E.L. James Quotes
The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies.
Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.
One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.
The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.
To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.
Commitment cannot be taught; it can only be caught. I refer to the crusading spirit. Without the crusading spirit, you may have the starting power but not the staying power.
The people are the foundation of the nation. Our only chance for a lasting peace on earth: the release of the strength of the common man.
I must dedicate my life to teaching my people, for only education would make their lot less bitter, their latent power more strong.
Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?
In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
Drug addicts are so funny that way. Just spinning around, lost in their own little world. Doing so much, accomplishing so little. How sad.
This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.
You mean other than the wings? I once ate nine snicker bars in a row without barfing. It was a record.
And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.
I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it…My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.
To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.
The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.
He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.
Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.
There's nothing more toxic or deadly than a human child. A single touch could kill you.
Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.
