E.L. James Quotes

I've been knocked down a lot of times.

In England, justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

The Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the far latitudes - Canada, Iceland, Scandinavia, the Arctic Basin.

The dreamers are the saviors of the world.

Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are about to fail.

Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades.

If we only save the finger of one man, that's enough.

Kindness is the velvet of social intercourse.

There is no higher form of artistic expression then film

I feel blessed in the knowledge that I probably belong to the last generation that will remember what we call "traditional America."

Navigation is easy. If it wasn't, they wouldn't be able to teach it to Sailors.

The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.

It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.

What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.

If we have data, let's look at data. If all we have are opinions, let's go with mine.

Birthdays? yes, in a general way; For the most if not for the best of men: You were born (I suppose) on a certain day: So was I: or perhaps in the night: what then?

Resilency, not perfection, is the signature of greatness.

Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific legitimation.

When I die Dublin will be written on my heart.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?

There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!

The mouth can be better engaged than with a cylinder of rank weed.

I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.

First figure out your partners, then figure out what ideas to pursue. The most important thing isn't the market you target, the product you develop or the financing, but the founding team.

But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?

The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived.

Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.

For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would do every thing.

In the particular is contained the universal.

How can you succeed by helping others succeed? We succeed at our very best only when we help others succeed.

In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,--the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.

Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.

The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.

It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan.

War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul.

I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either.

The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a new way of looking at things.

[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.

Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.

We have hit bottom and are on the upswing.

I have to say when we talk about the treatment of these prisoners that I would guess that these prisoners wake up every morning thanking Allah that Saddam Hussein is not in charge of these prisons.

It occurs to me,Jim,that you spend too much time trying to be interesting. Why don't you invest more time being interested?" Collin's advice from John Gardner that he took to heart.

Not all time in life is equal. How many opportunities do you get to talk about what your life is going to add up to with people thinking about the same question?

If I have any claim to originality, I do it by investing my own personality into it, so it's coming from a slightly more sardonic, English point of view.