Ayn Rand Quotes

Never initiate the use of force against another man. Never let his use of force against you remain unanswered by force.

Ayn Rand

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• Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.

  

  Patrick White
  • School
  • Myself
  • London

• Like anything else, acting can become boring - a chore, really - if there isn't any challenge. And I like taking challenges. Just when people think they have me figured out, I like to surprise them.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Challenge
  • Challenges

• The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Way
  • Play
  • Best

• I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.

  

  Kate Burton
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Space
  • Ship
  • Captain

• In the '80s and '90s, China went through a giant change. It needed all resources. At the time, I was in the recycled paper business, and I realized the China market was a blank slate.

  

  Zhang Yin
  • Time
  • Business
  • Change

• Fame is a dangerous thing. It's what the post-industrial society wants. They want fame and many followers on Twitter. But to really make the world understandable, that challenge is remaining.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Society
  • Challenge

• I was always an independent, even when I had partners.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Always
  • Independent
  • Even

• I sleep completely naked to make me believe you are here, but when I wake up it is not the same thing. Most of all, don't deceive me with other women any more.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Women

• Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Real
  • Health
  • Care

• 'I’m not a demagogue.''That’s too bad. That leaves the field to people who are demagogues-to the Jarrets of the world. And there have always been Jarrets. Probably there always will be.'

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• Circumstances will determine what I term the survival value of humankind’s moral compass. Being highly moral in an immoral environment will almost certainly be detrimental to one’s survival and vice versa.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Value
  • Environment
  • Moral

• No I didn't ban the press. The press banned me. In later years in the blossom of my career, some editors got across to me and said they wanted me in their mags because the readers wanted me. But I refused because it wasn't me who started the war.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • War
  • Career

• Margaret Sanger: Oh, John you do ask hard questions. I should think, that instead of being impractical, it is really very practical and intelligent and humane.

  

  Margaret Sanger
  • Intelligent

• Heckler: I'll have your babies!!

  

  Bo Burnham

• Looks didn’t last forever and she wasn’t ready for religion yet. Money was kind of a good compromise, staked up somewhere between cosmetics and eternity.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Up
  • Good
  • Money

• The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

  

  Emily Greene Balch
  • Future

• I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and ran my stories past them. After about three years, I tackled my first novel, Subterranean. It took me 11 months to write.

  

  James Rollins
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Past

• You cannot keep up a nightlife and amount to anything in the day. You cannot indulge in those foods and liquors that destroy the physique and still hope to have a physique that functions with the minimum of destruction to itself. A candle burnt at both ends may shed a brighter light, but the darkness that follows is for a longer time.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Light
  • Darkness
  • Destroy

• I never wanted to start a band to sound like Nirvana.

  

  Paul Banks Interpol
  • Band
  • Sound
  • Wanted

• It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Truth
  • Errors
  • Adventures

• I shoot swimsuits and lingerie all the time, so I want to make sure I'm in the best shape. It makes me want to work out harder than usual.

  

  Sara Sampaio
  • Work
  • Shape
  • Shoot

• The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably yet quietly, she seemed like the champion of the rights of sleepers, like one of those spectral presences which rise in twilight in woods made of sky and branches. The solitary traveler, haunter of lanes, disturber of ferns, and devastator of hemlock plants, looking up, suddenly sees the giant figure at the end of the ride.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Moving
  • Champion
  • Twilight

• Never initiate the use of force against another man. Never let his use of force against you remain unanswered by force.

  

  Ayn Rand