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Great Quotes by Ayn Rand
- If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty.
- I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die protecting that which…
- Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without…
- But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into…
- Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must, if and the…
- This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel.
- I sat there beside him till morning - and as I watched his face in the starlight, then the first ray of the sun on…
- The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought…
- America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything 'noble and just,'…
- The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.
- Great men can't be ruled.
- Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles…
- We have come to see how great is the unexplored.
- Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had…
- And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot…
- I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours…
- Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see, I love you.…
- Hank, this is great." "Yes." He said it simply, openly. There was no flattered pleasure in his voice, and no modesty. This, she knew, was…
- We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for…
- When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from mine. He could…
- Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable front. He knows…
- I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy.…
More Great Quotes
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
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- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
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- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
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