E.L. James Quotes

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.

Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.

I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she had the right sensibility and that she could figure it [The Adderall Diaries] out.

The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience.

Love is the spirit of life, and makes all things live.

Conscience is the root of all true courage.

All the strength and force of man come from his faith in things unseen.

Religion is life, philosophy is thought; religion looks up, friendship looks in. We need both thought and life, and we need that the two shall be in harmony.

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament.

The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box.

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

The Sopranos all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.

I just don't think I'm that interesting. I don't think what I have to say is that interesting. To hear me go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, who... cares?

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

Cause my wife gets up and goes shopping.

Treat employees like they make a difference and they will

Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.

A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.

I believe that there is an important kernel of truth in the idea that financial errors recur every other generation.

Thinking that everything is going to come together in a perfect way is not necessarily the way it's going to happen.

Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us.

...the global surface albedo [surface whiteness] and greenhouse gas changes account for practically the entire global climate change.

History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.

Religion gives you a sense of certainty. It makes you feel that you have the right answers to really big questions and that youve grasped the truth.

Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.

I was pretty quiet as a child.

I wanted to make noise, not study theory.

My whole life was duality: Here's my life at home, here's my life on the road.

Metallica is a wonderful key to have on my key ring. I can go anywhere - it's great.

Metallica is the world to me - it always has been, and that's not going to change. I'm married to Metallica.

Aptitude can show calling, but it isn't the only indicator. Ineptitude or dysfunction may reveal calling more than talent, curiously enough.

I tend to think that you fulfill your own destiny, whether you realize it or not.

I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.

Each morning, we return from the dream soul trying to adjust to the day world, that moment when the two souls exchange places in the driver’s seat.

I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness.

Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.

Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us.

It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.

I see happiness as a by-product. I don't think you can pursue happiness. I think that phrase is one of the very few mistakes the Founding Fathers made

I'm cautious about a lot of words

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.

I love my football club. I love Essendon, I've always been apart of it and I want to be part of it going forward.

What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?

O, love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a poor body Gang about his biziness!

Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow?