E.L. James Quotes

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.

The song is about love, life, fear and hope... and more than anything, you... and me...

We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented.

There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free fall forever inside their head. It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry innerverse.

I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and he thought he was winning!

If you're an attractive guy, everyone thinks you're successful just because of the way you look.

Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.

Glacial pace is actually an incorrect concept. The glaciers move a lot faster and they react a lot faster than people imagine.

You can't divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.

The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

There is no virtue in denying the law of gravity, and there should be no virtue in denying the limitations of government. ... The more we glorify government, the more liberties we will lose.

A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.

There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency.

The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate.

If this world could only grasp the power of forgiveness. Being able to forgive someone breaks the cycle of bitterness and vengeance

A good government implies two things: first, fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained.

Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.

The number of individuals employed under the Constitution of the United States will be much smaller than the number employed under the particular States.

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

Consciousness is the glory of creation.

An intellectual carrot - the mind boggles.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.

Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.

Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

Repentance is the key that unlocks the door to all that God has for us, but it is not easy.

Only when we have done all we knew to do can we wait by faith for God to do what only He can do.

I don't know karate, but I know ka-razy!

I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.

I had to tell about my colonic, which expresses the fact why I'm so neat today as opposed to a few years ago. I never knew that the weight made that much difference.

The best way I have ever found to fill that hole is not to seek external motivations to fill the emptiness, but to ignite the internal fire that will never go out. To light up my own inner sky.

We can never be like it was at Penn State with Joe Paterno. That was an anomaly in an of itself.

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

I started Michael years ago. I saw him in Gary, Indiana, and we'd have him on the talent shows. He kind of emulated me, and did the best he could.

I find that many entrepreneurs are trying to do everything when it would be cheaper and more time-efficient to delegate, even if there are monetary costs associated with that.

In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.

Only worry about your own happiness, which doesn’t have to be limited by anyone else’s stupidity unless you allow it to be.

Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.

There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.

Oh, the cleverness of me!