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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9264d63 | Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: "I'll do as I please at everybody else's expense." An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man--his own and those of others." -- | Ayn Rand | ||
| 1c28b0b | And I wish I had the power to tell tem that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope. For the battle they lost can never be lost. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 50e2041 | For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind. | Ayn Rand | ||
| ca1b752 | But it has occurred to me, on occasion, that our memories of our loved ones might not be the point. Maybe the point is their memories--all that they take away with them. | Anne Tyler | ||
| aa46831 | She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an enormous void, the void of a city and of a continent, where she would never be able to find the man whom she had no right to seek. | Ayn Rand | ||
| d1fd502 | The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in words; later, for those who heard them, but first for the one who found them; a healing power, a solution, like the breaking of a barrier. He thought, perhaps the basic secret the scientists have not discovered, the first fount of life, is that which happens when a thought takes shape in words. | words power-of-words writing-process | Ayn Rand | |
| e4e922c | Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: | Ayn Rand | ||
| 5ff2d64 | Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes. | racism | Ayn Rand | |
| 6ebf6b7 | You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love you'd want to be broken, trampled, dominated, because that's the impossible, the inconceivable for you in your relations with people. That would be the one gift, the great exception you'd want to offer the man you loved. But it wouldn't be easy for you. | Ayn Rand | ||
| f00a2f4 | I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries. | doubt truth minority-opinion subversion oppression | Ayn Rand | |
| baaf609 | I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned. I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love.. | love individual pride | Ayn Rand | |
| 6236e23 | Did it ever occur to you," asked Kira, "that I may be here for the very unusual, unnatural reason of wanting to learn a work I like only because I like it?" | Ayn Rand | ||
| 23cba42 | I like to receive money for my work. But I can pass that up this time. I like to have people know my work is done by me. But I can pass that up. I like to have tenants made happy by my work. But that doesn't matter too much. The only thing that matters, my goal, my reward, my beginning, my end is the work itself. My work done my way. Peter, there's nothing in the world that you can offer me, except this. Offer me this and you can have anyth.. | Ayn Rand | ||
| fd2adb3 | but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 958735c | The respectable family that supports worthless relatives or covers up their crimes in order to "protect the family name"(as if the moral stature of one man could be damaged by the actions of another) -the bum who boasts that his great-grandfather was an empire-builder, or the small-town spinster who boasts that her maternal great-uncle was a state senator and her third cousin gave a concert at carnegie hall (as if the achievement of one man.. | samples | Ayn Rand | |
| 001572e | It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which hear, and the hearing of my ears gives its song to the world. It is my mind which thinks, and the judgment of my mind is the only searchlight that can find the truth. It is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect. | Ayn Rand | ||
| 6feb579 | He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind. | reading | Ayn Rand | |
| e6486e2 | I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet. | Ayn Rand | ||
| e254b6f | I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love my work, my mills, my Metal, my hours at a desk, at a furnace, in a laboratory, in an ore mine, as I love my ability to work, as I love the act of sight and knowledge, as I love the action of my mind when it solves a chemical equation or grasps a sunrise, as I love the things I've made and the things I've felt, as *my* product, as *my* .. | Ayn Rand | ||
| d146eed | You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself. | Ayn Rand | ||
| e843cd9 | It makes you wonder why we bother accumulating, accumulating, when we know from earliest childhood how it's all going to end. | Anne Tyler | ||
| 5a5f979 | In addition, if a person makes the error of identifying self with his work (rather than with the internal virtues that make the work possible), if self-esteem is tied primarily to accomplishments, success, income, or being a good family provider, the danger is that economic circumstances beyond the individual's control may lead to the failure of the business or the loss of a job, flinging him into depression or acute demoralization. | Nathaniel Branden | ||
| 49e517f | Fail often, fail fast, | Donald A. Norman | ||
| 4733bee | Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195 | man-vs-nature | Robert Harris | |
| 8b37dec | Everybody wants a little bit of land, not much. Jus' som'thin' that was his. Som'thin' he could live on and there couldn't nobody throw him off of it. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 0eade7c | Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 4b7eea6 | Hazel grew up - did four years in grammar school, four years in reform school, and didn't learn a thing in either place. Reform schools are supposed to teach viciousness and criminality but Hazel didn't pay enough attention. | John Steinbeck | ||
| cadd0e5 | Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 383599b | In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 8c38212 | With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 1cb590d | The story was gradually taking shape. Pilon liked it this way. It ruined a story to have it all come out quickly. The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer's own experience. | John Steinbeck | ||
| a2c5cf9 | It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is as white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leporous. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 93d30e2 | The tide goes out imperceptibly. The boulders show and seem to rise up and the ocean recedes leaving little pools, leaving wet weed and moss and sponge, iridescence and brown and blue and China red. On the bottoms lie the incredible refuse of the sea, shells broken and chipped and bits of skeleton, claws, the whole sea bottom a fantastic cemetery on which the living scamper and scramble. | John Steinbeck | ||
| edd9163 | No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 3bd754a | On neighbors looking over his camper:] I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation--a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any here... nearly every American hungers to move. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 886a9d2 | We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerors. Possibly it feels good to these men to be superior to animals, but it does seem that if they were sure of it they would not have to prove it. Often a man who is afraid must constantly demonstrate his courage and, in the case of the hunter, must keep a tangible record of his courage. For ourselves, we have had mounted in a small har.. | trophy hunting | John Steinbeck | |
| 1a61755 | Some day, his mind said, that boy would know what things were in the books and what things were not. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 41c54bb | And because they were in some way one thing and one purpose, she smiled with him. And they began this day with hope. | one | John Steinbeck | |
| 4f5d07e | I guess we're all, or most of us, the wards of that nineteenth-century science which denied existence to anything it could not measure or explain. The things we couldn't explain went right on but surely not with our blessing. We did not see what we couldn't explain, and meanwhile a great part of the world was abandoned to children, insane people, fools, and mystics, who were more interested in what is than in why it is. So many old and love.. | reason reality science john-steinbeck the-winter-of-our-discontent | John Steinbeck | |
| 00ec24d | I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir, but I do have a choice of how I do it. | John Steinbeck | ||
| 9002331 | used to think that intelligence came from books and knowledge and rational thought. But that's not intelligence: It's just information and interpretation. Real intelligence is when your mind and your heart connect. That's when you see the truth so clearly and unmistakably that you don't have to think about it. In fact, all thinking will do is lead you away from the truth and soon you'll be back in your head, groping with a penlight in the d.. | Neil Strauss | ||
| d8ad574 | That's when I started to leave it behind. I realized that I got my entire validation from women. Women became like gods to me, but false gods. | Neil Strauss | ||
| c12e1d3 | Love is when two (or more) hearts build a safe emotional, mental, and spiritual home that will stand strong no matter how much anyone changes on the inside or the outside. It demands only one things and expects only one thing: that each person be his or her own true self. | love | Neil Strauss | |
| 961d9e8 | When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom. | stone water | Arthur Golden |