E.L. James Quotes

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

USA does such a great job sort of branding and packaging their shows and you know, they move and they sort of you got to keep up, you've really got to keep up with the train.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years?

Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.

There is something magnificent in having a country to love.

They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

Stern men with empires in their brains.

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out.

Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.

But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.

Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave.

For there's nothing we read of in torture's inventions, Like a well-meaning dunce, with the best of intentions.

Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then

Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and it becomes conservatism, whether it will or no.

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.

As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.

No rest for the wicked, no peace for the good.

The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate

The countries that have collected the most development aid are also the ones that are in the worst shape. Despite the billions that have poured in to Africa, the continent remains poor.

Death lays his icy hand on kings.

Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.

America is now a space-faring nation. a frontier good for millions of years. The only time remotely comparable was when Columbus discovered a whole new world.

Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that.

The first perk of theatre is the girls.

The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.

I hear a sudden cry of pain! There is a rabbit in a snare.

I'd like to do Harvey again. I did it two years ago with Helen Hayes in New York. It was a joy. I was so glad to do it again because I never thought I did it right the first time.

The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues.

Breaking tasks down into smaller sub-tasks can be very useful.

I think there is clearly a connection between free time and procrastination. The more you have of the former, all things being equal, the more likely you are to procrastinate.

But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterrent to corporate malfeasance.

The fact that industries wax and wane is a reality of any economic system that wants to remain dynamic and responsive to people's changing tastes.

Procrastination also can be a way of self-handicapping: if you don't do a great job, you can always say to yourself, "If I'd only started sooner, I'd have been able to produce something excellent."

There ain't no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around