E.L. James Quotes

While you can't keep fear from visiting, you can slam the door in its face. With God's promise in your hand, that's exactly what you are able to do.

If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.

[God's] purposes are always accomplished. His enemies are always defeated. His faithful followers are always rewarded. His Son's throne will be established forever.

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.

You must unite your constituents around a common cause and connect with them as human beings.

Do what you say you will do.

A leader with integrity has one self, at home and at work, with family and with colleagues. He or she has a unifying set of values that guide choices of action regardless of the situation.

Leaders must know where they are going if they expect others to willingly join them on the journey.

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.

You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing

A guitar has moonlight in it.

If politicians get money to spend and don't have to be responsible for taxation, then of course that will bias their attitude toward more spending as opposed to cutting back on spending.

The best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

All children, except one, grow up.

Sometimes, you like to let the hair do the talking!

When you touch me, good God.

When we die our entire legacy is simply the added together strengths of all the connections we make with others. This is the ghost of ourselves we leave behind. This is showing up.

For goodness sake, look at those cakes.

You can take care of yourself, and God helps those who help themselves.

The idea that we need to “pay our dues” is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap.

I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them.

She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.

Just always be waiting for me.

The six people you must find today... Someone to love. Someone to thank. Someone to be grateful for. Someone to forgive Someone to forget Someone to admire.

All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.

The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made into a fetish.

If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.

Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

Science always uses metaphor.

If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely over a coal burner. We simply have to lessen our consumption of fossil fuels.

Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth.

Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry

He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

We always ask where the time went. We never ask where it's coming from.

Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs.

Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.

If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?

I think all good narration contains an element of mystery and suspense. If it didn't, if the storyline were predictable, we would have no interest in reading it.

We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.

There can be no revival apart from the Holy Ghost; He is the author of every Heaven-sent movement.

Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.

He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.