E.L. James Quotes

People always want reasons for things ... but sometimes there are no reasons.

You can drive at 16, go to war at 18, drink at 21, and retire at 65. So who can say what age you have to be to find your true love?

You cannot be too active as regards your own efforts; you cannot be too dependent as regards Divine grace. Do every thing as if God did nothing; depend upon God as if He did everything.

If only the bird with the loveliest song sang, the forest would be a lonely place.

A Mocking Bird regularly resorts to the south angle of a chimney top and salutes us with sweetest notes from the rising of the moon until about midnight.

In this fall - this is very tough - in this fall I'm going to take my talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat.

Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, "Why am I doing this?" It comes down to passion.

But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.

We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.

Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.

Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.

American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism.

She's the kind you don't take home to mother.

My teacher said I would either be a hoodlum, or a great entertainer.

I just live one day at a time.

I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about.

What holds attention determines action.

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.

If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.

Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts.

Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.

The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.

Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.

If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own.

Thank God for the journey.

I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.

Time will take your money, but money won't buy time.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.

...Dreams come to tell us something about our lives that we are missing.

We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Don't get your panties in such a twist... and give me back mine.

The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace.

Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.

...while everyone's focusing on keeping the boss happy, who's focusing on keeping the customer happy?