English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Ayn Rand Quotes

This is pity? he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.

Ayn Rand

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Aleister Crowley quote: "Happiness lies within oneself and the way to dig it out is..."
Happiness lies within oneself and the way to dig it out is cocaine- Aleister Crowley
The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs, at least not if you want them to listen to you. You can’t say that my interests are special compared to yours any more than you can say that the particular spot that I am standing on is a unique part of the universe because I happen to be standing on it that very minute. Steven Pinker
David Hare quote: "The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe."
The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe. David Hare
I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it. David Icke
William Shakespeare quote: "And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the..."
And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts. William Shakespeare
Havelock Ellis quote: "Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many..."
Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life. Havelock Ellis
We can fight the War on Terrorism in other places around the world or we can fight it here in America. The right choice is to fight those terrorists where they are. Randy Neugebauer
I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be. Frances McDormand
Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us. Mitt Romney
I read," I say. "I study and read. I bet I've read everything you read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM-drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it." My instincts concerning syntax and mechanics are better than your own, I can tell, with all due respect. But it transcends the mechanics. I'm not a machine. I feel and believe. I have opinions. Some of them are interesting. I could, if you'd let me, talk and talk. David Foster Wallace
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such. Ferdinand de Saussure
There is a great deal of advertising that is much better than the product. When that happens, all that the good advertising will do is put you out of business faster. Jerry Della Femina
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. W. Somerset Maugham
Tiger Woods quote: "I've exceeded a few of my goals, but I'm behind on a couple of..."
I've exceeded a few of my goals, but I'm behind on a couple of others. Tiger Woods
Jacques Lacan quote: "Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was;..."
Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there. Jacques Lacan