E.L. James Quotes

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely. Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into my hot fried-chicken sandwich? You betcha.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.

Whether you realize it or not, your ongoing battle with unbelief drives all your sinful thoughts, emotions, desires, and actions.

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

What is interesting, as well, is how much power homicide detectives have and how much respect. They are kind of rock stars, especially in New York. There are not that many of them.

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.

Exchange ideas frequently.

You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.

Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.

...The human perception of this energy first begins with a heightened sensitivity to beauty.

Don't ascribe to evil what can be attributed to well-intentioned stupidity.

Nothing in life has any business being perfect.

In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.

A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

Mothers always think their children are prettier than they really are, and mine has always told me I look like Tom Cruise.

I don't have a computer - I don't like to get into it that much 'cause it can screw with your head a little.

There's just been a couple of moments where - we did the one [ Carpool Karaoke] with Justin Bieber, which kind of went crazy and I think is at, like 65 million views on YouTube .

I'm just getting to know myself. I'm no wherwhere near to being concise about it yet. I can't define myself. Wait a minute - I'm angry, I'm funny and I'm trying.

I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar

I love anybody who has convictions enough to make mistakes because only people who make mistakes get into enough trouble to be called drama, I think.

It would be cool to be invisible, but I'm afraid of what people would say about me if they didn't know I was there. Some things are better left unknown.

If you're lucky enough to pick what you do, that's the greatest career you can have. Ultimately, that's my goal: to have choices.

I have seen many a bear led by a man: but I never before saw a man led by a bear.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.

If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.

Testing is the process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous, so as to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

Heroes aren't born, they're cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.

The connection between authors, printers, and booksellers must be kept up.

Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.

Good cheese needs good companions.

Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.

From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results.

A public debt is a public curse.

A democratic government that respects no limits on its power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was created to protect.

Never let the other fellow set the agenda.

The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate wherever the Government assumes a freer aspect,& the laws favor a subdivision of property.

There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives.