E.L. James Quotes

I don't know if any of us are mature enough to handle the brutal honesty of what's inside other people's heads.

Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.

The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.

I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find.

Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance.

It's not appeasement to talk to your enemies.

It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

There is always a risk to follow your bliss, a price to pursue your passion.

The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.

There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage...Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.

Equal laws protecting equal rights…the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.

Competing loves are detected in the gap between saying and doing.

The Christian way is a life of faith. In order to hold on to the promises of God, you've got to believe them and live by them.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer.

Our silence is deafening and deadly.

If you have to do it, you can do it.

What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.

People build up a life, it becomes unsatisfactory, and they want to figure out how to change it like an outfit on a doll. But you can’t change life from the outside. We all know this now.

L]iberalism holds that the resources (divine and human) that are available for the achievement of meaningful change justify an attitude of ultimate optimism

An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.

As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.

God bless the Reference Librarians

The air smelled like Bayou Teche when it's spring and the fish are spawning among the water hyacinths and the frogs are throbbing in the cattails and the flooded cypress.

A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land.

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

Where there is no alternative there is no problem.

So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout the book of Doublends Jined.

...rapid motion through space elates one.

The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.

We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh

Don't be interesting - be interested.

I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses

The critical question is not whether you'll have luck, but what you do with the luck that you get.

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own.

Most people will look back and realize they did not have a great life because it's just so easy to settle for a good life.

There's many a true word spoken in jest.

I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil.

If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry.

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

If you sit around and wring your hands as they're all doing now until something happens to a major American city, then it is too late.

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable.

It is that, but really, it's about how we don't recognise the little things in life, or appreciate the little things in life like belonging. A sense of belonging is a big thing today.