E.L. James Quotes

Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.

But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success.

You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

Honestly if men are given a choice, we'll choose everything.

There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility.

I never really set out to do anything in the charts with music. It came as a total surprise that I did, and it's fun.

Don't sleep through your dreams.

Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself.

It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry innerverse.

Things take a long time, but when it's right things move fast.

And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the Army, so he could help me in that direction.

Being a hero doesn't mean you succeed in saving the day. It just means you tried.

In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

I am so happy to see more and more people in this country are becoming addicted to cheese.

If you have never tasted a braised vegetable, you'll find it is a revelation.

Be simple. Be honest. Don't overcook and don't undercook, but it's better to undercook than overcook.

I spent two years playing open mic nights in Brighton, and I heard more and more people saying, You should give it a go in London.

The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.

You talk to your enemies, not just your friends.

The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.

It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction.

The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.

The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it.

On the distinctive principles of the Government ... of the U. States, the best guides are to be found in ... The Declaration of Independence, as the fundamental Act of Union of these States.

I consider the difference between a system founded on the legislatures only, and one founded on the people, to be the true difference between a league or treaty and a constitution.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.

They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.

Torrents of blood have been spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious discord, by proscribing all differences in religious opinions.

America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.

Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.

If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.

It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.

I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.

If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems should have been written differently?

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment.

We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.

The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.

The President is responsible to the public for the conduct of the person he has nominated and appointed.

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.

Those who remember only that the Roosevelts served hot dogs to the royals will be fascinated by this well-researched account of an historic and ennobling relationship - a great story!

Church was never intended to be a place where we serve God to the exclusion of meeting with Him.

This fight is not going to be over in 10 minutes or 10 weeks; there's no quick solution. If you think it's taking too long, remember, God is with you.