E.L. James Quotes

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

The right mixture of caring and not caring - I suppose that's what love is.

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

Rap and dance is pretty much what I want to be known for.

Some say vegetarianism is an alternative diet, but it is the original diet, the plan designed by God.

Nothing is quite as intoxicating as the smell of bacon frying in the morning, save perhaps the smell of coffee brewing.

Fondue is not a good date food. You end up with cheese dripping down your face.

This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.

Jesus washing the disciples feet is the most supreme act of humility in all of God’s word.

Humility is losing yourself in the doing of serving.

Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow.

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another.

Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.

Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

How would the US be different today if people coming off the boat were greeted with a welfare check instead of a shovel?

I don't think we are here for anything. We're just products of evolution. You can say, "Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose." But I'm anticipating a good lunch.

Success, in every case, comes from the alchemy of your health, your mind, your positive energy, and the real world situations you persistently improve for yourself.

I suppose it's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us.

If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way.

Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.

We are all failures - at least the best of us are.

Would you like an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?

Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot.

The stock market can be down, but the stock market is not an indication of where people's spirits and enthusiam are, and where their intellectual energy is.

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.

We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry.

Just spunk won't be enough; you've got to have gumption.

Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave.

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.

The poem is a plank laid over the lion's den.

A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again.

Redheaded women buck like goats.

Places remember events.

People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.

Such a display of death - how could it be considered a victory?

I spent my life making fashion an art form.

We who have been ahead in STYLE have usually been also ahead in our thinking.

Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.

Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies.

The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed