Ayn Rand Quote #1
...a tall, fragile woman with pale blond hair and a face of such beauty that it seemed veiled by distance, as if the artist had been merely able to suggest it, not to make it quite real...she was Kay Ludlow, the movie star who, once seen, could never be forgotten; the star who had retired and vanished five years ago, to be replaced by girls of indistinguishable names and interchangeable faces...she felt that the glass cafeteria was a cleaner use for Kay Ludlow’s beauty than a role in a picture glorifying the commonplace for possessing no glory.
Ayn Rand Quote #2
...dangers, to Francisco, were merely opportunities for another brilliant performance; there were no battles he could lose, no enemies to beat him.
Ayn Rand Quote #3
...didn’t you enjoy meeting the young men?”
“What men? There wasn’t a man there I couldn’t squash ten of.Ayn Rand Quote #4
...do you think any of these people are enjoying it? They’re just straining to be more senseless and aimless than usual. To be light and unimportant . . . You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.
Ayn Rand Quote #5
...he had acquired the conviction that one had to concern oneself with the rational, not the insane—that one had to seek that which was right, because the right answer always won—that the senseless, the wrong, the monstrously unjust could not work, could not succeed, could do nothing but defeat itself.
Ayn Rand Quote #6
...he had never known fear because, against any disaster, he had held the omnipotent cure of being able to act.
Ayn Rand Quote #7
...I don’t like people who try to say only what they think I think.
Ayn Rand Quote #8
...if ever you hear a man telling you that you must be happy, that it’s your natural right, that your first duty is to yourself—that will be the man who’s not after your soul.
Ayn Rand Quote #9
...Is it an inspiring sight to see a man commit a heroic gesture, and then learn that he goes to vaudeville shows for relaxation? Or see a man who’s painted a magnificent canvas—and learn that he spends his time sleeping with every slut he meets?”
“What do you want? Perfection?”
“—or nothing. So, you see, I take the nothing.Ayn Rand Quote #10
...it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year.
Ayn Rand Quote #11
...it was not the mockery of malice—it was the laughter of a salute.
Ayn Rand Quote #12
...it was that ruthless tone, peculiarly his, which sounded implacable by being simple, devoid of any emotional value, save the quality of respect for facts.
Ayn Rand Quote #13
...it was the security of being first, with full sight and full knowledge of one’s course—not the blind sense of being pulled into the unknown by some unknown power ahead. It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust, but to know.
Ayn Rand Quote #14
...one cannot deal with pure evil, with the naked, full-conscious evil that neither has nor seeks justification.
Ayn Rand Quote #15
...Opinion without a rational process.
Ayn Rand Quote #16
...she dismissed it with the thought that there were many kinds of work which were offensive, yet necessary, such as cleaning sewers; somebody had to do it, and Jim seemed to like it.
Ayn Rand Quote #17
...she had always looked for sparks of competence, like a diamond prospector in an unpromising wasteland.
Ayn Rand Quote #18
...she lay in bed, naked because her body had become an unfamiliar possession, too precious for the touch of a nightgown, because it gave her pleasure to feel naked and to feel as if the white sheets of her bed were touched by Francisco’s body—when she thought that she would not sleep, because she did not want to rest and lose the most wonderful exhaustion she had ever known...
Ayn Rand Quote #19
...she stood beside him, sagging in his arms, abandoning herself to anything he wished, in open acknowledgment of his power to reduce her to helplessness by the pleasure he had the power to give her.
Ayn Rand Quote #20
...she was suddenly as intently conscious of that particular moment, of herself and her own movement. She noticed her gray linen skirt, the rolled sleeve of her gray blouse and her naked arm reaching down for the paper. She felt her heart stop causelessly in the kind of gasp one feels in moments of anticipation.
Ayn Rand Quote #21
...the best is a matter of standards—and I set my own standards.
Ayn Rand Quote #22
...the informality of his posture, combined with the strict formality of his clothes, gave him an air of superlative elegance. His was the only face that had the carefree look and the brilliant smile proper to the enjoyment of a party; but his eyes seemed intentionally expressionless, holding no trace of gaiety, showing—like a warning signal—nothing but the activity of a heightened perceptiveness.
Ayn Rand Quote #23
...there can be no justification for a society in which a man is expected to manufacture the weapons for his own murderers.
Ayn Rand Quote #24
...there was no guilt in his face, no doubt, nothing but the calm of an inviolate self-confidence.
Ayn Rand Quote #25
...there’s nothing of any importance in life—except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It’s the only measure of human value.
Ayn Rand Quote #26
...they seemed wounded by anything he said, it was not a matter of his words or actions, it was almost . . . almost as if they were wounded by the mere fact of his being.
Ayn Rand Quote #27
...they want us to pretend that we see the world as they pretend they see it. They need some sort of sanction from us.
Ayn Rand Quote #28
...this sense of eagerness, of hope and of secret excitement. It was as if normal existence were a photograph of shapeless things in badly printed colors, but this was a sketch done in a few sharp strokes that made things seem clean, important—and worth doing.
Ayn Rand Quote #29
...this was the simple essence of his universe: the instantaneous refusal to submit to disaster, the irresistible drive to fight it, the triumphant feeling of his own ability to win.
Ayn Rand Quote #30
...were she lying crushed under the ruins of a building, were she torn by the bomb of an air raid, so long as she was still in existence she would know that action is man’s foremost obligation, regardless of anything he feels...
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