Action Quote by Ayn Rand

“The strip of earthy, faintly visible outside the window, was running faster now, blending into a gray stream. Through the dry phrases of calculations…

— Ayn Rand

She was full of some strange energy that morning. Her every movement had purpose and life and she seemed to find satisfaction in every…

— Anna Godbersen

She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

— Jane Austen

she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.

— Anais Nin

This time, it was more of a thought than a feeling, a soft heat that began at her mouth and unfurled through the rest…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Every rational being she believed must have some purpose in life beyond mere pleasure for pleasure's sake. Enjoyment without settled principles, laudable purposes, mental…

— Lynne Withey

The world was full of beauty. She wanted to grab hold of it and take it down into her bones. Yet always it seemed…

— Sara Zarr

She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of phosphorescence, as…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.

— Liane Moriarty

She was able to feel active creation going on around her in the rocks and hills, where the mystery of lust took place; and…

— Christina Stead

“Imagination, she figured, just wasn’t up to the task of understanding unique and foreign sensations. It knew only how to dampen or augment what…

— Hugh Howey