E.L. James Quotes

Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.

I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it.

Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy.

Freedom is whatever the president says it is, pending revision.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].

A penumbra of sombre dignity has descended over his reputation.

How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation?

The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

True wealth is not what you have, it's what you're left with with when all you have is gone.

Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.

A just government has no need for the clergy or the church.

No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.

Hiring quotas reduce efficiency.

Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.

Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.

People must have both their dreams and their dinners in this world, and when we go out of it we must take what we find. That is all.

When I started reciting my own poems in public, I worried that it would seem too theatrical, but now I find recitation very natural, because it allows me to address audiences directly.

Money will always turn up when there is a potential for profit.

In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles.

Worry not so much about other peoples morals but more about your own.

No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.

Truth [comes only] from those ... who cultivate their reason.

Adversity is a stimulus.

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the impossible, perfect words: the words that will hold my subject.

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

Life is adventure, not predicament.

The American people have come to rely on the government for their security. They will find out how incompetent the government is when they no longer have security.

My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.

I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

Acclaim is a distraction.

You might not think it now, but if you're one of God's children, you're going to figure it out by the end of your life God is good.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again.

The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

If you're wrong in the way you're right, you're wrong even if you're right.

I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us.

I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution.

Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.