Andrew Ryan Bioshock Quotes & Sayings

The underwater businessman philosopher Andrew Ryan was BioShock's unforgettable villain. — Tom Bissell

Capitalists don't want free trade any more than they want whooping cough. Their nature is to conglomerate, homogenate, vertically integrate and dominate until there is no competition. The rules? Screw the rules! They'll rig the game, spit on the ball, bribe the refs, tilt the playing field, pork the cheerleaders and kick free enterprise in the nuts. — Tim Dorsey

It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time. — Theodore Roosevelt

All I wanted to do was to follow my passion and tell a good story. — David Lagercrantz

Sometimes what I'm looking for is the thing that will help renew people's interest in a writer that they may have written off as not their kind of writer. — John D'Agata

A man chooses...a slave obeys. — Andrew Ryan

Bands that say they don't care about how their records sell are liars. — Brandon Flowers

Even in a book of lies sometimes you find truth. There is indeed a season for all things and now that I see you flesh-to-flesh and blood-to-blood I know I cannot raise my hand against you. But know this, you are my greatest disappointment. Does your master hear me? Atlas! You can kill me, but you will never have my city. My strength is not in steel and fire, that is what the parasites will never understand. A season for all things! A time to live and a time to die, a time to build ... and a time to destroy! — Andrew Ryan

There's two ways to deal with mystery: uncover it, or eliminate it. — Andrew Ryan

Many governments are giving subsidies to fossil fuel production and consumption that encourage greenhouse gas emissions, at the same time as they are spending on projects to promote clean energy. This is a wasteful use of scarce budget resources. — Jose Angel Gurria

At 12 years old in the dangerous world that I was in, with a very difficult home life, I found the stage was the safest place to be. It was predetermined and predictable - and furthermore you got to be someone else. All the problems only began when you left the building. — Patrick Stewart

I am Andrew Ryan, and I'm here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No!' says the man in Washington, 'It belongs to the poor.' 'No!' says the man in the Vatican, 'It belongs to God.' 'No!' says the man in Moscow, 'It belongs to everyone.' I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose ... Rapture, a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, Where the great would not be constrained by the small! And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well. — Andrew Ryan

Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways. — Rachel Naomi Remen

It is becoming clear that many diseases - especially cancer - are highly complex and may respond better to a multi-drug approach which targets many different aspects of a disease process. — Eva Vertes

Do not withhold good from those who deserve it when it's in your power to help them. - PROVERBS 3:27 (NLT) — Guideposts Books

It was not the mask I was afraid of ... but of what lay behind the mask. The eternal source of all fear, all horror, all real evil, man himself — John Fowles

She puts on her poker face; I don't have any extra faces to put on, just the normal Craig face. — Ned Vizzini

Though at this moment she felt abused, abandoned, and ashamed of herself, Madeleine knew that she was still young, that she had her whole life ahead of her
a life in which, if she persevered, she might do something special
and that part of persevering meant getting past moments just like this one, when people made you feel small, unlovable, and took away your confidence. — Jeffrey Eugenides

John was great to work with, and a lot of fun. I wish I'd had the chance to make more music with him, of course, and to get to know him better. — Tony Levin

I'm twenty-four, it's a Friday night, and I'm waiting in for a take-out gyros and fries in my onesie. My life is just so exciting I can barely stand it. — Emma Hart