' in our gun, An' gittin' Natur' for an ally.

The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.

Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.

Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.

Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.

O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes.