Ayn Rand Quotes

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Ayn Rand

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: russian
  • Birth: February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982

Topics

LivePowerMenGovernmentImpossible

Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when she could go out with someone who's successful.

John Leguizamo

DaughterSomeoneLoserGoWantShe

What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.

Max Beckmann

ArtMeQuestionsYouPlaySome

The finest chroniclers of the great and the near-great have often been courtiers - the Duc de Saint-Simon, for instance, or Lady Murasaki.

Robert Gottlieb

GreatLadyBeenFinestOften

Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case he was never alive, it being unlikely that he died of old age.

John Ralston Saul

GodAgeOld AgeAliveDeadNever

I started to let go and seeing that there are no rules.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

SeeingRulesGoLet GoStarted

I love playing characters that are strong, when there's physicality involved.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

LoveStrongPlayingInvolvedI Love

When I was playing for Nacional in Montevideo, the players who lived outside the city would be given money by the club to get there and back on the bus.

Luis Suarez

MoneyCityBackOutsideClubBus

I'm a sprinter man. We don't jog; we don't walk. It's full-out. It's big engines. You don't take a car that has 600 horsepower for a cross-country drive.

Donovan Bailey

CarWalkManDriveYouBig

In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option.

Douglas Alexander

AgeWorldGrowingUnderstandSimply

Don't ask me to put up a shelf, but I love engineering.

Bruce Dickinson

LoveMeEngineeringAskUpShelf

The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all.

Arundhati Roy

WorldChristianSameSideAgainst

We weren't built to fly. We can do it, but we shouldn't be surprised if it feels a little unnatural.

Picabo Street

FlyLittleSurprisedBuiltWere

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