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Single Quotes by Ayn Rand
- About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything…
- Your soul has a single basic function-the act of valuing.
- Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give up all desire…
- The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than…
- The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in single drops of…
- Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of…
- I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to…
- Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do…
- 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…
- You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed.
- Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at…
- Everything has strings leading to everything else. We're all so tied together. We're all in a net, the net is waiting, and we're pushed into…
- Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted;…
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- Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not… — Mary Kay Ash
- There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. — Isaac Asimov
- I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I… — David Attenborough
- We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of… — Marcus Aurelius
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a… — Jane Austen
- Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. — Jane Austen
- Pain is never permanent. — Teresa of Avila
- I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many… — Teresa of Avila