E.L. James Quotes
A politician is required to listen to humbug, talk humbug, condone humbug. The most we can hope for is that we don't actually believe it.
The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.
I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.
We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us.
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems.
It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.
Democrats and Republicans were essentially the same party with different faces and that was why, no matter how many promises each leader made, significant change rarely transpired.
Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.
Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.
God has called us to be His representatives in our nation and in our world. Select candidates who represent your views and work for their election.
I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.
I've always wanted to be in musicals, not just in film, but on stage. I think it's a wonderful medium.
If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.
Hands are our earliest tools. Cooking starts with the hands which are so sensitive that when they touch something they transmit messages to your brain about texture and temperature.
I'm not waiting, but I'm willing if you called me up. If you ever wanna be in love, I'll come around
The sheer number of government employees and welfare recipients effectively transforms the purpose of government from maintaining order to confiscating as much as possible from vulnerable taxpayers.
The test of character is not persistence when you expect a light at the end of the tunnel. The true test is performance and persistence when you see no light coming.
The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.
Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy.
The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.
Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something, and that something is to a large extent outside the control of our conscious minds.
Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.
The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.
If you really want to do something, no one can stop you. But if you really don’t want to do something, no one can help you
