Ayn Rand Taxes Quotes & Sayings

I believe that a smile is the attribute of a positive attitude, both for yourself and the perception of others. — Jeffrey Gitomer

A BUSINESSMAN cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, He suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss.
A bureaucrat, forces you to obey his decisions, whether you agree with him or not ... If he makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; If he fails, He passes the loss on to you, in the form of heavier taxes. — Ayn Rand

I think it's a worthy undertaking
to provide a decent apartment for a man who earns fifteen dollars a week. But not at the expense of other men. Not if it raises the taxes, raises all the other rents and makes the man who earns forty live in a rat hole. — Ayn Rand

They moved me and scared me. I replayed the tapes and nailed the source of my fear. The women sounded smug. They were entrenched and content in their victimhood. — James Ellroy

Again, we run out after love, until when love has run out again. — Anthony Liccione

Rage is the opposite of thought, whoever has put you in this frame of mind has more control over you right now, than you have over yourself. If he is your opponent and you will face him today, you will be defeated. — Sister Souljah

One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true. — Isabelle Adjani

On these issues, the public fib. They say they want increased spending, and in theory they do - but in practice they think someone else should pay for it. However, there it is. As I used to say, the public aren't always logical, but that's their prerogative. They do expect their government to be, nonetheless. — Tony Blair

My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds. — Annie Leibovitz

Libertarians: Never got over the fact they weren't the illegitimate children of Robert Heinlein and Ayn Rand; currently punishing the rest of us for it. Unusually smug for a political philosophy that's never gotten anyone elected for anything above the local water board. All for legalized drugs and prostitution but probably wouldn't want their kids blowing strangers for crack; all for slashing taxes for nearly every social service but don't seem to understand why most people aren't at all keen to trade in even the minimal safety net the US provides for 55-gallon barrels of beans and rice, a crossbow and a first-aid kit in the basement. Blissfully clueless that Libertarianism is just great as long as it doesn't actually involve real live humans. Libertarians — John Scalzi

Let him live under the open sky, and dangerously. — Horace

Watch your world burn, light of my heart. Tomorrow we will find another one and burn that too. — E.K. Johnston

Jace stiffened, and for a moment Maia saw through the Daniel-like savage amusement to what was underneath, and it was dark and agonized and reminded her more of her own eyes in the mirror than of her brother's. — Cassandra Clare

Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down. — Jonathan Swift

Sometimes I can listen to music - sometimes there's no choice, especially if I'm out writing at a coffee place. But sometimes it's too distracting. If I'm listening to something I really love - I have to stop and give everything over to it. I'm listening to its structures, its melodic lines, the bass. It takes up too much of my head - in a good way. — Paul Lisicky

If you understand the desire of a blooming flower, you will be able to understand the meaning of life. — Debasish Mridha

It is an extraordinary thing but it is true, wars are only a means of publicising the things already accomplished. — Gertrude Stein