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Before Quotes by Ayn Rand
- Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary.…
- If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose . . . the fact that they were the people who…
- Creation comes before distribution -- or there will be nothing to distribute.
- What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is…
- Whether it’s a symphony or a coal mine, all work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from an inviolate capacity…
- If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society-you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only…
- Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the…
- There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to achieve the best…
- The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found…
- Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is…
- These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the last time. I…
- Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is…
- She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an enormous…
- It was beautiful and rare, and you have every right to despise me." She stood pressed to the wall, not moving. "When you came in,…
More Before Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it? — Arthur Ashe
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood