Ayn Rand Quotes
All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.
Quotes to Explore
-
The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
-
People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
-
Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
-
My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
-
Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
-
Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
-
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
-
Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
-
I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
-
I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.
-
Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us.
-
If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
-
If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
-
When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.
-
As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day.
-
I said from the very beginning, I don't want a big house, I don't want big grounds, I don't want the trouble with the maintenance and all of that.
-
My first job on the radio was writing jokes for a Baltimore DJ called Johnny Walker, who was sort of a '70s era shock jock who all the teenage boys listened to in my school.
-
I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.
-
As a Canadian it's something you grow up with. Where I'm from in Canada the ground usually freezes in late October and the lake is frozen until late March. We learn to skate at a young age and I learned to skate when I was three. I was on an outdoor rink when I was three-years-old.
-
Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
-
There is a conspiracy to do us in. Why?... They see us as a threat to the rest of Singapore.
-
Don't give up - our country needs you now more than ever. This is a pivotal moment in the history of our country: Our ideals are at stake, and we all have to fight for who we are. We are all, and should be treated as, equals, but the disparity in terms of income and inequality, for women and women of color, is significant.
-
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
-
All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.
