Ayn Rand Quotes
Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer-and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
Ayn Rand
Quotes to Explore
-
I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
Frances Bay
-
With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
Madison Marlow
-
I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
Jacki Weaver
-
All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
Malala Yousafzai
-
But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
Beatrice Dalle
-
I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
Ornette Coleman
-
I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
Vanessa Hudgens
-
Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
Yves Behar
-
The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
Warren Christopher
-
I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
Paige VanZant
-
As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
Patrick Modiano
-
When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
Beau Willimon
-
Back when Saddam Hussein was in power, the Americans didn't care about his crimes. When he was gassing the Kurds and gassing Iran, they didn't care about it. When oil was at stake, somehow, suddenly, things mattered.
Sam Richards
-
Colonial possessions added to the prestige, and to a much lesser degree to the wealth, of Europe. But the primary cause of Western affluence and power is internal – the institutions of science, democracy, and capitalism acting in concert.
Dinesh D'Souza
-
If we had created rules to automatically turn up the required down payment on a home when there's a housing bubble, or just say that the mortgage on a property cannot be larger than the value of the property three years ago, the amount of human misery that would've been avoided would've been enormous.
Bill Foster
-
Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
Abu Bakr
-
Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer-and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
Ayn Rand