E.L. James Quotes

It is a shame that so many leaders spend their time pondering their rights as leaders instead of their awesome responsibilities as leaders.

In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life

Level 5 leaders are a study in duality: modest and willful, humble and fearless.

Faith in the endgame helps you live through the months or years of buildup.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

The American ideal is, after all, that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they are degraded to a secondary position.

We forget that the soul has its own ancestors.

Anything you attend to carefully can bring blessing.

You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.

I associate times with certain music. It still is that for me. It's telling the story of our lives.

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

Great art can only be created out of love.

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.

The blushing cheek speaks modest mind,The lips befitting words most kind,The eye does tempt to love's desire,And seems to, say 'tis "Cupid's fire.

When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve.

The pattern is clear: if we could speed up time, it would seem as if the global economy is crashing against the earth - the Great Collision.

Every debt is ultimately paid, if not by the debtor, then eventually by the creditor.

I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year.

The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.

The bigger the headquarters the more decadent the company.

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

I'm hopeful that we'll be able to study the ocean before we destroy it.

I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim.

Usually, when you go to a movie, your consciousness floats above the film. 3D sucks you in and makes it a visceral experience.

Broken Horses is an artistic triumph. Beautifully written, acted and imaged, this film wraps slowly around you like a king snake and squeezes.

I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married.

In my opinion, Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't qualified to be governor of California.

The only reason I'm an actor is that a lady pulled out of a parking space in front of a producer's office.

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time.

The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns.

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.

Nothing is so weakening as regret.

He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.

I can do small things in a great way.

I've been acting for many years now, and I find there's nothing I enjoy more than making films with my friends and people I like, who also are the funniest people around.

All the wrong people are against it, so it must be right.

I guess it's ironic. I just did the Gucci cologne ad, and I was the cologne thief in junior high.

Sometimes rabbits, like, turn me on. I don't know why.

Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.

In the long run luck is given only to the efficient.

I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

Republicans now have their own network in Fox, so guys who don't like to answer questions, like Trent Lott, have a place to go to hit softballs.