E.L. James Quotes

It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.

We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Technical know-how of the experts must be transformed into practical do-how of the people.

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.

The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.

Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.

Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world.

What do I like in a girl? I like a girl that likes me, a girl that knows how to smile and see the bright side of things. A girl that makes me a better person.

The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

Success is messy. But so is life. Deal with it. Poverty is messier.

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Ideas control the world.

He burst into the house and ate Grandma, an entirely valid course of action for a carnivore such as himself.

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.

The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.

Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.

My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.