Randman Quotes & Sayings

How ballsy it was to just assume you know, with one glance, the things another person could live without. As if it was the same for everyone, that simple. — Sarah Dessen

The priest is the personification of falsehood. — Giuseppe Garibaldi

A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team. — Vivek Wadhwa

Libertarianism is neither of the left nor of the right. It is unique. It is sui generis. It is apart from left and right. The left right political spectrum simply has no room for libertarianism. Think of an equilateral triangle, with libertarianism at one corner, the left at a second corner and the right at the third corner. We are equally distant from both of those misbegotten political economic philosophies. No, better yet, think in terms of an isosceles triangle, with us at the top and the two of them at the bottom, indicating they have more in common with each other than with us. — Walter Block

I hold no mercy for my enemies because mercy is for suckers. — T.M. Goeglein

July 15, 1991

Nita: My mother was a paragon of our neighborhood, People always come up to us with hugs, saying "You have the most wonderful mother." l'd think. "Don't you see what's going on in this house?" To this day, if somehow even in jest raises their hand to me, I will do this (raises hands to protect face and cowers) I cringe. Then they look at me like, what's your probem? You don't get that from a great childhood. — Sarah E. Olson

Beautiful. "But if we get out of here and you're . . . uh . . . old and - " ugly - "sixty years old or something . . . — Mary Connealy

Who knows anybody? — Derek Kirk Kim

How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing. — Markus Zusak

Sometimes your instincts were wrong. Your body wants you to survive but sometimes there are more important things than just surviving. — Karina Halle

There is no right or wrong way to tell a story. You have to find your own way. You can get your idea from listening, looking, or imagining. Stories are everywhere. All you have to do is pay attention. — Kate DiCamillo

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it. — Confucius

A tender heart unnerved by nothingness
hoards every fragment of the radiant past. — Charles Baudelaire

I was being musically mentored by a lot of people who were obviously more talented and skilled than I was, and I thought that I would just kind of learn the ropes of songwriting there - like how to do acoustic, country-esque songs, which I like because there's so much story in them. — Katy Perry

Later, lying in bed, I wonder if Dena knows about her father. I decide that she probably does, and I imagine how I would feel if I knew that my father was unfaithful to my mother.
Then I remember Richard, and I think that marriage might not mean much to Dena. I can't really blame her: She learned about marriage from her parents, just as I did from mine. For all I know, sleeping with Richard is just Dena's way of trying not to be her mother. — Melissa Bank