E.L. James Quotes

Observe the masses and do the opposite

Americans threw away their communities in order to save a few dollars on hair dryers and plastic food storage tubs, never stopping to reflect on what they were destroying.

Showing up every day isn't enough. There are a lot of guys who show up every day who shouldn't have showed up at all.

Actors have bodyguards and entourages not because anybody wants to hurt them - who would want to hurt an actor? - but because they want to get recognized. God forbid someone doesn't recognize them.

To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.

Each of us needs an adequate biography: How do I put together into a coherent image the pieces of my life? How do I find the basic plot of my story?

Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. For everyone.

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

Poverty, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but also of opportunity, empowerment and, most important, dignity.

Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning. It means you're afraid of the other side of the coin -- to love and be loved.

I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.

I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ.

There are no office hours for leaders.

A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness.

I'm a 'bleeding-heart liberal,' one of those card-carrying Democrats that Rush Limbaugh thinks is a communist. And I'm proud of it.

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.

Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.

I sing the songs that people need to hear.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Every great business is built on friendship.

The disciplined are free.

I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books.

Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience.

We must come to terms with our responsibility to be the gatekeepers to end childhood hunger. Our love for life can propel us to share and provide a secure future for the children of our country.

What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver.

I don't support violence, period.

Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them

Sometimes you gotta do things that you don't really want to do. But you don't do them for money.

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.

The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.

Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.

Struggle is the architect of the soul.

We Americans are living a lifestyle of exhaustion. We don't have time for ourselves, much less for each other and our children.

Touching Hearts, Changing Lives.

My dad and I hunted and fished together. How could I get angry at this man who took the time to be with me?

Conceit is a weird disease - it makes everybody sick except the guy who has it.

When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.

May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding.

Fight with a happy heart and strong spirit.

The reality is that we do not have an air traffic control system that is smart enough and technologically capable enough to be able to handle that kind of demand.