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

She stood at the window, her arms spread wide, holding on to each side of the frame, it was as if she held a piece of the city.

Ayn Rand

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong. William Scranton
Aldous Huxley quote: "What fun it would be if one didn't have to think about..."
What fun it would be if one didn't have to think about happiness!" - From Brave New World Aldous Huxley
Mitch Hedberg quote: "I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it."
I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it. Mitch Hedberg
Voltaire quote: "I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person"
I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person Voltaire
Taylor Swift quote: "Just close your eyes. You'll be alright. . . You and I are..."
Just close your eyes. You'll be alright. . . You and I are Safe&Sound Taylor Swift
Emile M. Cioran quote: "God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies..."
God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays. Emile M. Cioran
Andrea Arnold quote: "I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the..."
I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying. Andrea Arnold
Life, if you know how to use it, is long; but…many, following no fixed aim, shifting and… dissatisfied, are plunged by their fickleness into plans that are ever new; some have no fixed principle by which to direct their course. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity. Kenzaburo Oe
How good it would be to know where to look for help in this life and what to expect after it, there, beyond the grave! How happy and calm I'd be, if I could say now: Lord, have mercy on me! ... But to whom shall I say it? Either it is an indefinable, unfathomable power, which I not only cannot address, but which I cannot express in words - the great all or nothing...or it is that God of whom Princess Marya has sewn in here, in this amulet? Nothing, nothing is certain, except the... Leo Tolstoy
Gore Vidal quote: "How hungrily we read about ourselves!"
How hungrily we read about ourselves! Gore Vidal
Gael Garcia Bernal quote: "I want to do work, but I also want to have a good time."
I want to do work, but I also want to have a good time. Gael Garcia Bernal
When _I_ use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'itmeans just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less. Lewis Carroll
It's perpetual motion; the thing man wanted to invent but never did. . . . It's a mystery. . . . Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences . . . clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later. Antibiotic, aesthetic, practical. Ray Bradbury
Rumi quote: "When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become..."
When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. Rumi