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Life Is Quotes by Ayn Rand
- The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.
- You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island…
- That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.
- The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other…
- Through all the centuries of the worship of the mindless, whatever stagnation humanity chose to endure, whatever brutality to practice-it was only by the grace…
- All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal.
- The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.
- Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward…
- To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the…
- Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortu ne is not a mortgage on achievement-fai lure is not a mortgage on success-sufferi ng…
- We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.
- Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
- I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these…
- We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned…
- 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…
- The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation and…
- Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.
- If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it?
- The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in words; later, for…
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- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing… — Margaret Atwood
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius
- Our life is what our thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius
- Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. — Marcus Aurelius
- To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. — Marcus Aurelius
- Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a… — Sri Aurobindo