No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon) — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness... — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There is no necessity for pain-why, then, is the worst pain reserved for those who will not accept its necessity?” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It goes only down to a certain point and then it stops. As long as there is that untouched point, it's not… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Don't think of them now. Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness--and somewhere within him, a drop of pain moving briefly… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She was seeing the brand of pain and fear on the faces of people, and the look of evasion that refuses to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“He watched the pain's unsummoned appearance with a cold, detached curiosity; he said to himself: Well, here it is again. He waited… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
