Elbert Hubbard Quotes

To remain on earth you must be useful, otherwise Nature regards you as old metal, and is only watching for a chance to melt you over.

Elbert Hubbard

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• Do not suffer pain and torment without reason. Somebody All-Powerful and All-Compassionate owns everything. Rely on His Power and do not accuse His Compassion. Renounce grief and anxiety ad accept relief. Be rid of your troubles and find serenity.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Power
  • Pain
  • Powerful

• To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Growing
  • Football
  • Games

• I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Christian

• My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • God
  • Home

• I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Time
  • Language
  • Internet

• But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • High
  • Animal

• If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Business
  • Future
  • Simple

• It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Real
  • Political
  • Practice

• The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • City
  • Woman
  • Sex

• Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Great
  • Chinese
  • Asset

• If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • Great
  • Attitude
  • Fat

• It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Life
  • Wise

• Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a long memory - they said no and Bill Gates said yes.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Long
  • Memory
  • Apple

• I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.

  

  Tagg Romney
  • Job
  • Dad
  • Effective

• I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Thought
  • Lose
  • Speech

• Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Politics

• If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it's worth every penny.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Good
  • Great
  • Feeling

• You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • People
  • Happy
  • Learn

• Among the innumerable Footsteps of Divine Providence to be found in the Works of Nature, there is a very remarkable one to be observed in the exact Balance that is maintained, between the Numbers of Men and Women; for by this means it is provided, that the Species may never fail, nor perish, since every Male may have its Female, and of a proportionable Age.

  

  John Arbuthnot
  • Men
  • Age
  • Mean

• Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine?

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Nature

• In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Life
  • Age
  • Earth

• Mo: Ginger, how can you think about sex at a time like this? Madmen are about to destroy the earth!Ginger: Can you think of a better time? I don't know about you, girl, but I want to have a G-spot orgasm before Armageddon hits.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Time
  • Earth
  • Girl

• Doesn't assuming that an intelligence created these perfect conditions require far less faith than believing that a life-sustaining Earth just happened to beat the inconceivable odds to come into being?

  

  Eric Metaxas
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Faith

• To remain on earth you must be useful, otherwise Nature regards you as old metal, and is only watching for a chance to melt you over.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Nature
  • Earth