Ayn Rand Virtue Of Selfishness Quotes & Sayings

A vague soil spread and ready from which friendships would spring. — Ayn Rand

He'd taken all this weirdness and done the same thing I'd managed to do with it: take it in, feel crazy for a little bit, and then deal. — Rachel Hawkins

The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for the secretary of commerce's office, to bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn ... seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime. Surely civilization would collapse without such essential services. — Alan Bock

Telephone conversations are so inadequate, so lacking in expression and gesture and everything. — Jo Walton

Life is like a nice fresh batch of Swiss cheese. Note to self: savor the holes, too, like the spaces between musical notes. — Anne Lamott

Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector ... and miss. — Robert A. Heinlein

Appearances have very little to do with happiness. — George Eliot

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach. — Hermann Hesse

There is nothing more essential to getting a project off the ground than the underestimate. — Robert Breault

Look at me
a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you. — RuPaul

... secrecy adds a charm to an amour ... — Frederick Marryat

Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions. — Freya Stark