E.L. James Quotes

I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count so much as folks thought it did, colored or white, man or woman.

If there is a god, I think he has a sense of humour. He does not require human beings to protect him from satire.

tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.

Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

God'll send the bill to you.

Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.

Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.

There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.

Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie.

A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.

The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

If you have fun and keep a good attitude, people want to work with you.

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.

After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.

Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.

The sole equality on earth is death.

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.

I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.

I think fear is one of the natural states of most actors, to be honest.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

Patriotism is the religion of hell.

However British you may be, I am more British still.

If two people believe in the same story, they might be thousands of miles apart and total strangers, but they still have a sense they can trust each other.

All political power is a trust.

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.

I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a competitive sport.

English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.

Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.