Elbert Hubbard Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
-
You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
-
Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
-
I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
-
I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
-
I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
-
Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
-
I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
-
I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.
-
Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
-
Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
-
Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
-
My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
-
Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
-
There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
-
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
-
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
-
I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
-
The Statist has constructed a Rube Goldberg array of laws and policies that have institutionalized his objectives. His success breeds confidence in the limitlessness of his endeavors.
-
I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.
-
Well, I believe in God. I taught Sunday school.
-
I love my parents, and I want my mother to be president.
-
Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.
-
It is only life and love that give love and life.
