Elbert Hubbard Quotes

Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.

Elbert Hubbard

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• I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Great
  • Success
  • Road

• I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • God
  • Believe
  • Heart

• Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Feelings
  • Say
  • Texas

• I just want to do my job.

  

  Ma Long
  • Job
  • Want
  • Just

• In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Work
  • Hope
  • You

• The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Money
  • American
  • Authority

• Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Me

• If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Books
  • Television
  • Scared

• I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Think
  • Slavery
  • Old

• I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those guys won - guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys. Those guys have been there, so there's a lot that they can teach the guys.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Think

• I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Up
  • Family
  • Father

• Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Song
  • Words
  • Tears

• When I was about 12, I was studying Chinese and ballet with my brother, and one morning Jonathan said to me, 'I don't think I'm going to go to ballet class anymore,' and I looked at him and said, 'You know, I don't think I'm going to go to Chinese class anymore.'

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Me
  • Morning
  • Brother

• Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Important
  • Live
  • May

• I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Politics
  • Loved
  • Politicians

• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Beginning
  • Conflict

• Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Jesus
  • Religion
  • Him

• Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Children
  • Movie
  • motivation

• We can never totally return to the indefensible pre-1967 borders, ... We simply cannot afford to make Israel 14.48 km (9 miles) wide again at its center. We can't allow the Palestinians to be a couple of [miles] from [Tel Aviv's] Ben-Gurion Airport in the age of shoulder-fire missiles with the capacity to shoot down jumbo jets. But that doesn't mean we must remain in every corner of the West Bank or in Gaza, where fewer than 10,000 Jews, living next to 1.3 million Palestinians, have been protected by twice as many soldiers.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Age
  • Couple
  • Fire

• Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow.

  

  Corliss Lamont
  • Men
  • Free
  • Feeling

• I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.

  

  Oswald Mosley

• I regret that I have only a little bit of pocket lint to give to my country.

  

  Nathan Hale
  • Country
  • Regret
  • Pocket

• I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

  

  George Andrew Olah
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Men
  • Death
  • Fate