“ She felt a bored indifference toward the immediate world around her...She took it as a regrettable accident, to be borne patiently for a while, that she happened to be imprisoned among people who were… Ayn Rand
“ They said you were hard and cold and unfeeling.But it’s true...I am, in the sense they mean—only have they ever told you in just what sense they mean it?What did they mean about you?Whenever anyone ac… Ayn Rand
“ No matter what night preceded it, she had never known a morning when she did not feel the rise of a quiet excitement that became a tightening energy in her body and a hunger for action in her mind—bec… Ayn Rand
“ You don’t have to see through the eyes of others, hold onto yours, stand on your own judgment, you know that what is, is—say it aloud, like the holiest of prayers, and don’t let anyone tell you otherw… Ayn Rand
“ You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip by, as others let it slip, into the senselessness of… Ayn Rand
“ We are those who do not disconnect the values of their minds from the actions of their bodies, those who do not leave their values to empty dreams, but bring them into existence, those who give materi… Ayn Rand
“ You always play it open, don’t you?” he asked.“I’ve never noticed you doing otherwise.”“I thought I was the only one who could afford to. Ayn Rand
“ The capacity for unclouded enjoyment, she thought, does not belong to irresponsible fools; an inviolate peace of spirit is not the achievement of a drifter; to be able to laugh like that is the end re… Ayn Rand
“ Well, whose opinion did you take?”“I don’t ask for opinions.”“What do you go by?”“Judgment.”“Well, whose judgment did you take?”“Mine.”“But whom did you consult about it?”“Nobody. Ayn Rand
“ She lay on her back, looking up at the sky, feeling no desire to move or think or know that there was any time beyond this moment. Ayn Rand
