--- title: "8 Taggart Quotes By Ayn Rand" description: "8 Taggart quotes by Ayn Rand. Plus more from Ayn Rand and more Taggart sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/589/ayn-rand-59_detachment_she-watched-the-prairies-the-rivers-the_5627.jpg" --- > [She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-watched-the-prairies-the-rivers-the-towns-slipping-past-at-an/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/589/ayn-rand-59_detachment_she-watched-the-prairies-the-rivers-the_5627.jpg) > [“Who is John Galt?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/who-is-john-galt/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/449/ayn-rand-59_first-lines_who-is-john-galt-129994_129994.jpg) > [The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/the-three-of-them-set-out-every-morning-on-adventures-of-their-own/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd7/ayn-rand-59_adventure_the-three-of-them-set-out-every-morning_188474.jpg) > [She felt a board indifference toward the immediate world around her toward other children and adults alike. She took it as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-felt-a-board-indifference-toward-the-immediate-world-around-her/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b42/ayn-rand-59_accidents_she-felt-a-board-indifference-toward-the_1495183.jpg) > [There's something I want you to know,' said Cherryl, her voice taut and harsh, 'so that there won't be any pretending about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/there-s-something-i-want-you-to-know-said-cherryl-her-voice-taut-and/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a8/ayn-rand-59_done_there-s-something-i-want-you-to-know-sai_1820563.jpg) > [Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/don-t-ever-get-angry-at-a-man-for-stating-the-truth/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94b/ayn-rand-59_anger_don-t-ever-get-angry-at-a-man-for-statin_1943113.jpg) > [“I am, therefore I'll think.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/i-am-therefore-i-ll-think/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e8/ayn-rand-59_galt_i-am-therefore-i-ll-think-2987587_2987587.jpg) > [Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/do-it-first-and-feel-about-it-afterwards-dagny-taggart/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/771/ayn-rand-59_feel_do-it-first-and-feel-about-it-afterwards_3098737.jpg) ## More by Ayn Rand > [There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/there-are-no-white-lies-there-is-only-the-blackest-of-destruction-and/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-watched-the-prairies-the-rivers-the-towns-slipping-past-at-an/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/this-was-reality-she-thought-this-sense-of-clear-outlines-of-purpose/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/a-collective-mind-does-not-exist-it-is-merely-the-sum-of-endless/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/lobbying-is-the-activity-of-attempting-to-influence-legislation-by/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-moved-her-hand-and-let-it-rest-against-his-he-did-not-withdraw/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/this-miracle-of-me-is-mine-to-own-and-keep-and-mine-to-guard-and-mine/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/there-was-still-one-response-the-greatest-that-she-had-missed-she/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/inflation-is-not-caused-by-the-actions-of-private-citizens-but-by-the/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“We are fornicating in the sight of six billion people.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/we-are-fornicating-in-the-sight-of-six-billion-people/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-was-fifteen-when-it-occurred-to-her-for-the-first-time-that-women/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/fransisco-you-re-some-kind-of-very-high-nobility-aren-t-you-he/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/have-you-felt-it-too-have-you-seen-how-your-best-friends-love/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/every-coercive-monopoly-was-created-by-government-intervention-into/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/we-are-all-brothers-under-the-skin-and-i-for-one-would-be-willing-to/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/taggart/ayn-rand/#itemlist", "name": "8 Taggart Quotes By Ayn Rand", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ayn Rand" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-watched-the-prairies-the-rivers-the-towns-slipping-past-at-an/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/589/ayn-rand-59_detachment_she-watched-the-prairies-the-rivers-the_5627.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/589/ayn-rand-59_detachment_she-watched-the-prairies-the-rivers-the_5627.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/589/ayn-rand-59_detachment_she-watched-the-prairies-the-rivers-the_5627.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she…” — Ayn Rand", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Who is John Galt?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ayn Rand" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/who-is-john-galt/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/449/ayn-rand-59_first-lines_who-is-john-galt-129994_129994.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/449/ayn-rand-59_first-lines_who-is-john-galt-129994_129994.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/449/ayn-rand-59_first-lines_who-is-john-galt-129994_129994.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Who is John Galt?” — Ayn Rand", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. 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